Some personal news to share: After four and half exhilarating years on the UK news desk, I’m joining the @FT’s brilliant print team as Assistant News Editor to help expand and steer our outstanding newspaper coverage.
Northern councils are moving to shut down a key alternative to asylum hotels - houses of multiple occupancy - citing fears over community cohesion. Report by @JenWilliams_FT https://t.co/B9E8MIHxRF
“Demonising” asylum seekers, immigrants and lawyers by ministers helped lay the ground for the far-right riots, critics including senior politicians have warned. Reporting by @LOS_Fisher and William Wallis https://t.co/5T5ZQPCUlu
I just can’t get past Labour winning 65% of seats off 34% of the vote.
Absolutely wild mismatch between the headline result and, well, everything else.
Britain is now a multi-party system, and first-past-the-post can’t cope.
Tory fortunes will be decided by a relative "handful of votes": The collapse of their support means there are apprx 120 "knife edge seats" where the margin of victory is expected to be <5% https://t.co/8WhX4hV2W6
FT/Ipsos polling shows Rishi Sunak's warning of a Labour "supermajority" is failing to cut through with most Tory voters - 25% said they were supporting Sunak to prevent a Lab landslide vs 28% who fear tax increases. Reporting by @rafeuddin_ https://t.co/goWzpZkqaw
This UK election promises change - but it's the one in 2029 that will *deliver* it. Brexit, the pension triple lock and benefits are unmentionable this campaign but will be on the table next time aruond https://t.co/BcF0Qk9Rm5
The absence of honesty in UK election will undermine democracy itself - important column from Martin Wolf on the dangers of the “politics of evasion” https://t.co/uF7pCXL6Gv
Will ending the VAT exemption for private schools - raising fees by up to 20% - place an unbreabale burden on the state system in England? The answer is: No - according to analysis by @Laura_K_Hughes@amy_borrett
Voters are kicking up a stink about the failure to tackle sewage in their local areas - with Tories at risk of losing key seats to the Lib Dems in battlegrounds around the South East https://t.co/2t51xYRQvU
Rachel Reeves is breaking cover on Europe. She tells the #FT she would seek closer alignment on deals for City workers and in the chemicals sector. Reporting by @GeorgeWParker@Sam1Fleming https://t.co/6CiNdPEHrH
Greenpeace has spotted a contradiction in this election campaign - that most people do care about #climate and *yet* it’s not considered a key voter issue…
Campaigners are swapping militant tactics for door-knocking. Reporting by @henrymance https://t.co/xkJzfLbcn8