Corbyn Does A Prince Andrew Interview On Andrew Neil Show.
Johnson v Neil Boris Johnson's apparent reluctance to agree to an interview with the BBC's Andrew Neil preoccupies a number of the papers this morning. The presenter is due to interview the leaders of all the main political parties in the run-up to the election - but according to the Times, Conservative sources have suggested Mr Johnson may decline to take part. The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who was interviewed earlier this week, was heavily criticised after Andrew Neil confronted him over his handling of claims of anti-Semitism in the party. The Guardian says Labour are now accusing the prime minister of "running scared". The Telegraph also reports on the row, but says it's Mr Corbyn who's dodging the limelight. The paper says he's decided not to take part in two television debates in the wake of his clash with Andrew Neil.
The row between Labour and the Conservatives over the future of the NHS makes the lead for both the Guardian and the Daily Mirror. The Guardian says Boris Johnson's insistence that the NHS is "not on the table" has been "undermined" by the release of government papers, detailing discussions between UK and US trade officials. The paper says Washington wants the UK to rip up the way it sets drug prices - potentially leading to billions of pounds a year in extra costs for the NHS. The Mirror carries a full-page picture of the document on its front page, with the word "sensitive" circled in red - "The Proof" is the headline. But the Sun has a different take - the paper accuses Jeremy Corbyn of "throwing up a smokescreen" to deflect criticism of his stance on anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.
Predicting the outcome With just two weeks to go until the election, many of the papers are trying to predict the outcome - with the help of the latest opinion polls. The Times leads with the results of a YouGov poll, which suggests Boris Johnson is heading for a "comfortable majority". The paper says the same seat-by-seat analysis - based on the views of 100,000 voters - accurately predicted the outcome of the last election in 2017. The i paper leads with the same poll - which has a wide margin of error - under the headline "Johnson on course to break deadlock". By contrast, the front page of the Daily Telegraph carries a warning from the prime minister's advisor that the general election is still "too close to call". The paper quotes a blog, written by Dominic Cummings, which says a hung parliament is a "very real possibility" - with "things much tighter than they seem". The blog is described as a "bat signal" - the distress sign used to summon the comic book hero Batman - to warn that "Brexit is in danger". HuffPost UK political editor Paul Waugh accuses Dominic Cummings of engaging in a "very old fashioned game" of managing expectations - warning Leave voters not to be lulled by a big poll showing a large lead for the Tories. The Spectator's Katy Balls says that senior Conservatives won't be celebrating the results of the poll - fearing instead that it could make voters feel complacent, or compel the opposition parties to "think again about tactical voting." The mood in Conservative Campaign HQ will be one of "trepidation" says the magazine's deputy political editor, as they work out how best to "hold their lead until polling day". Stephen Bush, of the New Statesman, argues that the poll could be interpreted as good news for Liberal Democrats in marginal seats. He says "if I were Liberal Democrat HQ I would absolutely be gagging for it to be covered as if it were delivered by the Almighty on two stone tablets".
The YouGov 'MRP' analysis released yesterday evening showed Mr Johnson's Conservative Party could win 359 seats out of 650, up from 317 in the 2017 general election. They would also take 43 per cent of the vote. If the Tories managed to secure that on December 12 it would make it the party's best performance since 1987. The Labour Party looks on track to secure 211 seats, down from 262, which would be its second worst defeat since World War Two. The modelling also reveals they would not win any new seats. The Liberal Democrats on 13 seats, are only up one from the last election, despite a predicted increase in vote share from 8 per cent in 2017 to 14 per cent. In Scotland, the SNP are set to get 43 seats, an increase of 8, but vitally for Mr Johnson only two come from his party.
Revealed: Labour's triple tax whammy on MILLIONS as low-income families, small businesses and married couples stand to lose out despite Jeremy Corbyn claiming it will only hit the rich
Politics in the School Curriculum ; Government approved.
Today Children we will be teaching Politics and discussing manifesto's. You will then be voting for your chosen Candidate ....... you get to chose the best.
Racism row after Tory tells Labour rival he's "talking through his turban" Labour candidate Kuldip Sahota claimed Tory Philip Dunne made the comment at the general election debate in Shropshire - with audience members saying the "lack of reaction" to the comment was "appalling"
Do they even do the basic maths of such a claim? 60m trees a year works out to be... 5m trees planted a month. 1.153,846m trees planted each week. 164,383 trees planted each and every day,7 days a week.
A more feasible way of reducing climate change would be if politicians stopped spouting so much bull every time they opened their mouths.
Not to be outdone Labour has jumped on the tree bandwagon...
Do they even do the basic maths of such a claim? 60m trees a year works out to be... 5m trees planted a month. 1.153,846m trees planted each week. 164,383 trees planted each and every day,7 days a week.
A more feasible way of reducing climate change would be if politicians stopped spouting so much bull every time they opened their mouths.
Not to be outdone Labour has jumped on the tree bandwagon...
Frozen out There is widespread interest in last night's Channel 4 leaders' debate on climate change - not so much for the subject under discussion, but the station's refusal to allow the former Environment Secretary Michael Gove to stand in for Boris Johnson and the decision to replace the prime minister with a melting ice sculpture. According to the HuffPost UK website, the PM's father, Stanley Johnson, also turned up and offered to take his son's place. The BuzzFeed News website says the Conservative threat to reassess the station's public service broadcasting licence if they win the election, is a dramatic escalation of the war of words between the Tories and Channel 4.
