The prime minister visited a walled garden at Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, on Saturday’s campaign trail.
According to the Press Association (PA), an opportunity for the media to ask questions of Rishi Sunak did not take place as was originally planned, likely following the fallout on Friday of his early return from D-day commemorations in Normandy.
Earlier, the BBC’s Tom Symonds who is reporting from the Conservative election bus, said he’d been told that Sunak would not be talking to “the national media, and there will be no interviews”.
Symonds wrote: “A possible ‘huddle’ – when the PM takes a few questions from reporters off camera – has been cancelled. We’ve been told this is due to time pressure.”
At the garden, Sunak spoke with volunteers Margaret Lambert and Hilary Bellwood, who encouraged him to apply for an allotment garden, reports the PA.
Sunak also watered plants with Jane MacBean, Conservative candidate for Bishop Auckland.
The PA reports that members of the public could be seen gathered at a hillside above the garden to try to catch a glimpse of the prime minister within.
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John Swinney has said former first minister Nicola Sturgeon has a “huge” contribution to make in the SNP’s general election campaign, report the Press Association (PA).
Sturgeon has kept a relatively low profile amid Police Scotland’s Operation Branchform investigation, which saw her arrested and later released without charge as officers probe the spending of £600,000 of SNP funds.
Her husband and former party chief executive Peter Murrell was charged with embezzlement as part of the probe. Former party treasurer and current MSP Colin Beattie was also arrested and released pending further investigation.
Charges have not been brought against Sturgeon or Beattie, and Police Scotland say the investigation “remains ongoing”.
In May, Sturgeon was quizzed by journalists on why she had not yet joined her former deputy – now first minister – to campaign for the party as part of the election.
Sturgeon replied: “I will be campaigning in the election from time to time, yes.” When pressed on whether she will campaign alongside the first minister, she added: “John will have his own programme and I will campaign in ways that I think are helpful to candidates.”
Swinney would not be drawn on why his former boss had not been seen alongside him on the campaign trail so far, reports the PA
Speaking as he visited the Reconnect Howden Park Centre, where he met young performers, Swinney told the PA news agency:
I welcome very much Nicola’s contribution to our election campaign. She is supporting a range of different candidates around the country and that’s good.
I work collaboratively and closely with Nicola, and welcome her participation in the campaign.
I think Nicola has got a huge amount to contribute to the SNP and the cause of Scottish independence.”
The prime minister visited a walled garden at Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland, on Saturday’s campaign trail.
According to the Press Association (PA), an opportunity for the media to ask questions of Rishi Sunak did not take place as was originally planned, likely following the fallout on Friday of his early return from D-day commemorations in Normandy.
Earlier, the BBC’s Tom Symonds who is reporting from the Conservative election bus, said he’d been told that Sunak would not be talking to “the national media, and there will be no interviews”.
Symonds wrote: “A possible ‘huddle’ – when the PM takes a few questions from reporters off camera – has been cancelled. We’ve been told this is due to time pressure.”
At the garden, Sunak spoke with volunteers Margaret Lambert and Hilary Bellwood, who encouraged him to apply for an allotment garden, reports the PA.
Sunak also watered plants with Jane MacBean, Conservative candidate for Bishop Auckland.
The PA reports that members of the public could be seen gathered at a hillside above the garden to try to catch a glimpse of the prime minister within.
Asked if he would be cutting taxes as part of Labour’s manifesto, Starmer said there “won’t be any surprises on tax”.
During a visit to Camden, north London, on Saturday, the Labour leader said: “All of our plans are fully costed, fully funded, none of them involving tax rises over and above those that we have already set out.”
Keir Starmer has said he wants to level the playing filed for small businesses as he pledged to overhaul the business rates system.
The Labour leader said:
We want to replace them with a system that works better, because at the moment there’s not a level playing field between businesses that are online and those that are sort of bricks and mortar.
It’s been a problem for a long time, the government hasn’t fixed it and small businesses have all gone through a really hard time in recent years.
So, that’s our plan, we want small businesses to thrive because they are the backbone of our economy and they need that stability in our economy, and they need to know that their energy bills are actually going to be lower and stable.”
Starmer was joined by Dragons’ Den star Deborah Meaden in Camden, where she voiced her support for the party’s Great British Energy plans.
