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The Guardian – Sunak begins election campaign by abandoning flagship policies The Guardian leads on the first day of the general election campaign. Rishi Sunak has dropped flagship policies on deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda and banning smoking for young people on the first full day of his election campaign, leaving his legacy increasingly threadbare, the paper writes.  Sunak is pictured on the front page stepping off a plane – as he touched down in Wales for a whistlestop tour. Elsewhere, the paper reports on Post Office boss Paula Vennells who appeared at the Post Office Inquiry yesterday. The paper…

Western Mail – NHS waiting lists hit record high The Western Mail leads on newly released NHS figures showing more people are waiting for healthcare treatment in Wales than ever before. NHS data released by the Welsh Government showed rises in the number of people on waiting lists, longer waits in A&E, fewer cancer patients starting treatment within the two-month target and ambulances taking longer to get to the most urgent calls. The figures released on Thursday show winter pressures and strike disruption have been extremely disruptive for the NHS. There were around 591,600 individual patients on waiting lists for…

The National – Scottish Lib Dem candidate gave £25k to Boris The National’s lead story is an exclusive on Lib Dem candidate and businessman Angus MacDonald who donated £25,000 to the Conservatives under Boris Johnson. MacDonald hopes to rekindle the Lib Dem vote in their former Highland heartlands by taking the new Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire seat from the SNP, the paper writes. But there are questions about his commitment to his new party’s stated pro-EU stance after The National revealed his previous support for the Tories in the run-up to the 2019 election. Boris Johnson’s 2019 campaign was…

The Herald (Scotland) – FM’s election launch marred by police move on SNP fraud probe The Scottish Herald’s leading story reports that police in Scotland have launched a formal investigation into potential criminality involving SNP fundraising. The force, which has been assessing a fraud allegation from a member of the public since late March, said it had escalated its work after consulting with prosecutors. The paper notes the situation has been a blow to John Swinney’s bid to kick off the SNP’s general election campaign.  Elsewhere, a large image of PM Rishi Sunak on the campaign trail is featured on…

Today’s biggest trending story is on the general election, announced yesterday, the snap election will take place in just six weeks.

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Starmer warns of ‘difficult choices’ over NHS, tuition fees and two-child benefit cap – UK politics live Labour leader quizzed on Today show says damage to economy means he cannot implement ‘ideal world’ policies Good morning. Keir Starmer has been giving interviews this morning, including on the Today programme. Labour is promising “change” but today Starmer seemed determined to temper expectations, repeatedly stressing that that there were things he would like to do in “an ideal world” which voters should not be expecting after 4 July. When Starmer was running for the Labour leadership in 2020, he said he supported…

One of the lead trending stories in the UK today reports that a 10-year-old schoolgirl, on a school trip, was killed in a mudslide.

Now, it has been revealed that a joint investigation is being carried out by North Yorkshire Police and the Health and Safety Executive to establish what happened.

Leah Harrison, 10, was caught up in the disaster near Carlton-in-Cleveland, North Yorkshire, while on the trip to Carlton Adventure after a morning of persistent rain.