For its main story, the Daily Mirror reports that the prime minister used a Spectator magazine article in the 1990s to launch an attack on working class men and single mothers. According to the paper, he dismissed working-class men as "likely to be drunk, criminal, aimless, feckless and hopeless", and described single mothers as "irresponsible".
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Boris Johnson's apparent reluctance to agree to an interview with the BBC's Andrew Neil preoccupies a number of the papers this morning. The presenter is due to interview the leaders of all the main political parties in the run-up to the election - but according to the Times, Conservative sources have suggested Mr Johnson may decline to take part.
The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who was interviewed earlier this week, was heavily criticised after Andrew Neil confronted him over his handling of claims of anti-Semitism in the party.
The Guardian says Labour are now accusing the prime minister of "running scared". The Telegraph also reports on the row, but says it's Mr Corbyn who's dodging the limelight. The paper says he's decided not to take part in two television debates in the wake of his clash with Andrew Neil.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-50581462
The Guardian says Boris Johnson's insistence that the NHS is "not on the table" has been "undermined" by the release of government papers, detailing discussions between UK and US trade officials. The paper says Washington wants the UK to rip up the way it sets drug prices - potentially leading to billions of pounds a year in extra costs for the NHS.
The Mirror carries a full-page picture of the document on its front page, with the word "sensitive" circled in red - "The Proof" is the headline. But the Sun has a different take - the paper accuses Jeremy Corbyn of "throwing up a smokescreen" to deflect criticism of his stance on anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.
Predicting the outcome
With just two weeks to go until the election, many of the papers are trying to predict the outcome - with the help of the latest opinion polls.
The Times leads with the results of a YouGov poll, which suggests Boris Johnson is heading for a "comfortable majority". The paper says the same seat-by-seat analysis - based on the views of 100,000 voters - accurately predicted the outcome of the last election in 2017. The i paper leads with the same poll - which has a wide margin of error - under the headline "Johnson on course to break deadlock".
By contrast, the front page of the Daily Telegraph carries a warning from the prime minister's advisor that the general election is still "too close to call". The paper quotes a blog, written by Dominic Cummings, which says a hung parliament is a "very real possibility" - with "things much tighter than they seem". The blog is described as a "bat signal" - the distress sign used to summon the comic book hero Batman - to warn that "Brexit is in danger".
HuffPost UK political editor Paul Waugh accuses Dominic Cummings of engaging in a "very old fashioned game" of managing expectations - warning Leave voters not to be lulled by a big poll showing a large lead for the Tories.
The Spectator's Katy Balls says that senior Conservatives won't be celebrating the results of the poll - fearing instead that it could make voters feel complacent, or compel the opposition parties to "think again about tactical voting." The mood in Conservative Campaign HQ will be one of "trepidation" says the magazine's deputy political editor, as they work out how best to "hold their lead until polling day".
Stephen Bush, of the New Statesman, argues that the poll could be interpreted as good news for Liberal Democrats in marginal seats. He says "if I were Liberal Democrat HQ I would absolutely be gagging for it to be covered as if it were delivered by the Almighty on two stone tablets".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-50581462
The YouGov 'MRP' analysis released yesterday evening showed Mr Johnson's Conservative Party could win 359 seats out of 650, up from 317 in the 2017 general election. They would also take 43 per cent of the vote. If the Tories managed to secure that on December 12 it would make it the party's best performance since 1987. The Labour Party looks on track to secure 211 seats, down from 262, which would be its second worst defeat since World War Two. The modelling also reveals they would not win any new seats. The Liberal Democrats on 13 seats, are only up one from the last election, despite a predicted increase in vote share from 8 per cent in 2017 to 14 per cent. In Scotland, the SNP are set to get 43 seats, an increase of 8, but vitally for Mr Johnson only two come from his party.
Revealed: Labour's triple tax whammy on MILLIONS as low-income families, small businesses and married couples stand to lose out despite Jeremy Corbyn claiming it will only hit the rich
Politics in the School Curriculum ; Government approved.
Today Children we will be teaching Politics and discussing manifesto's. You will then be voting for your chosen Candidate ....... you get to chose the best.
Labour candidate Kuldip Sahota claimed Tory Philip Dunne made the comment at the general election debate in Shropshire - with audience members saying the "lack of reaction" to the comment was "appalling"
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/racism-row-tory-accuses-labour-20978915
Are they sure it’s snuff in that box?
Life’s just sooo complicated.
Frozen out
There is widespread interest in last night's Channel 4 leaders' debate on climate change - not so much for the subject under discussion, but the station's refusal to allow the former Environment Secretary Michael Gove to stand in for Boris Johnson and the decision to replace the prime minister with a melting ice sculpture.
According to the HuffPost UK website, the PM's father, Stanley Johnson, also turned up and offered to take his son's place. The BuzzFeed News website says the Conservative threat to reassess the station's public service broadcasting licence if they win the election, is a dramatic escalation of the war of words between the Tories and Channel 4.
For its main story, the Daily Mirror reports that the prime minister used a Spectator magazine article in the 1990s to launch an attack on working class men and single mothers. According to the paper, he dismissed working-class men as "likely to be drunk, criminal, aimless, feckless and hopeless", and described single mothers as "irresponsible".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-50596131
Andrew's giving thanks he was interviewed by Emily Maitlis and NOT Andrew Neil!'
So we need to find 12.5million acres of land.