She told PA news agency:
I think GB Energy is absolutely brilliant, I think it does everything that I care about.
Businesses don’t like being out of control of costs and energy is one of those costs that simply fluctuates beyond your control.”
Labour’s GB Energy plan is “very popular” with small businesses, Keir Starmer has claimed.
Great British Energy, with £8bn of investment, forms the centrepiece of Labour’s promise to decarbonise the electricity supply by 2030. This would stop well short of any form of renationalisation: GB Energy would be a state-owned investment vehicle and company working alongside and often in partnership with the existing private sector suppliers.
Speaking during his visit to the 3 Locks Brewery in Camden, the Labour leader said:
Everybody must remember for a small business you put your money in, you put yourself in, you put your whole self in, and they take risks.
They’ve had a really hard time with this government in recent years, so our plan is to support small businesses and give them that chance that they need.
That does involve replacing rates, because business rates put a real drag on businesses. It also involves stabilising the economy, of course, and Great British Energy, because what’s come up here, comes up with all small businesses, energy is too expensive.
What you can’t have if you run a small business is sort of costs that you can’t control, so Great British Energy, a publicly owned company for renewables, is very, very popular with small businesses.”
Keir Starmer has said it was his “duty” to thank veterans at the international D-day event which the prime minister skipped.
The Press Association (PA) reports that Starmer did not answer a question on whether Rishi Sunak’s apology was enough.
On a campaign visit to 3 Locks Brewing Company, a canal-side craft brewery in Camden, the Labour leader told broadcasters:
I thought it was very important to be there myself as leader of the Labour party.
I took a little bit of time on Thursday just to contemplate what it must have been like for those young men to run up the beach at 17, 18, 19 years old, into gunfire.
And of course, this was allied troops. This was different countries all working together, that international effort, and to consider that they didn’t share a uniform, they didn’t share flags, they didn’t share a language, but what they did share was a determination to carry out the task that was asked of them, which led to the liberation of Europe.
I found that very, very moving. I thought it was my duty to thank the veterans who were there on their own behalf, but also on behalf of those that didn’t return.”
Keir Starmer has met young people who are voting for the first time this year.
The Labour leader pulled the first pint of the day at 10.55am at 3 Locks Brewery in Camden.
Scrapping the Rwanda scheme, helping young adults through the cost-of-living crisis and bettering education were key priorities for the students he spoke to, the Press Association (PA) reports.
According to the news agency, Starmer was heard saying “if all else fails”, he will be back at the brewery on 5 July.
Asked if Sunak should consider his position, Swinney said: “The prime minister has been totally and utterly damaged, and rendered useless by the actions he took in Normandy.”
According to the Press Association, Swinney said that the Tory party’s campaign was “over”, adding: “It’s finished for the Conservatives and it’s finished for Rishi Sunak.”
Scottish first minister John Swinney said Rishi Sunak had “completely destroyed” his credibility as prime minister by leaving D-day commemorations early.
Speaking to journalists on the campaign trail in Livingston, West Lothian, the Press Association (PA) reports Swinney as saying:
I think Rishi Sunak’s credibility is completely destroyed by his departure from D-day early and the insult he delivered to the veterans who had travelled to Normandy for that solemn occasion.
It also, frankly, was a desertion of the international responsibilities of the prime minister.
The prime minister and especially the Conservative election campaign is now utterly in tatters.”
The prime minister is not the first party leader to make bad decisions during the heat of a general election campaign, writes Tom Ambrose.
In fact, Rishi Sunak’s early departure is just one of a long list of political gaffes made during a general election campaign, says Ambrose, who has helpfully put together a list of some of the most memorable election gaffes.
You can read it here:
Ed Davey has denied that the Liberal Democrats are the party of nimbys for focusing on national parks amid a housing crisis and low economic growth.
The Lib Dems vowed to plough £50m a year into maintaining three new national parks in their latest policy offer.
He told the PA news agency:
No, far from it. You’ll see when we publish our manifesto we’ve got ambitious plans on housing as well, but the right houses in the right places.
But people don’t just want houses, they want to know that there’s the environment there to enjoy. And investing in the environment is right to deal with the nature crisis.”
Davey accused the Conservatives of being the party of nimbys, “but they’re also the party of developers”. He added: “They have a developer-led approach. We have a community-led approach.”
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