News Round-Up

“Who won the Sky News general election TV battle? Our writers give their verdicts” – Starmer faced scrutiny on his support for Corbyn. Sunak was grilled on his record. Tim Stanley, Tom Harris and Janet Daley give their verdicts in the Telegraph. Meanwhile, a YouGov poll says Starmer was the clear winner.
“Sunak blames lateness for TV interview on D-Day event that ‘ran over’” – Grant Shapps denies Prime Minister was ‘tone deaf’ on commemorations as leader also reveals he “went without Sky TV” as a child, reports the Telegraph.
“Rishi’s Sky TV blunder says more about class than cash” – The Prime Minister has once again show how out of touch he is with his Sky News comment, says Michael Hogan in the Telegraph.
“Starmer called out by Andrew Neil over claim he did not have Sky TV growing up” – The veteran broadcaster ridicules the Labour leader for claiming he didn’t have Sky TV as a child, given that he would have been 27 when the service was launched, according to the Telegraph.
“Rishi Sunak aide bet £100 on July election three days before it was announced” – Craig Williams MP, Sunak’s Parliamentary Private Secretary, who is seeking re-election in Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr, is under investigation by the Gambling Commission for betting £100 on a July election three days before his boss announced it.
“The Tories’ doomsday scenario is worse than they could’ve imagined” – The Lib Dems winning more seats than the Tories is now a real possibility, says Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph. Which will make Ed Davey’s mob the official opposition.
“Britain is heading for a populist tsunami far greater than anything seen in Europe” – In the Telegraph, Allister Heath says Labour’s coming supermajority will be the last hurrah of the failing, neo-Blairite political elite.
“I’m a Tory peer, and I’m dismayed by the Conservatives” – As the party heads for extinction, Dame Helena Morrissey in the Telegraph says the Tory high command’s incompetence is inexcusable.
“Labour VAT raid ‘could shut half of small prep schools within a year’” – Many of the 500 or so establishments catering for 200 or fewer pupils already operate on fine margins and could go bust if Labour sticks VAT on school fees, reports the Telegraph.
“The bankrupt Queen of the Third Way” – Travis Aaroe in UnHerd casts a withering eye over Rachel Reeves and Labour’s economic policy and predicts a catastrophe.
“It’s boom time for the lazy public sector – and we’ll all pay the price” – In the Telegraph, Matthew Lesh says the public sector will suck up even more money and perform even more poorly under a Labour government.
“Why Rishi Sunak can’t weaponise the ECHR” – The Tory manifesto claims a Conservative government would “stop illegal migrants bringing spurious legal challenges”. But leaving the EHRC is politically very difficult, says Alexander Horne in the Spectator, not least because it would jeopardise the Good Friday Agreement.
“Even worse than Greens’ awful manifesto is just how very boring they are” – The party is a repository of far-Left activists without any of the redeeming features of the Corbynistas, says Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
“Jeremy Hunt: My seat could be won on 1,500 votes or fewer” – The Chancellor is at risk of losing his seat to the Liberal Democrats, reports the Telegraph.
“Home Office offers Nigel Farage extra security after objects thrown at him” – the Reform U.K. leader has been attacked with a milkshake and wet cement during this General Election campaign and, as a result, has been offered additional security by the Home Office, says the Telegraph.
“Man charged after objects were thrown at Nigel Farage” – The man who threw cement at Farage has been charged with a criminal offence, according to the Telegraph.
“Attack on Nigel Farage is an ‘affront to democracy’, says Jo Cox charity” – A foundation set up in memory of a murdered Labour MP urges people to treat all election candidates with respect, reports the Telegraph.
“Half of voters think smaller parties should have fairer deal at elections” – A majority of Britons think our electoral system should be changed, according to polling expert Sir John Curtice, reports the Telegraph.
“Matt Hancock libelled Andrew Bridgen ‘to devastating extent’” – Andrew Brigden, the former North West Leicestershire MP, is bringing a libel case against Mr. Hancock for calling him “antisemitic“ after he quoted a cardiologist saying Covid vaccines were the biggest crime against humanity since the Holocaust, reports the Mail.
“My son died after the AstraZeneca vaccine gave him a blood clot” – MY lovely son, Adam Bounds, died from vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT) 11 days after receiving the AstraZeneca jab, Lesley Bounds tells the Mail. He was 41, fit and healthy.
“Father reveals partner’s last harrowing words before she was killed” – Scott Peden, 30, from Cambridge, lost his partner Gemma, 31, and their children Lilly, eight, and Oliver, four, during a blaze caused by an e-bike battery he had bought online, says the Mail.
“Dr Anne McCloskey jailed over Covid fine” – Anne McCloskey, a former doctor in Northern Ireland, has been jailed over her refusal to pay a Covid fine even though she’s standing as a candidate in Foyle in the upcoming Westminster election, reports the BBC.
“How Jacinda Ardern almost drove New Zealand to blackouts – and why Starmer should be worried” – The devastating impact of the oil and gas drilling ban in New Zealand casts doubt on the wisdom of Labour’s North Sea policy , according to the Telegraph.
“Labour must drop ‘unviable’ net zero plans, warns GMB” – The GMB trade union claims Keir Starmer’s clean power pledge will lead to “power cuts and blackouts”, reports the Telegraph.
“J.K. Rowling hits out at BBC over sports editor’s trans comments” – The gender-critical author says it was “utterly predictable” that the BBC should appoint Alex Kay-Jelski, who dismissed women’s concerns over transwomen being allowed to compete against biological women in women’s sports, as its new Director of Sport, according to the Telegraph.
“Germany is descending into chaos – and it will take the rest of the eurozone down with it” – A decade of catastrophic mistakes are coming back to haunt Europe’s former economic powerhouse, says Matthew Lynn in the Telegraph.
“Pope Francis repeats homophobic slur weeks after apology” – Pontiff reportedly says there is an “air of faggotry” inside the Vatican in reference to gay priests, according to the Telegraph.
“A new low for the W.H.O.” – Lockdown enthusiast Christopher Snowdon reconnects with his libertarian side and attacks a new WHO report written by hard Left public health loons on his Substack.
“I Went to Cover a Protest. I Was Surrounded by a Mob” – Olivia Reingold writes for the Free Press about being mobbed by a group of Pro-Palestinian protestors in New York after someone in the crowd identified her as a ‘Zionist’.
“Banning the office romance is a dystopian sign of a world gone mad” – BP’s edict that its employees must inform the board of any “intimate relationships” they have with their colleagues is deeply sinister, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
“Supreme Court considers turning First Amendment inside out” – The Supreme Court will soon issue rulings in two pivotal Big Tech disputes about free speech in which the U.S. Government and social media companies are arguing that the First Amendment protects their right to suppress other people’s speech, says the Washington Times.
“The Sky News audience laughs at Keir Starmer saying his dad was a toolmaker” – Watch the Sky News audience at last night’s debate laugh when the Labour leader tells them his dad was… wait for it… a toolmaker.

NEW: The Sky News audience laughs at Keir Starmer saying his dad was a toolmaker #BattleForNo10 pic.twitter.com/hK235EqFn5
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