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Tory PM David Cameron was accused yesterday of trying to buy the general election by busting spending limits by more than £6 million.
His government has raised the campaign spending ceiling by £6.2 million — double the figure recommended by the Electoral Commission — to £32.7 million.
The changes to election spending law were quietly slipped through Parliament without any scrutiny from MPs or peers.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT