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My eyes will be watching Tory reactions to the goings on. There is a jittery atmosphere within the Tories atm. They know that the longer they put off an election, the more it will imped their chances of success at an individual level.

There are a lot of Labour bias opinions pushing the theory that Sunak doesn't care about the next election results, and that he is only pushing for his own families gain with an Indian trade deal. Add in that Modi pushed Sunak aside by cancelled a planned meeting with Sunak at the last minute. Sunak was also very much in the spotlight for taking no part in the India trade route initiative.

A Cabinet level politician told i anonymously that both parties would love to scrap the triple lock but “no one wants to be the first to do it” for fear of older voters deserting them

I find this one a strange one to push from Inews. It is from one cabinet minister so it has obvious Tory bias. This goes against what Raynor was pushing at the TUC, who said they will increase state aid in an attempt to redress the balance. There is a difference between not promising something and not being able to cost it properly yet. Labour have the difficulty with costing and the way the government hides so many figures.

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It can't be overstated. I don't want another Blair Mountain, but we'd be incredibly lucky to have that many people with that much backbone around standing up for workers. Between the legalized prisoner slavery and the relaxed child labor laws in the US these days, it's disappointing that we aren't seeing a more firm resistance from the working class.