Below is a list of the subjects for discussion on Monday 10th June.
2024 General Election. Nineteen days in – how’s it going?
| Week 1 3/6 | Week 2 10/6 | Week 3 17/6 | Week 4 24/6 | Week 5 1/7 | |
| How many voting | 21 | ||||
| Cons, Governing majority | 0 | ||||
| Cons Largest Party | 0 | ||||
| Lab Governing Majority | 13 (61%) | ||||
| Lab Largest party | 8 (38%) | ||||
| Will the SNP Do Well? | 0 | ||||
| Will Reform get an MPs? | 0-11(52%) 1-8(38%) | ||||
| Will Nigel Farage get elected? | |||||
| Green Party, how many MPs | 0-5(23%) 1-14(66%) 2-1(4%) |
- The Election
Analysis: Where the Salford scrap leaves Starmer and Sunak
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmjjzxg7k6no
Nigel Farage to stand for Reform UK in general election U-turn
Tories pledge to tackle 'confusion' over legal definition of sex
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0kkvkkejgno
Lib Dems pledge free personal care for adults
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjmmww3ne8wo
Lib Dems would extend free school meals to all primary schoolchildren, says Ed Davey
Talking Points
The election debate. The lie – how badly will it backfire on Sunak.
Will the conservative false claim about labour taxes blow back on them reducing their credibility.
Nigel Farage joins the fray. Will the milkshake help or hinder his campaign
Labour on Defence
Conservative on Gender
Uk Labour law Labour
Labour would use nuclear weapons.
Sunak leaving D-Day event early.
- 2. D-Day 80th Anniversary
Gave us freedom' - Veterans celebrated in Normandy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7228rq2nelo
D-day 80th anniversary comes at time of conflict and growing carelessness
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/06/d-day-80th-anniversary-conflict-carelessness
- 3. Infected Blood scandal
Andy Burnam wants charges of corporate manslaughter 'An abuse by people supposedly there to care'.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgxx8yz150ko
Another state failure – will things ever change? ‘Who do you trust to keep you safe?’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1997z82gdro
- 4. Things Can Only Get Better group ban Labour from using song
This song has entered the cultural norm, everyone knows it and knows its first use, the group have surely lost it to the public can they really claim it back? It was released in 1993.
- 5. A Sikh court is being established in London.
The world is getting its first Sikh court in London. That’s a threat to women’s rights
- 6. Venice wants to ban large groups of Tourists.
Venice bans large tourist groups and loudspeakers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyjjy78n9zno
- 7. Indian Election and South African election.
India’s opposition looked down and out – now they’re back
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp00jze920eo
- 8. Welsh first minister loses confidence vote – refuses to resign.
FM won't quit after losing vote of no confidence