27 Days to Go: In The Firing Line
TORIES
- Sunak apologises for leaving D-Day anniversary early.
- Child benefit extended to households, doubling level to £120,000.
- Tories turn off online advertising in D-Day fallout.
- Topline(s):
- Our changes to Child Benefit will save 700,000 families £1,500.
LABOUR
- Hammering Sunak for leaving D-Day.
- Attack on David Johnston not knowing child benefit rate – Tories aren’t even across the details of their own policies.
- The Tories are secretly planning to introduce a new NHS dentistry insurance charge.
- We will make state guarantee of mortgages for first time buyers permanent.
- Topline(s):
- Labour will get Britain building and back first time buyers.
- PM D-Day affair raises worrying questions about both his judgement and his priorities.
LIBDEMS
- Announce plans for 62-day legal guarantee of care for cancer from diagnosis – target not met since 2015.
- Sunak has badly let down veterans and our country. He disrespected his office and the United Kingdom.
- Topline(s):
- Liberal Democrat MPs will make cancer treatment a top priority.
REFORM
- Farage also hammering “non-patriot” Sunak after personal visit to anniversary yesterday.
- Keeping pledge to abolish inheritance tax for estates under £2 million.
- Reform will slash bureaucracy, scrap net zero, halve foreign aid and stop paying interest to banks on Covid debt to save billions.
- Topline(s):
- Sunak is not a patriotic Prime Minister.
GREENS
- Health launch: Greens will increase spending on health and social care to over £50 billion per year by 2030, funded with tax rise on richest.
- The Greens are the only party to pledge rent controls, scrapping right to buy, and a land value tax.
- Zack Polanski says the Labour Party “have been complicit in what is happening in Gaza. And it’s worse than that, they’ve been enabling it.”
- Manifesto launch set for Wednesday.
- Topline(s):
- Greens the only party to be honest with the public that it’s going to cost money to nurse the NHS back to health after 14 years of Tory damage.
Cutting through:
Latest polls:
Survation: LAB: 43 (-4), CON: 23 (-1), RFM: 15 (+7) LBM: 9 (-2), GRN: 5 (+2), SNP: 3 (-).
BMG Research: LAB: 42 (-1), CON: 23 (-4), RFM: 16 (+5) LBM: 9 (-), GRN: 6 (-), SNP: 4 (+2).