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Labour set up a faux “Rishi’s Mega Mortgages” shopfront on the campaign trail in south London on Friday 28 June.The tagline on the bright blue signage, which includes pictures of prime minister Rishi Sunak’s floating head with a wheeler-dealer style glinting tooth, reads in bright yellow: “Every deal will leave you worse off!”The number “£4,800” was also featured in the biggest font, emblazoned across the front, with one window for each digit.“Here’s my deal of the day. Your mortgage up £4,800”, the shopfront reads underneath.The signage also said “Rishi’s latest raw deals” and “you should be grateful”. More

Nigel Farage said a Reform UK campaigner who made homophobic remarks did so because he’d “watched England play football” and “was drunk.”An undercover Channel 4 reporter’s recording in Clacton showed a canvasser describing the Pride flag as “degenerate” and suggesting members of the LGBT community are paedophiles.“People when they’re drunk often turn quite nasty. It was unforgivably nasty,” the party leader told Loose Women panellists on Friday, 28 June.The Channel 4 footage also captured campaigners using a racial slur and suggesting migrants should be used as “target practice”.Mr Farage has sought to distance himself from the comments, saying he was “dismayed” by the “appalling sentiments” expressed. More

Revelations of “clearly racist” comments by Reform UK canvassers are a “test of leadership” for Nigel Farage, Sir Keir Starmer has said.The Labour leader told BBC Breakfast on Friday 28 June that he was “shocked” by what he heard in the Channel 4 News report.“I was shocked by what I heard in the report, clearly racist, and I think this is a test of leadership,” Sir Keir said.“It’s for a leader to change his or her party, to make sure the culture is right, and the standards are understood by everybody within the party.” More

Nigel Farage has responded to a Channel 4 News undercover investigation within the Reform UK campaign that exposed examples of racist language.An undercover reporter recorded one canvasser calling for migrants crossing the English Channel to be used as “target practice” and another Reform UK activist using a racial slur to describe Rishi Sunak.In a separate video shared by Channel 4 News after the footage was shared, Mr Farage was asked if he would “apologise” to the prime minister.“It was horrible,” he responded.When pressed again, he added: “How much further can I go? Of course it is an apology, it was horrible.” More

Gillian Keegan appeared to suggest a Sky News presenter didn’t “understand economics” during an interview on Friday morning (28 June).The education secretary clashed with Matt Barbet over inflation and whether or not Liz Truss was to blame for the state of the economy in recent months.“There has been a massive jump in inflation under your watch,” Mr Barbet said.“Well, you can thank Vladimir Putin and his invasion of Ukraine for that,” Ms Keegan replied, before the presenter pointed out that a lot of people blame Ms Truss.There pair then went back and forth on “understanding economics” and the factors behind high energy prices and inflation. More

A BBCQuestion Time audience member clashed with Yvette Cooper after accusing the politician of failing to give a “yes or no” answer to a viewer’s question about people dying while crossing the English Channel on small boats.The shadow home secretary and fellow panellists were asked if tragedies, such as a seven-year-old girl dying after being suffocated beneath a crush of bodies inside an inflatable boat, were a direct result of not providing safe and legal routes for migrants.As Ms Cooper explained Labour’s position, an audience member interrupted to tell her that she had failed to give a “yes or no” answer.”This is the issue with politics,” the viewer added. More

Labour’s promises to tackle knife crime are like “putting a collar on an XL Bully” dog, a BBC Question Time audience member said on Thursday’s (27 June) episode.The party’s manifesto says they aim to halve knife crime in a decade and pledges that every young person caught in possession of a knife will be referred to a youth offending team and will receive a plan to prevent reoffending, with penalties including curfews, tagging, and custody.Steven Rhodes, whose friend Tom Ellis died after was stabbed in Nuneaton on 8 June, described Labour’s plans to tag offenders as “like putting a collar on an XL Bully… it can still bite you.” More

Kemi Badenoch vowed that she will “never going to shut up” about the “divisive agenda of diversity politics” as she spoke at The British Chambers of Commerce annual conference on Thursday, 27 June.The equalities minister told an audience that Labour’s “vision of the future economy is one that micromanages your businesses to meet their political objectives and that includes – my favourite topic of course – the divisive agenda of identity politics”.It came after David Tennant said he wished the Conservative politician would “shut up” and suggested he hoped for a world in which she “doesn’t exist anymore”, while she fired back that he was a “bigot” in a row over LGBTQ+ rights. More