The Latest Breaking News from David Cameron

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 long read: Having created a watchdog for the environment, the government took its teeth out and muzzled it. Can public outrage rouse the Environment Agency to action?

The prime minister was condemned for skipping events to mark the 80th anniversary of the Allied landings to return home for a sit down with ITV

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

In today’s newsletter: Breaking down what was in the Tory manifesto, more items lobbed at the Reform leader, and a surprising defection in Scotland

Plans to fund adult care have been derided as a ‘dementia tax’ or a ‘death tax’. The carers I visited showed me that what they need is both urgent and simple, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Net migration is more than two and a half times the 2010 figure despite a string of Tory pledges to reduce it

Prime minister’s gaffe was a defining moment in his campaign symbolising a party that does not know what it stands for and has nothing to offer

Foreign secretary had brief video call with person claiming to be Petro Poroshenko, says Foreign Office

Lord Cameron became suspicious after exchanging text messages and ‘brief’ video call with someone purporting to be former President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko

Penny Mordaunt criticises absence as ‘completely wrong’ while internal party WhatsApp groups reportedly full of horrified responses