News Round-Up

• “The best moments from Starmer and Sunak’s fiery head to head” – The Prime Minister and Labour leader challenged each other in areas including tax and migration in last night’s BBC debate, reports the Telegraph.
• “Pro-Palestinian protesters heckle Sunak and Starmer” – Distant shouts, cheers and a megaphone were heard on the televised feed of the BBC’s head-to-head, says the Telegraph.
• “Who won the debate? A furiously articulate Rishi Sunak” – He’s simply the better debater, but he also knows that the voters are long past caring, writes Tom Peck in the Times.
• “Combative, energetic, passionate – where has this Rishi been until now?” – Sunak leaves his fighting talk ringing in voters’ ears as he gives it everything he has to expose Starmer’s weaknesses, says Gordon Rayner in the Telegraph.
• “Labour ‘set for huge majority’ despite Brits not liking either leader” – Two surveys conducted using MRP methodology have given a dire picture of Rishi Sunak’s prospects, with barely a week to go until July 4th, according to the Mail.
• “Labour avoids Lib Dem target seats in ‘unspoken pact’” – Labour and the Lib Dems have denied making a formal tactical voting agreement, but it looks like one is in place, reports the Times.
• “38% cent of Tory supporters likely to back party to ensure it survives” – A poll by Lord Ashcroft has found that 38% of former Tory voters said the prospect of a big Labour majority makes them more inclined to vote Conservative again, says the Mail.
• “Labour refuses to rule out scrapping tax-free pension allowance” – Tories attack shadow pensions secretary’s “disingenuous” answers to Martin Lewis’s questions, says the Telegraph.
• “Labour will make every U.K. borough take ‘fair share’ of migrants, says Rayner” – The Labour Party’s Deputy Leader insists all authorities must house successful asylum seekers who will be eligible for places in new 1.5m social housing, according to the Telegraph.
• “Labour’s Net Zero target could cost hundreds of billions, leaked audio reveals” – The Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury’s remarks at a public event suggest Labour’s spending on Net Zero could go far beyond public declarations, says the Telegraph.
• “Armageddon is upon us, and Britain will never be the same again” – Right-wing Britain faces a total meltdown, with the elimination of any power over the U.K.’s destiny, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “Video released of David Cameron fooled by Russian hoax call” – The Foreign secretary was duped into discussing the General Election, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Nato with an impostor posing as a former Ukrainian president, says the Times.
• “Sir Keir Starmer is about to discover just how lucky he really is” – The Conservatives are leaving behind an economic legacy that’s not nearly as bad as it’s been portrayed, says Jeremy Warner in the Telegraph.
• “Rory Stewart is everything that’s gone wrong with the Tories” – The Conservatives’ attempts to appease the ‘sensible’, ‘centrist’ types have brought the party to ruin, says Gareth Roberts in Spiked.
• “Tory Sir Philip Davies bet £8,000 on himself to lose seat” – The Conservative candidate for Shipley said he “fully expects” to be beaten and told reporters his bet was “nobody’s business”, reports the Times.
• “The betting ‘scandal’ has gone too far” – What began as concern about those close to Rishi Sunak using insider knowledge has ballooned into an unnecessary war on politicians betting, says William Atkinson in the Spectator.
• “‘You are the problem’: Sunak hits back at David Tennant in trans row” – The Doctor Who actor has been criticised by the Prime Minister for his attack on Kemi Badenoch, reports the Telegraph.
• “David Tennant’s attack on Kemi exposes the Left’s sinister hypocrisy” – Tom Harris explains why the radical progressive Left will no longer defend women’s rights in the Telegraph.
• “Actor or activist? The hard political edge of David Tennant” – The actor has long criticised the Conservative Party, but have his recent comments on Kemi Badenoch crossed the line? asks Ed Cumming in the Telegraph.
• “David Tennant’s mask slipped when he attacked Kemi Badenoch” – Brendan O’Neill gives Tennant both barrels in the Times.
• “Dawn Butler under fire for saying Kemi Badenoch shouldn’t exist” – Labour’s candidate in Brent East has been accused of bringing Labour into disrepute for agreeing with David Tennant’s remark that he wanted a world without Kemi Badenoch, reports the Times.
• “I salute the nurses who took a stand against this women-have-penises nonsense” – They have shown how we have to fight, case by case, activist by activist, says Allison Pearson in the Telegraph.
• “Judge wishes Julian Assange ‘happy birthday’ before freeing him after 12 years” – The WikiLeaks founder has returned to Australia after a perfunctory hearing on a Pacific island, says the Telegraph.
• “How Bitcoin built the WikiLeaks war chest and made Assange millions” – Assange’s company started accepting cryptocurrency donations in 2010 and its holdings have swollen in value to be worth an estimated $244m, reports the Times.
• “The Supreme Court Punts on Censorship” – Standing and the related “traceability” issue doom Murthy v. Missouri, as the Supreme Court votes 6-3 to kick the Internet censorship can down the road, says Matt Taibbi on Racket News.
• “James Orr: Political earthquakes are coming to the U.S. and Europe” – Listen to Michael Shellenberger talk to James Orr about overcoming the threats to Western civilisation on Public.
• “Special report: Gary Lineker’s podcast empire is raking in millions – at England’s expense” – Ratings for Lineker’s The Rest is Football podcast have soared – but he is about to face competition from Gary Neville, reports the Telegraph.
• “Cherie Blair slams ‘absurd’ data on TV licence convictions for women” – Ministry of Justice data from 2012 until 2016 shows that between 29 and 31% of all convictions for women in those years were for TV licence fee evasion, says the Mail.
• “How Covid broke our trust In government” – Hard questions still need to be asked about the pandemic response, says Bethany Mclean in Persuasion.
• “Council chief charged with class A drug and drink-driving offences” – Bayo Dosunmu, the Chief Executive of Lambeth Council, has been accused of failing to stop after an accident and being uninsured, reports the Telegraph.
• “Macron may soon resign” – The President tried to catch the National Rally off guard, but it backfired terribly, writes Ane-Elisabeth Moutet in the Telegraph.
• “Britain is being tricked into becoming vegetarian” – The removal of meat from hospital and school menus is causing concern among parents and some medics, says the Telegraph.
• “Rebel priests threaten to split Church of England over same-sex blessings” – A CofE group says it may have to create a “parallel province” if go-ahead is given for trial stand-alone gay marriage services, according to the Telegraph.
• “Police criticised for ignoring sex of ‘person convicted of rape’” – Lexi Secker was found guilty of a rape committed as a man, before he chose to identify as a woman, but Wiltshire police are referring to him as “she”, says the Times.
• “Terrified Jewish mother may leave Britain after her son was assaulted” – On Monday a group of Year 7 schoolchildren from Hasmonean High School for Boys in Belsize Park were physically attacked on the platform of Belsize Park tube station, reports the Mail.
• “Stop it!” – Il Donaldo Trumpo has tweeted a hilarious skit of the U.S. Presidential debate, in which Trump and Biden have been transformed into children.

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