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Senior Tories turn on Rishi Sunak over failure to get a grip on election betting scandal

Rishi Sunak has been urged to suspend all those under investigation for placing bets on the date of the election – amid claims that more top Tories will be implicated after party data chief becomes fourth to be accused

The Independent UK

Starmer’s growth plan ‘doomed’ without access to EU markets, warn economists

Labour leader told if elected he will have to rejoin the customs union to meet party’s manifesto pledges, while 56% of voters say Brexit was bad for economy

The Guardian - UK

Gambling watchdog looks into second Tory candidate over alleged election bet

Party urged to suspend Laura Saunders, whose husband – the party’s director of campaigns – is also reportedly being looked at

The Guardian - UK

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Campaigners hope Labour will scrap two-child benefit cap once in No 10

Manifesto has no pledge to reverse rule Angela Rayner has said is ‘inhumane’ but there have been hints at more to come

The Guardian - UK

Campaign catchup: A rabbit-free manifesto, a So Solid revival, and David Cameron’s mum

In today’s newsletter: Why Labour is making a virtue of a policy programme bereft of new ideas

The Guardian - UK

Protester interrupts Keir Starmer’s Labour party manifesto launch speech

Keir Starmer says Labour is no longer a 'party of protest' in retort to heckler

Evening Standard

Inside the spin room: Behind the scenes of the first debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer

The Independent takes you behind the scenes in the so-called spin room where Labour and the Tories sought to convince the travelling press that it was their candidate that won it

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Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer go head-to-head in their first TV debate of 2024 election campaign

Personal attacks could feature as PM battles to erode the Labour leader’s huge poll lead

Evening Standard

Meet the top teams: the key election advisers to Sunak and Starmer

We look at the people who will strategise for the prime minister and opposition leader in the coming weeks

The Guardian - UK

Labour campaign chief can't name 'one Scottish-specific policy' in BBC interview

LABOUR’S national campaign coordinator has been accused of failing to “name a single specific Scottish policy” during his morning media round…

The National (Scotland)

UK politics: Starmer stands by pledges made when running for Labour leader – as it happened

Starmer tells Sky TV that of the commitments he made ‘the vast majority are in place, but I accept some have been adjusted’

The Guardian - UK

UK politics: government to appeal against ruling that blocks Rwanda deportations in Northern Ireland – as it happened

Rishi Sunak says Belfast judgment will not affect his plans and the Good Friday agreement should not be used to obstruct Westminster policy

The Guardian - UK

If Keir Starmer isn’t careful, Gaza could do for him what the Iraq war did for Blair

Many Muslim voters turned against Labour in the local elections, and the continuing conflict only heightens the risk of alienating others, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Labour to target south of England at general election, campaign chief says

Pat McFadden says local election results give the party confidence it can win ‘blue wall’ seats that are ‘turning red’

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Labour ‘working to get support back’ after losing votes over Gaza stance

Analysis shows almost 18% drop in party’s vote in areas of England where more than a fifth are Muslim

The Guardian - UK

Blackpool byelection shows Labour is back in Brexit-voting areas

Result indicates sizeable Westminster majority, while Sunak has failed to recover ground since taking over from Liz Truss

Evening Standard

Early warnings of Post Office scandal dismissed by Government in 2009, inquiry hears

Lord Arbuthnot raised concerns that postmasters may have been accused of fraud in December 2009

The Guardian - UK

Sunak rejects claim nurseries do not have capacity for free childcare plan

PM claims staffing levels have increased but says it will take time for the sector to grow

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The Guardian - UK

Twenty Labour councillors quit party in protest at leadership

Group in Lancashire claim national party ‘wants to control anything that any councillor wants to say’

The Guardian - UK

Is mild man Dowden up to the threat of China’s cyber campaign?

Deputy PM, who didn’t really sign up for this, seemed reluctant to declare war on a superpower

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak tells voters he is ‘absolutely’ committed to Rwanda during Q&A on GB News – as it happened

Prime minister faces one-hour grilling from voters following day of campaigning in Yorkshire

The Guardian - UK

‘The ultimate protest against Labour’: George Galloway’s bid to win Rochdale

Labour’s 9,668 majority in Greater Manchester seat challenged by Galloway’s Gaza-focused campaign

The Guardian - UK

Scuttling his flagship green policy, Sir Keir Starmer has imperilled his credibility

This sorry saga is not encouraging if it is a precedent for how Labour will handle the hard choices that it will face in government

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak’s wife gives up controversial stake in childcare firm

Akshata Murty gave her 1 per cent stake in the childcare agency to charity in order to let the company ‘focus on its work and grow’

Evening Standard

Labour claims questions remain as company owned by Sunak’s wife is closed

Senior Labour figure Pat McFadden raised questions about Catamaran Ventures UK, the investment company owned by Rishi Sunak’s wife Akshata Murty.

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