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Warming up into next week – is summer weather finally on the way?
The first widespread warmth of summer is expected into next week, following a chilly start to June.
With more analysis on that inflation target of 2% being reached, our economics correspondent Helia Ebrahimi is here.
It’s taken nearly three years, but the inflation rate has finally fallen back to the Bank of England’s target.
FactCheck takes a look at some of the key claims John Swinney and his manifesto are making.
High fashion and the headlines collide as Naomi Campbell becomes the first supermodel in history to have a retrospective at the V&A. We met its star and yes, she was fashionably late. Minnie Stephenson: It’s very rare for anybody to have an exhibition about their entire life when they’re still alive in the way that…
Watch Channel 4 News’ live debate – ‘The UK Decides: Immigration, Law and Order’.
The Green party and Liberal Democrats have published their manifestos – but both include images that appear not to be located in the UK, such as a hospital in South Africa and a wind farm in the Netherlands, FactCheck has found.
Meanwhile, just 34% think Labour will meet its net migration pledge.
The first widespread warmth of summer is expected into next week, following a chilly start to June.
The Reform Party has published its version of a manifesto, which it calls a “Contract”. Multiple images feature locations that appear to not be in the UK, including a family that appear to be in Slovenia and a fishing vessel displaying two German flags, in what seems to be German waters, FactCheck has found.
The SNP is preparing to launch its election manifesto this week, promising to put independence on the first page.
Labour’s Steve Reed, who’s the shadow environment secretary, joins us in Westminster.
We spoke to environment minister Rebecca Pow.
It’s a time when the climate is facing ever increasing chaos. Extreme weather, record heat waves, but instead of becoming a high profile election issue, it’s barely featured in the campaign at all.
Carl Emmerson from the Independent Institute for Fiscal Studies, which studies UK Government taxation and spending, spoke to me earlier, and I began by asking what he makes of Reform UK’s position on tax cuts.
The Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has been setting out his party’s pledges – including sweeping tax cuts, slashing immigration – and scrapping the UK’s Net Zero targets.