Tax, Russia, Green Belt, Immigration: Parties Clash in Last Weekend Ahead of Polling Day

Published on June 30, 2024

Labour is eyeing the green belt for housebuilding as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the opposition party would do “irreversible damage” within 100 days if it wins the election next week. Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden said he’s concerned about claims that Russian bots have been expressing support for Reform UK, whose leader Nigel Farage dismissed it as “the Russia hoax.” With polling day approaching in less than a week, the Tories made a series of claims about the impact of Labour’s announced policies and speculation about further measures Sir Keir Starmer could introduce. The Conservatives claimed up to 134,000 children in private schools could be forced into the state sector by September, although the 2018 report on which this assertion is based points to that figure as a possibility over five years....

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