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Tactics, stories and pride: How might Euro 2024 affect the General Election?

FOR the very first time, a General Election campaign is coinciding with a major football tournament involving both Scotland and England.

The National (Scotland)

Drill into the policy, ignore the puffery: this is a Starmer manifesto more than a Labour one

The comparator isn’t any other Labour leader – it’s the Tory Edward Heath, says the Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

Professor John Curtice — things you didn’t know about TV's most famous general election expert

All you need to know about Professor John Curtice, the eminent TV general election guru.

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‘Quite a nightmare’: UK media face tricky few weeks juggling football and politics

Broadcasters weighing how to cover Euro 2024 at same time as general election, with BBC facing extra complication of Wimbledon

The Guardian - UK

Once Britain is back in the EU, things can only get better

Both major parties will try to conduct their campaigns without mentioning Brexit. But we cannot afford not to discuss it

The Guardian - UK

Rishi’s own goal: six classic football gaffes by prime ministers – and what they reveal

This week, Rishi Sunak put his foot in it while talking to fans in Wales. He certainly isn’t the first PM to make a mistake when talking about the beautiful game ...

The Guardian - UK

Little evidence suggests Rishi Sunak will benefit from a football feelgood factor by holding a July election – it may even be an own goal

Amid the shock of prime minister Rishi Sunak’s unexpected election announcement, it has not gone unnoticed that the July 4 date coincides with this summer’s European Championships in Germany. England and Scotland are competing in the tournament – though UK football fans will be relieved to know that the election…

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Britain was wise to cleave to Europe as the empire began to disintegrate. It’s time to do it again

Ideas of exceptionalism and ‘laissez-faire’ policies are still driving economic myths that should be stone dead

The Guardian - UK

Secret’s out, Harold Wilson had another affair. There’s nothing sweet about that, boys

The former PM’s aides josh that it was good for his morale, and ours. Never mind his wife

The Guardian - UK

Even Europe’s far-right firebrands seem to sense Brexit is a disaster

When I met the Dutch politician Geert Wilders years ago, he was set on ‘Nexit’. Now he too would rather stay in the EU

The Guardian - UK

A rose-tinted view of Harold Wilson’s affair

Brief letters: Mary Wilson | Turning the tabloids | The Fender Stratocaster | Peter Higgs | Lost vowels in Abrdn

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Harold Wilson’s affair: a secret at the sunset

Editorial: After nearly half a century, aides reveal that a Labour prime minister said he had found happiness in a new relationship

The Guardian - UK

Harold Wilson confessed to secret ‘love match’ while PM, former aide reveals

Joe Haines tells the Times of relationship with Janet Hewlett-Davies before Labour leader resigned from No 10

The Guardian - UK

Lord Hoyle obituary

Veteran backbench MP admired as a skilful tactician who served as the chair of the parliamentary Labour party in the 1990s

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A defeated Rishi Sunak should go, but my advice is: not too quickly

What our politics and government need is a restoration of continuity and stability – not a premature resignation, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Lord Tomlinson obituary

Last parliamentary private secretary to Harold Wilson, whose political career spanned six decades

The Guardian - UK

The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis

Mass-scale housebuilding isn’t necessary – there is already enough housing stock. But we need to learn the wisdom of the last century when it comes to landlordism

Evening Standard

Hampstead home of former Labour prime minister Harold Wilson for sale for £2m

Wilson lived at the house between 1956 and 1964, when he was elected as prime minister

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The National (Scotland)

Improving people's lives 'only way to increase independence support', says SNP MP

THE sole way for the SNP to “move the dial on independence” is by focusing on making “material improvements” to people’s livelihoods and…

The Guardian - UK

What is behind Huddersfield’s remarkable house price boom?

Value of residential properties in the West Yorkshire town grew faster than anywhere in the UK in the 12 months to October 2023. Why?

The Guardian - UK

Management and unions cooperating? That would make everyone happier

Keir Starmer’s planned labour reforms would lift morale in focusing on agreement, not strife

The Guardian - UK

A lesson from Harold Wilson for Keir Starmer: don’t let the right undermine Labour’s achievements

Millions of lives were improved by reforms in the 1960s and 70s, from anti-racism laws to equal pay – yet many voters see his tenure as a failure, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Tories have plenty of weak spots – and dislike years that end in four

Labour will be going on the attack, mindful of having come to power in 1924, 1964 and 1974

The Independent UK

Row grows over Liz Truss ‘lettuce list’ honours for cronies

Former PM’s ‘shameless’ move compared to Harold Wilson’s ‘lavender list’ scandal – as Jacob Rees-Mogg makes desperate defence of ally

The Guardian - UK

I’ve worked for decades to reveal the truth about the ‘Wilson plot’. But the cover-up continues

Files about alleged Soviet infiltration in MI5 and a plot centred on the former Labour PM are still missing, says author and former Guardian security editor Richard Norton-Taylor

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