Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a speech in central London, while on the General Election campaign trail, July 2, 2024
‘Ah the irony:’ Aamer Anwar says he doubts Reform has handed over the names of the far-right thugs who went on the rampage in Glasgow last weekend to the Police
DESPAIR erupted in the Tory camp today as ministers admitted defeat at a projected Labour landslide.
Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride told GB News that Labour is heading for an “extraordinary landslide on a scale that has probably never, ever been seen in this country before.”
In a final lap of media interviews before polls open, he told Sky News: “It appears, if the polls are right, that we’re heading towards the largest majority that this country has ever seen, much greater than even 1997’s landslide.”
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP