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HISTORICAL FACTS: 22 - Caught on Camera

David Cameron says Rishi Sunak aide’s bet on election date was ‘very foolish’

Minister condemns decision by election candidate Craig Williams to place bet days before snap poll announced

The Guardian - UK

Sunak and Starmer grilled in election interviews – four key issues assessed by experts

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 Conversation

Dirty waters: how the Environment Agency lost its way

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 Guardian - UK

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Sunak blames D-Day events ‘running over’ after turning up late to ITV interview he skipped event for

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

The Independent UK

From ‘hug a husky’ to ‘max out the oil’: the Tory environmental journey

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

The Guardian - UK

Campaign catchup: Conservative manifesto; Farage pelted again; Green candidate defects

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

The Guardian - UK

Social care is a timebomb beneath Britain – why does neither main party have a plan to tackle it?

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

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Immigration: how 14 years of Tory rule have changed Britain – in charts

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

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on D-day furore: Rishi Sunak is driving Tories over an electoral cliff edge

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

The Guardian - UK

David Cameron falls victim to hoax call from ‘former Ukraine president’

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

The Guardian - UK

Foreign Secretary David Cameron targeted in hoax video call with 'fake' former Ukrainian president

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

Evening Standard

Furious Tories turn on Rishi Sunak over D-day commemorations snub

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

The Guardian - UK

Campaign catchup: Sunak grovels, Labour teases, and a fiscal black hole awaits

In today’s newsletter: Zoe Williams recaps the worst day (yet) for the Conservative leader, and the rest of the day’s action on the campaign trail

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - The novel of the summer has reminded me: where did the politics of hope go?

Fourteen years ago, when David Cameron defeated Gordon Brown to usher in the new British age of chaotic, wayward Conservatism, I was still in my thirties. Watching first a sequence of divisions sewn into the country, on issues of genuine political consequence, then the factious, petty culture wars that nagged…

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France 24

British PM Rishi Sunak apologises for leaving D-Day ceremony early

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologized Friday for leaving D-Day commemorations in France early to return to the election campaign trail — a decision slammed as disgraceful by his political rivals.

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British PM Apologizes For Leaving D-Day Commemorations Early

British PM Rishi Sunak apologizes for leaving D-Day commemorations early, sparking criticism and disrupting election campaign.

International Business Times

UK's Sunak Apologises For Skipping Main D-Day Event

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak apologised on Friday for leaving the D-Day commemorations in France early to give a domestic television interview, the latest self-inflicted setback to his stuttering general election campaign.

Al Jazeera

UK’s Sunak apologises for leaving D-Day event early for TV interview

After widespread criticism, prime minister says decision to skip ceremony in France was a ‘mistake’.

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The Guardian - UK

BBC election debate: Penny Mordaunt says Sunak’s D-day snub was ‘very wrong’ in seven-party clash – as it happened

Mordaunt, for the Tories, faced Labour’s Angela Rayner, Reform’s Nigel Farage and candidates from Lib Dems, SNP, Greens and Plaid Cymru

The Guardian - UK

In Tory England, the Lib Dems can smell revenge in the air – and sewage in the rivers

In these still largely prosperous rural heartlands, filthy water has become a surprisingly powerful symbol of national decline, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer expected to push for Palestinian state in Labour manifesto

Labour policy likely to irritate Israel, whose prime minister reacted angrily when Ireland, Spain and Norway officially recognised Palestine in May

The Guardian - UK

England’s Euro 2016 nightmare returns with Iceland’s Wembley visit

Being dumped out of the tournament and Roy Hodgson’s resignation – plus the Brexit vote – made for a traumatic time eight years ago

The Guardian - UK

Nigel Farage, the man who wants to be the UK’s answer to Donald Trump

Populist politician who formed anti-EU pact with ruling Conservatives is back to engineer party’s demise

The Guardian - UK

A cliche purge, a show of empathy and a ‘dead cat’: here’s how Starmer or Sunak can win tonight’s debate

The Labour leader has everything to lose: Sunak everything to gain, says former Tory communications chief Giles Kenningham

The Independent UK

Who is Julie Etchingham? The ITV presenter hosting the first general election debate

The veteran TV presenter is no stranger to hosting political leaders

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