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In today’s newsletter: What a poll showing Reform UK ahead of the Tories means – and what it doesn’t

In office, something very different will be required, but steady caution has brought Labour to the brink of power, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

We’re at around the midway point of the 2024 election campaign and the two main party leaders have undergone a grilling by Sky News. This was not a head-to-head debate but two separate interviews with Sky’s political editor Beth Rigby, followed by questions from the public.

The broadcaster, free of the paralysing attention focused on the BBC, has defined many of the moments on which July’s vote might hinge

The once defining issue in British politics has barely featured in this summer’s campaign

We look back through 14 years of Conservative manifestos at policies on net zero, energy, transport and more

Four in five Britons dissatisfied with how they are governed, with collapse blamed on Partygate, Brexit and poor services

Hartlepool was the site of Boris Johnson’s greatest victory in 2021 before his premiership fell apart

It would take a political genius to rescue the Tories now. Instead they have a leader more suited to churning out quarterly reports, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle