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Sir Elton John among stars pledging support for Labour in general election - The Guardian

Elton John has led a lineup of celebrities who have announced their support for Labour at the general election.

The singer-songwriter and his husband, David Furnish, joined actors Kit Harington and James Norton, singer Beverley Knight, comedian Jason Manford and businesswoman Deborah Meaden in bringing some stardust to a Labour supporters’ meeting held in the final days before next week’s poll.

Their endorsements of the party, sent as video messages, triggered loud applause at the Westminster venue.

Each celebrity spoke of a subject that was close to their hearts as the reason they planned to vote Labour.

John, who sat next to Furnish, said in his message: “It’s heartbreaking to see the hopes of Britain’s next generation of creative talent downtrodden and destroyed by bureaucracy and red tape.

“The rich cultural exchange and education that informed my early years and paved the way for my career and success is drying up and in danger of dying out completely.

“And it’s not just the musicians, but the whole team that puts together a tour and the wider industry that relies on emerging talent to thrive in the future.”

He added: “There is only one choice. Let’s help artists cut through the red tape that prevents them from thriving and contributing to this country’s future success. Let’s show the world what a creative, prosperous and forward-thinking nation Britain is.”

Furnish added of the music industry: “It’s madness to treat a hugely successful sector with such disdain, particularly one that has been the envy of the world for decades and contributes billions to the British economy every year, and has given us unrivalled soft power across the globe.”

He said he believes there is a chance for youngsters to get “a creative education and help young and emerging musicians achieve the routes to success that have been cruelly and pointlessly snatched away from them”.

Support for the arts was also behind comedian and presenter Jason Manford’s message. He said support had been pledged for the arts at a national level and also in schools to help ensure it is “important for children, and I think that is massive”.

Game of Thrones star Harington said he would be voting Labour because he feels they have “a practical plan” that is needed in the face of the climate crisis.

The actor said: “The climate is teetering and we really can’t afford 14 more years of the Tories in action.”

Stage, film and TV actor Norton, who has appeared in Happy Valley, Grantchester, War and Peace and McMafia, said: “I support the Labour party’s ambition when it comes to making the arts accessible to all children, particularly in regards to their ambitions around the school’s curriculum, reintegrating the arts into kids’ lives.”

Soul singer and Olivier Award-winning actor Knight added: “I support the Labour party’s ambition to allow all children to pursue their passions in the creative space. Because I was one of those children.”

Meaden said she was “very impressed” with the party’s plan for small businesses.

The Dragons’ Den star said there had been a focus on business rates, skills and clean British energy at a time of energy price fluctuation and a need to do “good” for the environment.

One famous face who was in the room along with more than 300 Labour supporters was comedian Bill Bailey, who joked that the Tories are “preparing for a Liz Truss comeback” and added that “to say they have got a grip on things is an insult to grips and things”.

In his mind, the 4 July vote feels like “the most important election in my lifetime”, he said.

In line with the other rousing speeches from the Labour leader, Keir Starmer, the Labour deputy leader, Angela Rayner, and presenter June Sarpong, who acted as host at the event, Bailey urged everyone to press on with campaigning to get the vote out on Thursday.

He said “these last few days are critical” and that “every vote counts”.

In her video message, TV personality Georgia Harrison said she hoped this would be a time to “make a difference to violence against women and girls and hopefully combat the misogyny that we’re currently dealing with as a society”.

Starmer was given a standing ovation as the evening event ended. He hugged his wife, Victoria, and pop music pounded as the audience left with the campaign message that if they want change, they must vote for it, and there is still time to try to gain support.

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Jay Slater: 'Massive search' for missing teenager begins almost two weeks after 19-year-old's disappearance - Sky News

A "massive search" for British teenager Jay Slater is under way in Tenerife, almost two weeks after the apprentice bricklayer went missing.

The Civil Guard said they would step up their search for the 19-year-old after appealing for volunteer associations and individuals with experience in navigating difficult terrain to help them.

Police and volunteers began their search at 9am in the village of Masca, near Mr Slater's last-known location, and are trying to retrace his steps.

The Spanish police force said the search would be co-ordinated to take in a steep rocky area, including ravines, trails and paths.

Mr Slater was at the New Rave Generation music festival and his last known location was the Rural de Teno Park in the north on 17 June - about an 11-hour walk from his accommodation.

Sky's North of England correspondent Shingi Mararike in Tenerife said the search "is perhaps a final push from the Civil Guard to make some kind of headway".

Juan Garcia, an experienced hiker, is among the volunteers and is going to walk through tough terrain with his sniffer dog.

"I think for myself, if something happened to one of my sons… I would like people to help me to solve this case," he told Sky News as he prepared to set off.

"Sometimes, even with only the police it's hard because this is a very difficult area and you need a lot of experience walking.

"[There are] a lot of bushes and it's very hard to walk and even in a few kilometres it takes a lot of time and it's not so easy."

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Mr Slater, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, disappeared while trying to walk back to his accommodation after missing a bus on Monday last week.

He was last pictured at Papayago, the nightclub hosting the end of the NRG festival, late on 16 June.

Slater seen by cafe owner

After the event ended, he got in a car with two men, travelling to a small Airbnb in Masca, where a local cafe owner told Sky News he tried to catch a bus back to Los Cristianos, where he was staying.

Ofelia Medina Hernandez said she saw him at 8am on 17 June, and added: "He asked twice what time the bus came.

"He came back and he asked me again, and I told him again, at 10 o'clock. Later I got in my car, and I saw him, he was walking quickly, but I didn't see him again after that."

She said he was walking in the wrong direction.

Last phone call

It comes after one of Mr Slater's friends told ITV's This Morning about his last video call with the 19-year-old.

Brad Hargreaves said he saw the missing teenager's feet slide on rocks during a call at around 8.30am, saying that is how he knew Mr Slater was not on a road.

He then said Mr Slater went down a "little drop" in one of his last video calls, and added: "He said, 'look where I am'.

"He didn't seem concerned on the phone until we knew how far away he was. I said, 'put your location on'. He said: '15-minute drive, 14-hour walk'.

"I don't know if it's accurate or not so I said to him: 'It's only a 15-minute drive, get a taxi'."

Search teams coordinated by the Civil Guard have since mounted a huge manhunt using helicopters, drones and search dogs to scour mountainous areas of the island, but are yet to find the teenager.

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General election live: ‘pattern of racist and misogynistic views’ within Reform UK, says Tory minister - The Guardian

Security minister Tom Tugendhat has been on the morning broadcast round this Saturday. In an interview with Times Radio, Tugendhat did not rule out a run at the Tory leadership if Rishi Sunak quits following the general election.

Asked if he wanted to be leader, he told Times Radio:

What I want to do is to make sure we’ve got a Conservative leader in this country and that’s why I’m supporting Rishi Sunak. Because the alternative with Keir Starmer, I’m afraid, is higher taxes, more regulation, worse growth and more unemployment.

What we need to do is to make sure that Conservatives across this country win their seats and that’s exactly what I’ve been focused on.”

Pressed again on the issue of what happens after the election, he said:

Well, we’ll deal with hypotheticals in a different way. I mean, the reality is Rishi Sunak is the candidate, there’s only two candidates for prime minister, there’s Rishi Sunak and there’s Sir Keir Starmer.

One of them is committed to lowering your taxes, protecting your borders and making a difference in everybody’s lives. The other, I’m afraid, is Sir Keir Starmer who is committed to raising your taxes, to making life a little bit harder for everybody and to lecturing you on how to live your life.”

During the same interview, Tugendhat said there was a “pattern of racist and misogynistic views” within Reform UK.

Security minister Tom Tugendhat has said there is a ‘pattern of racist and misogynistic views’ within Reform UK.

He told Times Radio:

There’s many decent people vote for every political party and there’s many decent people who will vote for Reform. But what we’re trying to do is to remind people, to try to make clear to people, what it is that Reform really is.

He said Nigel Farage has “clearly done almost no due diligence on who he’s asking to carry his message”.

“There is a real pattern of racist and misogynistic views in the party. I think it’s absolutely right to call it out,” he added.

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Labour must combine tackling the climate crisis with pursuing social justice, if elected, to show that achieving net zero will not be done “on the backs of the poor”, the UK’s outgoing Green party MP has warned.

Caroline Lucas, who has held the seat of Brighton Pavilion since 2010, said: “The biggest priority is to demonstrate that is not the case. We have to make sure that this is a strategy and a policy that is the opposite of being done on the backs of the poor.”

That should be achievable, she added, as social justice and shifting to a green economy go hand in hand. But if Labour takes power, as polls predict, the party must avoid mistakes that put costs on low-income families or that hurt people’s jobs, she said.

“The truth of it is that the policies that we need to get [greenhouse gas] emissions down are actually policies that will increase people’s wellbeing in any case,” she said. Home insulation was one example, where if a minimum energy efficiency standard were enforced on landlords then tenants would have warmer homes, less energy waste and lower emissions.

“Again and again there are concrete examples of where green policy is actually social justice policy, it’s one and the same thing. But that story doesn’t get told nearly strongly enough.”

