But you used the private sector while a Labour government improved public services:

“Since I made that decision Labour built five new secondary schools in Hackney, one of them with some of the best GCSE results in the country. I wouldn’t have to make the same choice today.”

Suggestion is that some v influential folk have argued that Reform challenge for Tories will only get worse and so better to rip off plaster. But others still saying better to wait til autumn and hope people feel financially better off 2/

Most folk in Downing Street and CCHQ will still make argument for an Autumn election- but sources tell me some v senior folk have made argument for alternative- calling it immediately after locals and holding on July 4 👇1/

I'm not sure this police investigation into whether Angela Rayner broke electoral law will get very far. When we found on C4 News in Stoke by-election that Ukip leader was registered at address he'd told me he'd never yet visited, Staffs police investigated & dropped the case.

Angela Rayner MP, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, said:
 
“I’ve repeatedly said I would welcome the chance to sit down with the appropriate authorities, including the police and HMRC, to set out the facts and draw a line under this matter. I am completely confident I’ve…

NEW: Rayner turns up the heat on GMP…

“if I committed a criminal offence, I would of course do the right thing and step down.”

Andrew Mitchell “has been given the honorific title of Deputy Foreign Secretary.”

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Reports that Serbia (aided by Vladimir Putin) may invade Kosovo are credible. This obviously increases the risk of a wider conflict in Europe. It underlines how serious situations can erupt out of nowhere. When the unthinkable becomes unavoidable, we go to war with the armed…

“General political lines” agreed on the airport, goods and mobility at top-level Gibraltar EU treaty talks in Brussels.

Outside the European Commission, Fabian Picardo said there has been significant progress but that negotiations are not over.

Wes Streeting's dramatic u-turn, the Angela Rayner tax scandal and the inside scoop on Donald Trump's dinner with David Cameron.

Political Editor Harry Cole brings you all of this and more in his column today in The Sun.

thesun.co.uk/news/27267695/…

The Bank of England got its forecasts so wrong about the economy and threat of inflation partly because its IT systems were out of date, a report by Ben Bernanke has found.

Rare interview from inside the car rather than through the window.

GMP Spokesperson said: “We’re investigating whether any offences have been committed.
'This follows a reassessment of the information provided to us…”

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NEW: Police investigating Angela Rayner over claims she may have broken electoral law thesun.co.uk/news/27275344/…

🗞️ Dave and Don, Rayner’s claims and common sense at last…

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The Sun has far more Labour voting readers than the Guardian has readers at all.

I recall Tony Blair, as leader of the opposition, once citing an indignant party activist: “I know Tories who are voting for you….”