General election 2024: Starmer requires nearer ties with EU as Abbott ‘stopped from standing for Labour’ | EUROtoday

The intervention on sick pay will assist an estimated 1.5 million who should not coated by the principles and both must work by sickness or keep at house with out monetary assist.

Political editor David Maddox and political correspondent Archie Mitchell report:

Labour is now main over the Tories by solely 12 factors, a brand new ballot has revealed.

The hole between the 2 important events surprisingly narrowed after a bumpy opening week to the overall election marketing campaign for the prime minister.

Sir Keir Starmer’s occasion has 40 per cent assist, whereas Rishi Sunak’s occasion has 28 per cent.

Labour’s lead has slipped from 15 factors in early May and 18 factors the earlier month, in response to the ballot by JL Partners, which was performed on Friday and Saturday.

Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to inform hospitals from day one in every of a Labour authorities to arrange night and weekend clinics to chop NHS ready lists.

The Labour chief advised the Mirror that “crack teams” who’re already working out-of-hours programmes throughout the nation will assist arrange the clinics in the remainder of the well being service.

If it wins the General Election, Labour will initially deal with decreasing remedy backlogs, which at present stand at 7.54 million.

Our relationship with the continent is the largest problem of our time, writes former deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine.

Yet our political leaders are so afraid of the far proper’s grip on this nation that they refuse to do something about it.

What are the problems this nation ought to be discussing?

None of those points will be truthfully addressed in isolation from our relationship with Europe.”

Political promoting is banned on TikTok, although each events will probably be hoping content material reaches the precise audiences by the app’s advanced consumer algorithms.

Labour launched its account on the app three days earlier than the Conservatives – posting an 11-second video on Thursday night of chief Sir Keir Starmer declaring: “Change. That is what this election is about.”

“I thought it might be a good thing [to do],” remembers Emmy Vilander.

When Vilander turned 18, like everybody her age in Sweden, she was despatched an official electronic mail by the federal government.

It requested her whether or not she’d contemplate conscription into the nation’s army beneath Sweden’s “total defence” service and requested her how match she was, if she had any well being points and what her motivation can be.

Not lengthy after that, she discovered herself in Sweden’s far north studying tips on how to strip down a rifle, shoot a gun and construct a shelter.

“You learn a lot about yourself – that you can do more than you think you can do,” she tells Denyer. “I thought it was going to be so hard – and it was – but it was also fun.”

Diane Abbott has been given again the Labour whip, it’s understood.

The Press Association information company understands the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington was given again the Labour whip earlier on Tuesday – however sources advised The Times such a transfer can be made to permit her to go away politics “with dignity” reasonably than stand once more for the occasion.

In his first main coverage proposal for the reason that normal election was introduced the prime minister insisted his plans for obligatory nationwide service would assist unite society.

The actual plans stay imprecise, however the occasion stated younger individuals can be given a alternative between a full-time placement within the armed forces for 12 months or spending one weekend a month for a yr “volunteering,” of their group.

Labour frontbencher Liz Kendall accused the Conservatives of merely “asking young people to solve the problems in the NHS, the police and the armed services that the Tories themselves have created”.

Now we wish to know what you suppose. Do you again Mr Sunak’s plans for nationwide service?