Sunak hits out at Farage and Starmer 'would work with Le Pen'
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The Daily Telegraph leads with an attack on Nigel Farage by the Prime Minister. Its headline features a quote from Rishi Sunak describing the Reform UK leader as a "Putin appeaser".
The Times splashes on Channel 4's Reform UK story - the paper says the revelations come as the party faces fresh claims of widespread sexist and racist behaviour among its election candidates.
In other election news the Guardian says a Labour government would ban NHS managers who silence whistleblowers. Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting pledges to eradicate a culture of cover-ups in the health service.
The NHS also features on the Daily Mirror's front page photo - showing an image of a flooded corridor in a hospital in Stockport - evidence, the paper says of the scale of neglect under the Tories.
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves' first budget would include her pledge to impose a 20% VAT on private schools according to the i newspaper.
The Daily Express claims the BBC spent more than £30,000 of licence fee payers' money to hire audience members for the TV debate between Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer. The broadcaster said the payments are standard for such events to cover travel costs and time.
But, according to the Daily Mail a poll by market research and polling company, Redfield and Wilton Strategies, appears to show more than four million voters remain undecided on who to back in next week's election.
Moving to other domestic news the Financial Times reports the number of people paying the top-rate of income tax is due to pass the one million mark for the first time this year.
"TV paramedic murder probe" reads Metro's front page. The paper reports on the death of a paramedic who appeared on the Channel 4 reality show "999: On the Frontline", and his girlfriend. It says a double murder investigation has been launched after the bodies of Daniel Duffield, who was 24, and 22-year-old Lauren Evans were discovered at a property in Staffordshire.
While many are focused on President Biden’s debate performance, Dean Obeidallah says it was former President Trump’s statements during the event that gave offense.
NEW YORK (AP) — A sense of concern is growing inside the top ranks of the Democratic Party that leaders of Joe Biden’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee are not taking seriously enough the impact of the president’s troubling debate performance earlier in the week.
When someone tried – and failed – to burn down a bus garage in Prague earlier this month, the unsuccessful arson attack didn’t draw much attention. Until, that is, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala revealed it was “very likely” that Moscow was behind it.
Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville said President Biden does not have advisers telling him what to do, he has employees, in comments after his poor debate showing on Thursday night. Since the debate between Biden and former President Trump, the conversation has been centered on whether Biden should step aside and allow another Democrat to…
“Debate performances can be overcome,” Allan Lichtman said. “At the first sign of adversity the spineless Democrats want to throw under the bus, their own incumbent president.”
Arzo survived a suicide attempt but now faces a new threat that could send her family – and millions like them – back to Afghanistan and a life that has become so intolerable for women and girls that some would rather die.
The Supreme Court’s most closely watched dispute this year – a case questioning whether former President Donald Trump may claim immunity from federal election subversion charges – also has the potential to be one of the hardest to parse for meaning in real time.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban on Sunday told the West to look past the measures they have imposed on Afghan women and girls for the sake of improving foreign relations.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — When Hungary takes over the helm of the European Union on July 1, many politicians in Brussels will have the same thing on their minds: whether populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will use the role to further his reputation as the bloc’s main spoiler.
OTTAWA — A new poll suggests the vast majority of Canadians are proud of their home and native land, but our sense of national pride is lower than it was a few years ago. Polling firm Leger surveyed 1,607 people last weekend, asking how they're feeling about being Canadian ahead of Canada Day. The firm posed similar questions to a group of 1,003 Americans ahead of the Fourth of July. The results suggest the vast majority of us — 76 per cent — would call ourselves proud Canadians. But 45 per cent
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ten Ukrainian civilians held prisoner for years by Russia arrived in Kyiv overnight Saturday after the mediation of the Vatican, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.