Lucas looked beyond the current election to the next, five years away, to warn that a resurgent Conservative or Reform party right wing would be planning to “weaponise” the climate crisis, and would seize on any missteps by Labour on the issue.

“There’s a lot of hope riding on what a new Labour government could do after 14 years of Tory chaos, and if they aren’t seen to deliver something in that first term then I worry about what’s going to happen during those next four or five years is that [Nigel] Farage and [Kemi] Badenoch and whoever else within the Tory right are going to be reorganising and getting ready for a comeback. And surely one of the things they’re going to have on top of their list is going to be rolling back on net zero still further,” she told the Guardian.

You can read the full piece by Fiona Harvey and Damien Gayle here:

With it being Armed Forces Day and both Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer scheduled to make visits on the campaign trail marking it, today will feature them pushing the defence and armed forces pledges of their parties.

The prime minister was admonished for leaving the commemoration for the 80th anniversary of D-day early, and will be eager to push his party’s promises to servicemen and women on Armed Forces Day.

According to the PA news agency, Sunak will hail their “duty, dedication and selfless personal sacrifice” and claim the Conservatives are the only party promising to meet the Help for Heroes veterans’ pledge. As well as reiterating the Tories’ manifesto pledge to the armed forces including increasing defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2030, Sunak will also reassert his party’s commitment to the Northern Ireland legacy act, writes the news agency.

Meanwhile, Starmer and shadow defence secretary John Healey will mark Armed Forces Day by joining a veterans’ coffee morning in the south-east of England, where the pair will outline how the next Labour government aims to pay tribute through action.

They will announce new powers for Labour’s planned armed forces commissioner who will be able to investigate and report on issues which affect the lives of service personnel such as substandard housing, faulty kit and poor discharge support.

According to the PA news agency, Starmer will promise Labour will be a “government of service, for those who serve” and that they will “always ensure that those who defend our country have their voices heard at the highest level”.

Elsewhere, Ed Davey will embark on an epic 1,343-mile tour of seats from John o’Groats in northern Scotland to Land’s End in Cornwall in the final days of the campaign. The journey will take in seats that the Liberal Democrats are hoping to take from the Tories and the SNP.

Talking of the SNP, leader John Swinney will be campaigning in the seats of Falkirk, Alloa and Grangemouth and Bathgate and Linlithgow on Saturday, as he claims only SNP MPs will hold the next government to account on austerity cuts.

With less than a week until polls open and predictions of SNP losses to Labour, Swinney will say that Scotland is the only place where the electoral outcome remains on a knife-edge.

Rishi Sunak abandoned his “legacy” policy to ban smoking for future generations amid a backlash from the tobacco industry in the form of legal threats, lobbying and a charm offensive aimed at Conservative MPs, an investigation reveals.

The UK had been on course to become the first country to ban smoking for future generations, via the tobacco and vaping bill, which Downing Street hoped would help define Sunak’s place in British political history.

An investigation by the Guardian and the Examination, a non-profit newsroom that investigates global health threats, has uncovered how the UK’s largest cigarette companies fought against the policy, which would have raised the smoking age by one year every year.

After months of fierce opposition from the industry – and intervention from MPs and thinktanks with ties to tobacco firms – the proposal was excluded from the “wash-up” process, when outgoing governments choose which policies to fast-track and which to drop.

The policy, which in effect banned smoking for anyone born after 2009, was left out despite MPs having voted in favour of it.

Documents and freedom of information requests reveal how four of the world’s largest tobacco firms – the UK’s Imperial Brands and British American Tobacco (BAT), Japan Tobacco International (JTI) and US-headquartered Philip Morris International (PMI) – put ministers on notice of a legal backlash.

Imperial and BAT wrote to the health secretary, Victoria Atkins, in February, to claim the consultation process preceding legislation was “unlawful” because industry views had not been considered.

The Department of Health and Social Care has said it did not need to consider industry views, pointing to guidance included in a World Health Organization global treaty, signed by the UK, that says governments should form smoking policy without influence from cigarette companies.

You can read all about the investigation by Rob Davies and Matthew Chapman here:

Shadow defence secretary John Healey is also on the broadcast round this morning. In an interview with Sky News, Healey said Nigel Farage needed to “get a grip of his own party” and tackle racist and homophobic activists within Reform UK.

He told Sky News:

To some extent, I see him fuelling a row over this Channel 4 film to distract, really, from the fact that there are officials and there are candidates right at the heart of the Reform party, that have been responsible for racist, anti-gay, and other deeply offensive statements.

And it’s for Farage to take action on them. And in the end, the culture and the standards of any political party are set by the leader and Nigel Farage wants to be seen as a leader.

He needs to get a grip of his own party and he’s failing to do that at the moment.”

He compared the situation to the “very similar challenge” faced by Keir Starmer in tackling the “antisemitism that had been allowed to fester in parts of the Labour party”.

“He did that and that’s the responsibility of any leader of any political party,” said Healey.

Asked if he wanted to be leader, he told Times Radio:

What I want to do is to make sure we’ve got a Conservative leader in this country and that’s why I’m supporting Rishi Sunak. Because the alternative with Keir Starmer, I’m afraid, is higher taxes, more regulation, worse growth and more unemployment.

What we need to do is to make sure that Conservatives across this country win their seats and that’s exactly what I’ve been focused on.”

Pressed again on the issue of what happens after the election, he said:

Well, we’ll deal with hypotheticals in a different way. I mean, the reality is Rishi Sunak is the candidate, there’s only two candidates for prime minister, there’s Rishi Sunak and there’s Sir Keir Starmer.

One of them is committed to lowering your taxes, protecting your borders and making a difference in everybody’s lives. The other, I’m afraid, is Sir Keir Starmer who is committed to raising your taxes, to making life a little bit harder for everybody and to lecturing you on how to live your life.”

During the same interview, Tugendhat said there was a “pattern of racist and misogynistic views” within Reform UK.

He told Times Radio:

There’s many decent people vote for every political party and there’s many decent people who will vote for Reform. But what we’re trying to do is to remind people, to try to make clear to people, what it is that Reform really is.

He said Nigel Farage has “clearly done almost no due diligence on who he’s asking to carry his message”.

“There is a real pattern of racist and misogynistic views in the party. I think it’s absolutely right to call it out,” he added.

Good morning, and welcome to our continued coverage of the 2024 general election campaign. It is the final weekend before voters go to the polls on Thursday 4 July.

Security minister Tom Tugendhat has said there is a “pattern of racist and misogynistic views” within Reform UK.

He told Times Radio:

There’s many decent people vote for every political party and there’s many decent people who will vote for Reform.

But what we’re trying to do is to remind people, to try to make clear to people, what it is that Reform really is.”

He said Nigel Farage has “clearly done almost no due diligence on who he’s asking to carry his message”.

“There is a real pattern of racist and misogynistic views in the party. I think it’s absolutely right to call it out,” he added.

Farage, meanwhile, has claimed that an activist in question, Andrew Parker, is an actor and that the clip was a fabrication. The Reform UK leader repeated his assertion that Channel 4’s footage was a “set up” during last night’s BBC Question Time. Earlier on Friday, he’d appeared on ITV’s Loose Women and said that the Parker incident was orchestrated to discredit his party.

In other news, here are some of the events we can expect politicians to be attending today, according to the PA news agency:

Rishi Sunak will be campaigning with an Armed Forces Day visit near Catterick in his Richmond and Northallerton constituency at 11am. This evening he’ll be at a community visit in Neasden, north west London.
Labour leader Keir Starmer and shadow defence secretary John Healey will join veterans in the Aldershot, Hampshire, at a coffee morning to mark Armed Forces Day at 9am. In the evening, Starmer will speak at a major event in London after speeches from deputy leader Angela Rayner.
Liberal Democrats leader Ed Davey will be out campaigning in Scotland, with a tour that’ll take in Fife, Edinburgh and East Dunbartonshire.
Northern Ireland secretary of state Chris Heaton-Harris will address the Tory manifesto launch event in Belfast.

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Nigel Farage challenged over canvasser's racist slurs - BBC.com

Farage challenged over canvasser's racist slurs

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has repeated his assertion that footage showing racist comments apparently made by one of his party's activists was a "set-up".

He faced angry questions from a BBC Question Time audience over a Channel 4 broadcast which showed Andrew Parker, a canvasser for Reform UK, using a racist term about Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Mr Farage described the comments as a "tirade of invective abuse" but suggested the man may have been paid.

Challenged on other comments made by Reform UK candidates, Mr Farage said he "wouldn't want anything" to do with them and said he had withdrawn his support.

Appearing ahead of Mr Farage on the same programme, Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay condemned Mr Parker's comments as "horrific" and said it was "a stark reminder of the future we could be heading for if people back Reform at the election".

Asked about comments made by some of his own candidates, he said concerns would be properly investigated.

Speaking on Friday, Mr Sunak said the comments in the Channel 4 footage hurt adding: "It makes me angry."

He said his two daughters "have to see and hear Reform people who campaigned for Nigel Farage" using racist language against him.

