News Round-Up

• “I’m ready to govern, says Sir Keir Starmer as polls predict historic Labour victory” – The final YouGov poll of the campaign forecasts a 212 majority for Labour, the biggest since 1832, says the Telegraph.
• “Labour will win biggest majority since 1832, final MRP poll predicts” – More on that YouGov poll in the Times, predicting the Conservatives will win just 102 seats.
• “Rishi Sunak set to stay on as leader if Tories lose” – Ministers have asked Sunak not to quit until September to stop a civil war erupting in the Conservative Party, reports the Times.
• “The U.K. is about to enter a nightmare much darker than anyone yet realises” – A Labour landslide with the Lib Dems as the official opposition will turn us into a Left-wing one party state, warns Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
• “Starmer’s plans will need a robust Opposition” – Ed Davey as Leader of the Opposition is a nightmare scenario, says Harry Phibbs in CapX.
• “Labour ‘will launch £15 billion tax raid’ if it wins super-majority” – City analysts warn that Rachel Reeves will launch a tax raid on pensions, capital gains and inheritance if Labour wins a super-majority, says the Telegraph.
• “Your wealth is about to be surrendered to socialist Starmer” – Labour’s inheritance tax raid would be an unforgivable abuse of power, writes Ben Wilkinson in the Telegraph.
• “Boris and Gove give the perfect Tory requiem” – Impressive speeches from Michael Gove and Boris Johnson at a recent Tory rally have left the Spectator’s Fraser Nelson with a sense of missed opportunities ahead of the election.
• “Ofcom will not investigate Channel Four over Reform undercover sting” – Ofcom will not investigate Channel Four News after Nigel Farage’s Reform claimed the broadcaster used an actor as a “plant” in its undercover investigation into his campaign, reports the Border Telegraph.
• “A Right-wing youthquake?” – Optimism about the Zoomer Right is premature, writes Samuel Martin in the Critic.
• “Hold your nose” – There seems to be more reasons not to vote for a party than for it, says Alastair MacMillan in the New Conservative.
• “Things can only get worse” – Britain is about to be remade in the image of our deranged cultural elites, warns Tom Slater in Spiked.
• “‘The Tory candidate system is broken: I should know’” – “I didn’t get a seat as a Tory party candidate at the General Election and it turns out that I’ve dodged a bullet,” says Lauren Atkins in the Spectator.
• “‘I’ve been appalled by the assaults on traditional family values at this election’” – We claim to be a more tolerant society, so why is the nuclear family under threat? asks Isabel Oakeshott in the Telegraph.
• “Future Right-wing governments must prioritise taking back control from the state machine” – Until we restore power to the voters, we will keep ending up where we are now, writes Daniel Hannan in Conservative Home.
• “Kemi Badenoch leadership bid may be delayed over postal vote issue” – Kemi Badenoch’s bid to stand in a future Conservative leadership contest could be thwarted by the delays in General Election postal votes, reports the Telegraph, if she wins by a small margin and the result is contested by her Labour opponent.
• “Keir Starmer is an enemy of the free press” – The Sun has endorsed a man who persecuted its own journalists, remarks Fraser Myers in Spiked.
• “Labour’s possible new job for Harriet Harman couldn’t be more alarming” – If Labour replace Baroness Falkner with Harman, it would be a body blow to those who believe biological sex matters, writes Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
• “No party for female voters” – Gender-critical feminists have almost no one worth supporting, says Josephine Bartosch in the Critic.
• “Do the Lib Dems have an intolerance problem?” – Is the Liberal Democrat party really all that liberal? The Spectator’s Mr. Steerpike isn’t quite so sure.
• “Michelle Obama the only Biden alternative who would beat Trump” – According to a new Ipsos poll, the only prospective candidate who could beat Donald Trump in the presidential election is Michelle Obama.
• “Gavin Newsom won’t save the Democrats” – He’s charming, dashing and funny – so why isn’t the Governor of California the best person to replace Joe Biden? asks Nellie Bowles in the Free Press.
• “Ukraine to be told it is too corrupt to join NATO” – Ukraine is too corrupt to join NATO, the U.S. is set to tell leader Volodymyr Zelensky in a major blow to his nation’s security ambitions, according to the Mail.
• “Ed Miliband prepares to wage a wind-powered war on the shires” – Labour’s Shadow Energy Secretary is on the brink of unleashing a turbine revolution in Britain’s countryside, says Jonathan Leake in the Telegraph.
• “Our energy policies should not go from one extreme to the other” – According to Prof. Alar Konist, solar and wind energy look cheap only when we disregard the costs of construction, writes Hannes Sarv on the Freedom Research Substack.
• “Google damage control over AI driven 48% CO₂ emissions surge” –  The AI revolution has broken Silicon Valley’s commitment to Net Zero, says Eric Worrall in WUWT?
• “Starmer refuses to rewrite Equality Act despite trans U-turn” – Keir Starmer has refused to rewrite the Equality Act to protect women, despite changing his view on whether biological men should be banned from using female toilets, reports the Telegraph.
• “Forbes piece on Bridgerton’s ‘mixed-weight relationship’ sparks drama” – Forbes has been met with fierce criticism after an opinion piece branded the romance between two characters on the hit show Bridgerton as a “mixed-weight relationship”, reports the Mail. 
• “Outrage over rapists? Only when they’re white” – A defining aspect of Left-liberal outrage at violence against women is that the level of outrage is determined by the ethnic and/or religious identity of the attacker, says Andrew Devine in TCW.
• “How South African universities are training teachers to be woke commissars” – The cultural marxists have come for South Africa’s universities, laments Richard Wilkinson in School Capture.
• “How ‘misinformation’ becomes common knowledge” – Fear of being punished by a crowd is not unique to Democrats, or liberals or Americans. It is an innate human response to the dangers of being ostracised, says Timur Kuran in the Free Press.
• “Reform supporters are absolutely killing it on TikTok” – Lee Harris praises the latest Reform election video on TikTok, depicting Farage as Neo in The Matrix.

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