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Rishi Sunak is facing a new blow after a YouGov survey published last night put Reform ahead of the Tories by a point with 19 per cent.
With only three weeks before election day, the prime minister insisted the Conservatives are “still fighting hard fore every vote”.
Speaking from Italy where is attending the G7 leaders summit, Mr Sunak warned people against voting for Nigel Farage’s party as they will make Labour win and hand Sir Keir Starmer a “blank cheque”.
It comes as Mr Farage claimed the Conservatives are “about to implode” and declared that his party is “now the opposition to Labour” after pushing the Tories to a historic third place in the polls.
Morale is now low among panicking Tory members who described Penny Mordaunt as “a fishwife” as they reacted to the seven way debate last night in despair.
Party leaders took part in a seven-way debate with Angela Rayner, Labour’s deputy leader, taking the brunt of the other leaders’ questions.
Key Points
- Sunak responds to Reform poll lead over Tories
- Reform UK overtakes Tories in poll
- Farage: Tories are about to ‘implode’
- Pollster: Reform lead result bad news for Tories
- Streeting: Reform part of Tory party’s ‘psychodrama'
- Tory members despair over ‘fishwife’ Penny Mordaunt
Sunak responds to Reform poll lead over Tories
Rishi Sunak has responded to last night’s YouGov poll result placing Reform ahead of the Tories for the first time.
The prime minister claimed: “We are only halfway through this election, So I’m still fighting very hard for every vote.
“And what that poll shows is - the only poll that matters is the one on July 4 - but if that poll was replicated on July 4, it would be handing Labour a blank cheque to tax everyone, tax their home, their pension, their car, their family, and I’ll be fighting very hard to make sure that doesn’t happen.
“And actually, when I’ve been out and about talking to people, they do understand that a vote for anyone who is not a Conservative candidate is just a vote to put Keir Starmer in No 10.
“So if you want action on lower taxes, lower migration, protected pensions or a sensible approach to net zero you’re only going to get that by voting Conservative.”
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Rhun ap Iorwerth: Farage comments on climate 'worst elements of culture war'
The Plaid Cymru’s leader has criticised criticised Farage’s comments on Net Zero causing “massive self-harm” to people’s energy and fuel bills.
Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, Rhun ap Iorwerth said it is one of the “worst elements of the culture war” and warned there is “self-harm” in not addressing the environmental issue.
Farage: 'UK climate action doesn’t benefit planet’
Nigel Farage has said the government’s net zero plans are deindustrialising the UK.
The Reform lead says: “I’m arguing the impact that we are doing, which is an enormous act of economic self-harm.
“We’re irrelevant .. what we’ve done hasn’t benefitted the planet at all.”
The Uk has vowed to reduce greenhouse gases emissions to net zero by 2050.
Comment | Angela Rayner dominated the debate as if Labour was already in government
The second seven-way TV showdown saw the transfer of power far advanced, writes John Rentoul – particularly when it came to Penny Mordaunt and the deputy leader of the Labour Party.
“Rayner spoke carefully, as if she were a minister,” says Rentoul.
“Her words carried more weight than anyone else’s on the seven-person panel, because power has already shifted. Mordaunt besieged her, haranguing and attacking, as if she was trying to disrupt the new government. It didn’t help that her criticism of Rayner on immigration was, ‘You’ve had 14 years to come up with a plan’, as if it was Labour’s record that was under discussion.”
Read the full analysis here.
Labour to introduce social care cap by October 2025
Shadow minister Wes Streeting has insisted that Labour will introduce a cap on adult social care costs by October next year.
But the pledge did not appear in the party’s manifesto published yesterday.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “That’s the plan, as things stand.”
Adult social care charging reforms, which includes a £86,000 cap, were due to be implemented by the Conservatives from October 2023 but they were delayed by two years.
Asked whether he could make a firm commitment, he responded: “We don’t have any plans to change that situation and that’s the certainty and stability I want to give the system at this stage.”
Salma Ouaguira14 June 2024 10:13 1718355922Tory minister: 'I totally understand why people are thinking Reform’
Johnny Mercer has been out campaigning to be re-elected in his seat of Plymouth Moor view.
He has posted a video of him accompanied with a caption that read: “Poll out overnight. Totally understand why people are thinking Reform, you won’t find me slating them.”
In the video, the Conservative candidate added: “If you want me to continue as your MP and put you first in everything, you’ve got to go out and vote. It’s not a done deal - we’re fighting like hell down here.”
Salma Ouaguira14 June 2024 10:05 1718355622Labour ‘the party of wealth creation’ not wealthy Tories
Labour ‘the party of wealth creation’ not wealthy Tories
Labour has taken aim at the Tory chief executive Stephen Massey, after a complany he is a non-executive director of paid a dividend of £26.5million to its parent company based in Jersey in 2023.
Salma Ouaguira14 June 2024 10:00 1718355322Boris Johnson is back - and he is backing a Tory MP who wanted to oust Rishi Sunak
Boris Johnson has let it be known he is abroad for most of this election campaign.
But he has made an intervention - to back a candidate who called for Sunak’s head just weeks ago.
Simon Clarke has been openly calling for the party to replace the PM
In a new video Mr Johnson says he “passionately” wants Mr Clarke re elected.
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Salma Ouaguira14 June 2024 09:50 1718354662Farage: Hitler was ‘hypnotic in a very dangerous way'
Nigel Farage has described Adolf Hitler as a “hypnotic” public speaker in a “very dangerous way”.
The Reform UK was asked about previous claims he made praising Vladimir Putin being as a “political operator”.
Asked why, Mr Farage replied: “How many years has he been in power? He’s gone from prime minister, to president, he’s a clever political operator. He kills journalists, I don’t like him as a human being in any way at all.
“You can recognise the fact that some people are good at what they do even if they have evil intent.”
Asked if Nazi Germany dictator Hitler was good at what he did, Mr Farage replied: “What, as a public speaker? What do you think? Clearly, hypnotic in a very dangerous way.”
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