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The Lib Dems led the pack – on manifesto launch catering – and we finally learned the extent of the PM’s childhood deprivation

A YouGov poll has put Reform UK ahead of the Conservatives for the first time. After a terrible few weeks of election campaigning, the Tories are on 18% while Reform has edged ahead to 19%. The same poll gave Labour 37% and the Liberal Democrats 14%.

Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey’s spotlight on unpaid care and male caregiving has never been more necessary. In addition to photo ops at theme parks and falling into lakes, Davey has put out a more serious party election broadcast featuring his personal story of caring for his teenage son John,…

Since the first polls of the official election campaign came out earlier this month, there has been talk of Labour repeating its 1997 landslide.

His exit poll model has previously proved accurate, but ‘we will spend a lot of the day really worrying’, he says

“The problem with my dear fellow Tory MPs is they all think they’re Winston Churchill,” a weary Cabinet minister told me this week. “Every single one of them.” Like many in the Conservative Party now, the minister has given up hope over the general election result.

Professor Patrick Diamond, Director of the Mile End Institute, Queen Mary University of London, examines the two key documents

Speaking at the G7 summit in Italy the PM said there was plenty of time for a ‘comeback’ for the Tories

Shadow health secretary also slams ‘crocodile tears’ of private schools over Labour VAT plan