Yahoo News General Election 2024: June 28 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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- 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
- 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
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.
- The Telegraph
Belarus threatens nuclear use as Russia blamed for jamming GPS - Ukraine: The Latest, Podcast
Today, we bring you the latest news from Ukraine, look at how Russia has been blamed for jamming GPS signals on British military jets and ask quite why Belarus - a country hosting Russian nuclear missiles - is rattling the nuclear sabre once more.
- 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
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
'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 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…
- CNN
Biden seizes on Trump’s Supreme Court triumph to seek redemption after debate debacle
President Joe Biden offered a dramatic, direct response to an epochal Supreme Court ruling that could hand presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump a pass to unchecked power if he wins a second term.
- 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
- The Guardian
Rees-Mogg tells young Tories he wants to ‘build a wall in the English Channel’
Ex-cabinet minister reiterates backing for Donald Trump and claims ‘Biden doesn’t like Britain’ in leaked recording
- The Hill
Luttig: Trump, other presidents now ‘above the law’
Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig said former President Trump and other U.S. presidents can now be considered “above the law” after the Supreme Court ruled Monday that core presidential powers are immune from prosecution. “It can never again be said that in America ‘no man is above the law,’” Luttig, a longtime conservative jurist…
- Rolling Stone
In Memos to Quell Doubters, the Biden Campaign Touts Alarming Poll Results
Biden’s team emailed surveys showing most voters think he isn't fit to be president, is too old, and should be replaced on the ticket
- The Guardian
US supreme court rules Trump has ‘absolute immunity’ for official acts
Court rules former presidents entitled to some degree of immunity from criminal prosecution
- 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.
- The Guardian
EU would not rush to reopen Brexit talks with Labour, say Brussels sources
‘People will be asking is it worth the pain?’ if asked to give UK a gift, says European diplomat
- Associated Press
Trump seeks to set aside New York hush money verdict hours after Supreme Court ruling
Donald Trump’s lawyers on Monday asked the New York judge who presided over his hush money trial to set aside his conviction and delay his sentencing, scheduled for next week. The letter to Judge Juan M. Merchan cited the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling earlier Monday and asked the judge to delay Trump’s sentencing while he weighs the high court’s decision and how it could influence the New York case, according to the letter obtained by The Associated Press. The lawyers argue that the Supreme Court’s decision confirmed a position the defense raised earlier in the case that prosecutors should have been precluded from introducing some evidence they said constituted official presidential acts, according to the letter.