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[Prof Colin Talbot @colinrtalbot]

Angela Rayner - £40k underpaid stamp duty - repaid. Lost jobs in Cabinet and Dep. PM.

Peter Murrell - £400k theft from SNP - going to prison

Huge coverage of both

Nigel Farage - £5m undeclared bung (possibly more) - goes to ground for a month.

Media coverage? You judge.

[Connor Naismith MP @connor_naismith]

Compare and contrast @RobertJenrick 😬

[Ell 🌱 @rdg_elliott]

My thoughts are with Farage and the Daily Mail at this difficult time 🫶🏼

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Because nobody in public life has ever had a journalist at their house.

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

Nigel Farage, April 29: “This money was given to me so that I would be safe and secure for the rest of my life”.

Nigel Farage, May 14: “Frankly, it was given to me as a reward for campaigning against Brexit for 27 years.”

Which is it?

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought £1.4m house in cash shortly after receiving £5m personal gift from crypto-billionaire Christopher Harborne.

Reform says the "offer and process" of buying the property commenced before gift. Intriguing story by @AliFortescue

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

BBC News at 6 cover Nigel Farage's £5,000,000 gift from a foreign based crypto billionaire

They don't mention the latest revelations from Ben Habib alleging that Farage and Johnson both previously received £1,000,000 from the foreign based billionaire

Nor mention what Ben Habib said, "The 2019 General Election was sewn up between Nigel Farage, Christopher Harborne and Boris Johnson, and it was a monetary deal, that's how I see it"

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Please retweet.

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

Turning back to the leader of the opposition, the PM says he and Kemi Badenoch have something in common: "Our parties both had tough results at the local elections last week, the difference is she hasn't noticed," he says

Follow live: https://t.co/KAbXByemX3

[Colin the Dachshund @DachshundColin]

🚨BREAKING🚨
Keir Starmer once reclined his seat on a short-haul flight.

In other news Nigel Farage has received a £5m gift, a house, helicopter flights, a Maldives trip and been accused of throwing an election for £1m.

Here's Sam Coates with more on the reclined seat scandal.

[Withnail Jones @withnailjones]

I’m hearing that Andy Burnham has purchased a meal deal at WH Smith in Euston station. Beth, Sam and Sophy are en route to ask the checkout assistant what flavour crisps he chose.

Meanwhile Nigel Farage trousered a £5m bung and didn’t declare it.

Back to the crisps story.

[Joshua Silver @eyejosh]

Please repost if you agree that it would be extremely unwise for Labour to remove Keir Starmer right now

[Patrina Finch #FBPE @Siege_Perilous]

Totally this👇👇👇👇👇👇👇every word. "A manufactured mood" is what the media has created.

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Good for the Obsever for leading on this.

[Josh Fenton-Glynn MP @JoshFG]

Reminder: the loss on the oil rights Thatcher sold was around £500bn

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

BBC and the UK print media covering this any moment now . . . . . Any moment.

[Jaxon @JaxonFisk]

PM local election losses without resignation:

Thatcher 1,066
Major 2,018
Blair 818
Brown 321
Cameron 405
May 1,134
Johnson 485
Sunak 474

Hope this helps.

#elections

[Lee David Evans @LeeDavidEvansUK]

If we go back to this Peter Kellner chart, how should the parties be feeling about these local elections?

Lab = Disappointment
Con = Relief
Lib Dem = Relief
Ref = Disaster
Green = Disappointment

[Jon Neale @JonNeale]

1/8 My home town of Birmingham will get a lot of negative publicity over the coming days. The city has some major problems, it is true, but here's a few more positive facts and figures. These often get hidden by boundary or industrial structure issues.

[Labour Press @labourpress]

Peep Show reboot looks rubbish