Yahoo News General Election 2024: June 27 round-up
A daily round-up as the UK is set to go to the polls for a July 4 election.
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CNNIran’s presidential election heads to a runoff after reformist wins most votes
Iran’s presidential election is heading to a second round after none of the four candidates managed to secure more than 50% in Friday’s vote.
- 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.
- The Telegraph
Democrats creating path for Joe Biden to make ‘dignified’ exit
Democrats are laying the groundwork for Joe Biden to make a “dignified” exit from the presidential race.
- The Telegraph
Labour vote share falls to lowest in more than two years
Labour’s vote share has fallen to its lowest level in more than two years ahead of the general election, new polling shows.
- INSIDER
Biden's family is telling him to stay in the race even as calls to exit grow
The meeting was pre-planned but was a timely opportunity for Biden to discuss the future of his campaign with the most influential people in his life.
- Manchester Evening News
'My mortgage has doubled... the country's gone to pot': The Greater Manchester neighbourhood where people want change
'I was born and bred here... I've never known the place be as big of a dump as it is'
- Evening Standard
Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally ahead after first round of French voting
The far right party are in the lead after the first round, according to exit polls.
- 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.
- Associated Press
A private call of top Democrats fuels more insider anger about Biden's debate performance
A sense of concern is growing inside the top ranks of the Democratic Party that leaders of Joe Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee are not taking seriously enough the impact of the president’s troubling debate performance earlier in the week. DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison and Biden campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez held a Saturday afternoon call with dozens of committee members across the country, a group of some of the most influential members of the party.
- The Telegraph
Old, rich and living on benefits: welcome to the state pension capital of Britain
East Preston feels an unlikely stronghold of benefits dependency. The genteel village on the West Sussex coast might be the closest thing that Britain has to a moneyed pensioner utopia.
- The Independent
Led by Donkeys interrupt Nigel Farage speech by lowering huge Putin banner
Nigel Farage was initially unaware that the Russian president was on the poster, with the words ‘I heart Nigel’ written below
- PA Media: UK News
Rishi Sunak: I’ll still be Prime Minister on Friday
The Conservative leader defended his party’s record in government against what he described as a ‘declinist narrative’.
- The Telegraph
France records highest turnout in 40 years during Macron’s gamble election
France is on course to record its largest election turnout in over four decades in a battle between the hard-Right and Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition.
- CNN
Russia wants to confront NATO but dares not fight it on the battlefield – so it’s waging a hybrid war instead
When someone tried – and failed – to burn down a bus garage in Prague earlier this month, the unsuccessful arson attack didn’t draw much attention. Until, that is, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala revealed it was “very likely” that Moscow was behind it.
- PA Media: UK News
Reform UK candidate drops out and backs Tories amid racism row
Liam Booth-Isherwood announced he was dropping out of the race for Erewash and would instead be endorsing the Tory contender, Maggie Throup.
- The Telegraph
A Labour landslide would leave the UK unrecognisable
Until now, Sir Keir Starmer has carefully hidden the Labour Party’s radical, hard-Left agenda from the public. But on the brink of the largest majority in nearly a century, his mask has slipped.
- HuffPost
The GOP Faces A Unique Dilemma Ahead Of Trump’s Sentencing
Officials say they’re making contingency plans in case the former president is in jail when the GOP convention starts.
- Bloomberg
Revolt Against Keir Starmer’s Labour by Long-Time Backers Puts Top Team Stars at Risk
(Bloomberg) -- Birmingham resident Johur Uddin has always voted Labour. But with the UK opposition party on the cusp of a potentially record election victory next week, the 56-year-old consultant says he’ll break with the habit of a lifetime on July 4 and mark his ballot paper with an X next to an independent candidate. Most Read from BloombergJustice Department to Charge Boeing, Seeks Guilty Plea from PlanemakerBiden Asks Donors to Stay Following Disastrous DebateBiden's Defiance Has Democrats
- CNN
A year ago, she drank battery acid to escape life under the Taliban. Today, she has a message for other Afghan girls
Arzo survived a suicide attempt but now faces a new threat that could send her family – and millions like them – back to Afghanistan and a life that has become so intolerable for women and girls that some would rather die.
- The Independent
Bad actors or conspiracy theories? The inside story of Farage’s battle for Clacton
Tory MP Giles Watling and Farage’s election agent Peter Harris give the inside story on what really happened with Andrew Parker and the P-word row