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  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    News in-depthUK general election 2024
    Opposition to ‘monster pylons’ puts Scotland’s energy transition at risk

    Resistance to grid expansion in Aberdeenshire becomes big election issue

    Tracey Smith, of Save Our Mearns action group stands in front of a sign that reads “Stop Monster Pylons Save Our Countryside”
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Tory leadership hopefuls jostle to replace Sunak

    Potential aspirants are courting MPs, building up grassroots support and stepping up social media output

    Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds two lobsters while campaigning at the fishing harbour of Clovelly in Devon
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
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    Campaign catch-up: Labour’s dash for growth

    Plus, what Rachel Reeves told the FT

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Could the Lib Dems become the official opposition?

    A Conservative meltdown plus favourable opinion polling could help Ed Davey’s party chart a path to second place

    Ed Davey high fives someone while pushing a yellow wheelbarrow
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    UK election updates from June 18: Labour to win 453 seats, says Ipsos poll
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Andy Haldane
    Post-election, Britain will once again waive the rules

    Self-imposed fiscal constraints risk starving the economy of the investment needed to boost growth

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Stephen Bush
    Neither politicians nor the public think straight on immigration

    The problem is that voters aren’t willing to pay for a policy they say really matters to them

    Ewan White illustration of bricklayers building a wall in a desert.
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Labour’s private equity tax crackdown to exempt bosses who risk their own capital

    If executives invest their own money in a deal, earnings would be taxed as a capital gain rather than income

    Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    UK schools
    State schools have enough space for exodus of private pupils

    Labour’s VAT school plan would not overstretch state class sizes in England, data show

    Student taking exams
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    ‘Project A30’: The Lib Dems’ plan to win over the South West

    From London to Land’s End, Ed Davey says cash boost needed to bring ‘out of reach’ votes into range

    Ed Davey with party activists carrying Lib Dem posters
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Labour taps veteran Australian strategist for election campaign

    David Nelson’s move to UK underlines ties between centre-left parties in Britain and Australia

    Labour leader Keir Starmer on the general election campaign trail in Essex
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Labour clean energy plan undermined by inadequate funds, says think-tank

    IPPR calls into question party’s pledge to ‘reindustrialise’ UK through state-led investment

    Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves visit Ocean Gate container terminal at Southampton docks
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Brexit
    Labour’s EU plan will have ‘minimal’ impact on cost of Brexit, says think-tank

    UK in a Changing Europe says proposal to improve trading relationship with the bloc would have limited benefit

    Trucks at Dover
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    LexOil
    Proposed North Sea tax hike pours cold water on producers Premium content

    Oil and gas sector warns Labour that its manifesto pledge could kill off investment

    Oil rig on sea horizon
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    UK politics opinion polls
    UK general election poll tracker

    Live-updating state of the parties polling ahead of the general election on July 4

    An image of a hand placing a ballot paper in a ballot box
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Nigel Farage’s Reform pledges £88bn in ‘radical’ tax cuts

    Plans ‘do not add up’ and will cost billions of pounds more than claimed, Institute for Fiscal Studies warns

    Reform UK leader Nigel Farage with party chair Richard Tice, left, in Merthyr Tydfil on Monday
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Labour party UK
    The Labour party’s uncertain certainty dividend

    Could stability already be ‘priced in’?

  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Inside PoliticsStephen Bush
    Labour’s tax-and-spend commitments will hamper ‘change’ plans

    Myriad challenges — from drinking water to prisons — will require increased spending to solve

    A person holding the Labour party general election manifesto
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    UK election updates from June 17: Reform UK launches manifesto
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    UK crime
    Crime becomes an election issue in Tory heartland of Surrey

    Falling police numbers, mental health call-outs and ‘Me Too’ investigations said to be behind drop in convictions

    Police officers taking part in an operation in Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Carbon trading
    Labour to forge closer EU ties on carbon tax

    Party ‘looking very closely’ at options after Brexit leaves UK industries vulnerable to dumping

    A worker walks through coils of steel at a  Tata factory in the West Midlands
  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Oil & Gas industry
    Labour’s North Sea tax pledge will kill investment, industry warns

    Operators say they will be unable to make money if allowances are scrapped

    Off shore oil rig
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Labour party UK
    A dash for growth: the shadow chancellor prepares for government

    Rachel Reeves says she is focused on increasing UK output, rather than ‘fiddling around with tax rates’

    Rachel Reeves on the roof of the FT’s offices in the City of London
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Rachel Reeves to seek ‘improved’ UK-EU trade terms if Labour wins election

    Shadow chancellor also wants to secure billions of pounds of investment via an international summit

    Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Streeting urges doctors to call off strikes ahead of UK election

    Shadow health secretary ‘beyond furious’ over five-day walkout, but blames Tory ‘intransigence’

    Wes Streeting
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