2024 General Election. Two and a half days to go.
| Week 1 3/6 | Week 2 10/6 | Week 3 17/6 | Week 4 24/6 | Week 5 1/7 | |
| How many voting | 21 | 17 | 12 | 15 | |
| Cons, Governing majority | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cons Largest Party | 0 | 1 (6%) | 0 | 1 (6%) | |
| Lab Governing Majority | 13 (61%) | 13 (76%) | 12 (100%) | 14 (93%) | |
| Lab Largest party | 8 (38%) | 2 (11%) | 0 | 1 (6%) | |
| SNP Do Well? | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Reform to get MPs? | 0-11(52%) | 6 (35%) | 1 (8%) | 8 (53%) | |
| 1-8(38%) | 8 (47%) | 3 (25%) | 5 (33%) | ||
| > 1 | 3 (17%) | 6 (50%) | 3 (2%) | ||
| Will Nigel Farage get elected? | 9 (53%) | 8 (66%) | 8 (53%) | ||
| Green Party, how many MPs | 0-5(23%) | 1 (6%) | 0 | 1 (6%) | |
| 1-14(66%) | 11 (64%) | 4 (33%) | 8 (53%) | ||
| 2-1(4%) | 5 (29%) | 6 (50%) | 5 (33%) |
- Election
Nigel Farage claims Russia was provoked into Ukraine war
Rivals attack Farage for saying West provoked Ukraine war
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cldd44zv3kpo
JK Rowling accuses Labour of abandoning women
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cndd65k06x8o.amp
Greens' tax rises are modest, insists co-leader
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c14448vez8eo
JK Rowling accuses Labour of abandoning women
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cndd65k06x8o
1a. Tax
Nearly 9mn pensioners paying income tax as frozen thresholds bite
https://www.ftadviser.com/pensions/2024/06/27/nearly-9mn-pensioners-paying-income-tax-this-year
Number of UK income tax payers leaps by 4.4m in three years due to threshold freeze
Tax rises hard to avoid over next 5 years, says IFS
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckkkk90lw50o
Britain’s millionaires are fleeing. Good night and good luck, I say
Betting on the date of the Election all the fuss seems to have drowned any talk of policy.
Warnings of a super majority, is this an attack strategy or a defensive one.
Leaders debate “ is this the best we have got?”
- 2. French Elections
French election: Your guide to a vote that is set to shake the EU and NATO
The French election risks torpedoing the global order
Far-right National Rally ready to govern France, Jordan Bardella says at manifesto launch
Britons think UK is in a bad way, but French more pessimistic, survey shows
Macron's election gamble puts French democracy on the table
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cekk9n1je9yo
Le Pen raises the stakes by challenging Macron’s role as commander-in-chief
https://www.politico.eu/article/marine-le-pen-emmanuel-macron-jordan-bardella-ukraine-france
- 3, American Presidential Debate
Stumbling debate performance worsens age fears for Biden
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgedpw4r5eo
US election 2024: A really simple guide
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67285325
- 4. NHS
Can’t get a doctor’s appointment yet locum GPs can’t get work.
Four in five locum GPs in England unable to find work, BMA study finds
Doctors go on strike
11th strike of junior doctor pay dispute begins
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmmm23n9761o
NHS Waiting lists – why are they so long
NHS backlog data analysis
The past and future of NHS waiting lists in England
https://ifs.org.uk/publications/past-and-future-nhs-waiting-lists-england
- 5. Julian Assange freed.
Julian Assange: Campaigner or attention seeker?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-11047811
Wikileaks founder freed after five years in prison
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crgggyvp0j9o
- 6. Wandsworth council to ban leaving e-bikes on pavement.
London council to ban leaving e-bikes on pavements
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c28808jjrx1o
- 7. Post Office Horizon Scandal
Post Office system not a scandal, insists ex-union boss
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyxxz799vxko
- 8. NHS Blood test database hack – Why is it taking so long to recover?
NHS confirms stolen data published online is from blood test provider