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Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has joked about needing a new job next week as she faces being one of the Tories' most high-profile election casualties.
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Glasgow TimesI'm a councillor and I quit the SNP after 20 years - here's why
A Paisley councillor has accused Renfrewshire Council’s leader of trying to “ridicule and subdue” him in an astonishing blast after resigning from the SNP.
- HuffPost UK
Trevor Phillips Destroys Nigel Farage With One Devastating Question
The Reform UK leader rejected the accusation that his party is a home for racists.
- HuffPost
Trump Throws Middle-Of-The-Night Fit After Nancy Pelosi Called Him Out On Live TV
The former president attacked the former House speaker as a “sick puppy.”
- The Telegraph
What are Marine Le Pen’s plans for France?
After Marine Le Pen’s National Rally walloped Emmanuel Macron in the first round of voting in the French elections, there is a real chance France could be governed by a hard-Right party for the first time since the Second World War.
- HuffPost UK
Rishi Sunak Left Squirming As He's Confronted With Ordinary People's Lives In Tory Britain
The prime minister had insisted life was "better" now than when the party came to power in 2010.
- HuffPost
'Not Fit For Office': Liz Cheney Fires Back At Trump's Brazen 'Treason' Meme
The former GOP lawmaker called the former president's latest move proof he's "not a stable adult."
- The Telegraph
Has Nigel Farage stumbled at the last hurdle? Our writers give their verdicts
One party has transformed the general election race, with Nigel Farage announcing several weeks ago that he would not only stand as a Reform UK candidate but would lead it for the next five years. The polls moved quickly in the days that followed with his party rising up the rankings. Now, however, there is doubt over its state in the final week of campaigning. Have Farage and Reform UK bungled it, allowing a slew of stories regarding candidates to dominate the narrative, or is this an exaggerat
- The Independent
Black journalist removed from Reform UK rally by security
Femi Oluwole was removed by security guards saying they ‘didnt know’ why despite showing them his press card
- HuffPost
AOC Says She'll File Articles Of Impeachment Amid SCOTUS 'Corruption Crisis'
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's threat of impeachment comes after the court ruled on Trump's immunity argument.
- The Telegraph
Emmanuel Macron is about to become unbearable
His party faces near-annihilation in the National Assembly, with fewer seats than Rishi Sunak’s Tories can hope for later this week. His prime ministers, past and present, could not find hard enough words in private to describe his “suicidal” snap election decision since he took it three weeks ago. Marine Le Pen was quick to claim an historic victory as her National Rally came first in yesterday’s first round of the legislative elections, with 33 per cent of the vote.
- Associated Press
Voters kick all the Republican women out of the South Carolina Senate
The only three Republican women in the South Carolina Senate took on their party and stopped a total abortion ban from passing in their state last year. Sandy Senn, Penry Gustafson and Katrina Shealy from office during sparsely turned out primaries in June, and by doing so completely vacated the Republican wing of the five-member “Sister Senators," a female contingent that included two Democrats and was joined in their opposition to the abortion ban. For Republicans, the departure of Senn, Gustafson and Shealy likely means there will be no women in the majority party of state Senate when the next session starts in 2025.
- Business Insider
Ukraine says it destroyed almost 60 Russian air defense systems in June, the second-highest number of monthly kills since the war began
War experts have suggested that Ukraine may be degrading Russian air defenses, possibly with the coming F-16s in mind.
- CNN Business
One of the world’s richest men wants to transform India’s biggest slum
When Masoom Ali Shaikh arrived in Mumbai in 1974 as a young man from northern India, the patch of land where he set up shop was “just a creek with no proper road and garbage all around,” he said.
- HuffPost
Election Predictor Shuts Down Concerns On Biden Debate Performance: ‘Zero’ Impact
History professor Allan Lichtman pointed to one scenario that shows Democrats’ “only chance to win” in November.
- HuffPost UK
'On The Brink Of Destruction': Trevor Phillips Tells Oliver Dowden The Tories Face Election Wipeout
The party still trails well behind Labour with just four days to go until the election.
- The Hill
Biden deputy campaign manager after Trump immunity ruling: ‘I’m scared as s‑‑‑’
President Biden’s principal deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks said Monday that he’s “scared as s‑‑‑” after the Supreme Court ruled that former President Trump has presumptive criminal immunity for official acts. “I’m scared as s‑‑‑ and I think Americans are scared and should be scared of what Donald Trump will do, because he has been…
- HuffPost UK
A Rupert Murdoch Newspaper Has Endorsed Labour In Another Blow For Rishi Sunak
It is the first time it has done so since Tony Blair was prime minister.
- The Guardian
Hunger strikes and suicide attempts as asylum seekers claim Essex site is ‘like prison’
Helen Bamber Foundation report finds ‘growing feelings of desperation’ among camp’s 600 residents
- ITN
'How dare he?!', Farage responds to Dowden's Russia comments
Deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden said earlier today that Moscow allegedly use Facebook pages to grow support for Reform UK adding that "it's a classic example from the Russian playbook" and warning that Kremlin's interference in the general election is "gravely concerning". Responding to these comments, the Reform UK leader calls it a "Russian hoax" saying "how dare he" claiming that the Conservatives "have taken millions of pounds of Russian money over the last few years from their donors". .
- The Telegraph
What to do now to shield your money from Labour taxes
With the countdown to the general election now in its final days, Labour has continued to do little to answer questions or quell concerns about its tax plans should it win power.