He said Mr Farage had "some questions to answer".

In addition to the slur directed at the prime minister, Mr Parker was also heard describing Islam as "the most disgusting cult out" and suggesting army recruits should carry out “target practice” by shooting at small boats bringing illegal migrants to the UK.

In a statement, Mr Parker said he wanted to "apologise profusely to Nigel Farage and the Reform Party if my personal views have reflected badly on them and brought them into disrepute as this was not my intention".

Essex Police have said they are "urgently assessing" comments in the programme "to establish if there are any criminal offences".

The subject came up as the first question on the Question Time Leaders' Special when an audience member asked: "What is it about your party that attracts racists?"

Mr Farage argued that he had done more to drive out the far-right than any living person in British politics.

"I took on the BNP just over a decade ago. I said to their voters, if this is a protest vote but you don't support their racist agenda, don't vote for them, vote for me, destroyed them."

He went on to reiterate claims he made earlier in the day that Mr Parker was an actor who had an alter ego and suggested it was "a political setup of astonishing proportions".

"This was designed to hurt us, and sadly some people believe it."

Mr Parker was approached by the BBC about Mr Farage's remarks but did not want to comment.

Channel 4 News said it stood by its "rigorous and duly impartial journalism" adding that it met Mr Parker for the first time at Reform UK party headquarters and had not paid him any money.

Mr Farage was subsequently asked about other comments made by Reform UK candidates including Edward Oakenfull who wrote offensive social media posts about the IQ of sub-Saharan Africans. Mr Oakenfull has told the BBC his comments had been "taken out of context".

Mr Farage said he disowned the candidates in question adding: "I want nothing to do with them."

"You get people in all parties saying bad things and wrong things," he said, arguing it was partly the consequence of having to find candidates quickly following the PM's surprise calling of a general election for July.

Parties can, and have, withdrawn support from their candidates during this election campaign but is too late to stop them appearing on the ballot paper.

Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay was also asked about comments made by some of his candidates in relation to the conflict in Gaza, including one who compared Hamas to French resistance fighters in World War Two.

Mr Ramsay said he didn't support those views adding that any concerns would be "properly investigated through the right channels in the party" - saying that those channels were separate from the leadership.

"Sadly all parties have had candidates who were selected in this election who have no longer gone forward," he said.

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Jay Slater: 'Massive search' for missing teenager set to begin almost two weeks after 19-year-old's disappearance - Sky News

A "massive search" for British teenager Jay Slater will get under way in Tenerife today, almost two weeks after the apprentice bricklayer went missing.

The Civil Guard said they would step up their search for the 19-year-old after appealing for volunteer associations, such as firefighters, and individual volunteers with experience in navigating difficult terrain to help them.

Police and volunteers will begin their search at 9am in the village of Masca, near Mr Slater's last-known location, and attempt to retrace his last-known steps.

In a statement, police said: "The massive search will be carried out on Saturday, 29 June from 9am.

"Bearing in mind that this is an abrupt, rocky area, full of unevenness and with a multitude of ravines, paths and roads, the collaboration of all those associations of volunteers who can help in this raid that is intended to be carried out in a directed and coordinated manner is requested."

Sky's North of England correspondent Shingi Mararike in Tenerife said the search "is perhaps a final push from the Civil Guard to make some kind of headway".

Mr Slater, from Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, disappeared after trying to walk back to his accommodation after missing a bus on Monday last week.

He was last pictured at Papayago, the nightclub hosting the end of the New Rave Generation festival, late on 16 June.

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Slater seen by cafe owner

Ofelia Medina Hernandez said she saw him at 8am on 17 June, and added: "He asked twice what time the bus came.

"He came back and he asked me again, and I told him again, at 10 o'clock. Later I got in my car, and I saw him, he was walking quickly, but I didn't see him again after that."

She said he was walking in the wrong direction.

Last phone call

It comes after one of Mr Slater's friends told ITV's This Morning about his last video call with the 19-year-old.

Brad Hargreaves said he saw the missing teenager's feet slide on rocks during a call at around 8.30am, saying that is how he knew Mr Slater was not on a road.

He then said Mr Slater went down a "little drop" in one of his last video calls, and added: "He said, 'look where I am'.

"He didn't seem concerned on the phone until we knew how far away he was. I said, 'put your location on'. He said: '15-minute drive, 14-hour walk'.

"I don't know if it's accurate or not so I said to him: 'It's only a 15-minute drive, get a taxi'."

Search teams coordinated by the Civil Guard have since mounted a huge manhunt using helicopters, drones and search dogs to scour mountainous areas of the island, but are yet to find the teenager.

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