Campaign catchup: Fake figures, stealth taxes and a speeding Lib Dem

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Campaign catchup: Fake figures, stealth taxes and a speeding Lib Dem
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In today’s newsletter: The day after Sunak’s dubious £2,000 tax bomb, debate punditry is getting out of control

In today’s newsletter: The day after Sunak’s dubious £2,000 tax bomb, debate punditry is getting out of controlit? Stop stalling and speak up! Who won it! Somebody must have won it, who was it! I have £2,000 riding on this!

That is probably all you need to know about that, but it is certainly not all you’re going to hear about it. Starmer’s failure to challenge the figure became a central plank of the post-match analysis. This was widely put together with a snap YouGov poll that found Sunak beating Starmer on who viewers thought had won by 51% to 49%. Traditionally Conservative newspapers said Starmer was “

The other thing worth keeping in mind: many of those coming down on the side of “Sunak was telling the truth and/or is being clever” are incentivised to construct a Conservative comeback in the days ahead – either because that’s who they like, or because it makes things more interesting than a procession to a large Starmer majority.

The result was a predictable disaster: rents in inner city areas were increasing exponentially, but the benefits people could claim to pay them were not … The effect was obvious: tenants who were either out of work, or employed in one of the many critical sectors where wages are too low to cover the rent, could no longer pay the bills. They started to lose their homes.

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