-Politics Home doing a list of which Mp's are standing, which are going
-Thornberry urges May to summon Russia ambassador over Chechnya's treatment of homosexuals
-Probate fees rise scrapped
-Farron urging Remain Tories to oppose hard Brexit
-Corbyn attacks supersized classes, Tories put to Wales 18% rise in such classes, would abolish zero hour contracts and says he loves campaigning, feels Labour are already making a lot of ground
-Dawn Butler's claim that May is trying to rig democracy (by calling an election) is not helping Labour and idea of rolling manifesto, wonder if that could be an issue.
-Farron being challenged in his seat by Mr Fish Finger
-Antonio Tajani, president of the European parliament would be very happy to welcome us back
-Leaked EU guidelines suggest they want us to honour billions in budget commitments, guarantee lifelong rights for EU citizens in Britain, and stay bound to the European court of justice
-Patel has written to MP's with a long defence of Dfird's work amidst rumours the 0.7% target would be axed though May (apparently persuaded by Ruth Davidson) has now said it will be kept
-Tory MP's are being invited to give idea's for manifesto
-Tory HQ fears polls are leading to unrealistic expectations of what would be a good win
-Lib Dems emergency appeal for election funds has raised more then double Labour but the latter should be able to tap up union funding
-Stormont talks extended to June 29th (I said N.Ireland councils were setting business rates, turns out it was distract rates, my mistake)
-Sturgeon makes clear she sees Scottish Tories as big threat in local election but suggests some of their candidates are akin to UKIP
-May has lost communications chief Katie Perrior and press secretary Lizzie Loudon since that election announcement, Vote Leave's Rob Oxley is Tory's head of media for election
-Ofcom delays report into Fox bid for Sky till June 20th aka after election
-May warns election can not be taken for granted
-Hammond hopes this manifesto will give more flexibility with econimic policy which is pretty much seen as "please allow me to raise Vat and National Insurance"
-McCluskey wins Unite elections, a boost to Corbyn. Winner got 59,067 votes (46%), Gerard Coyne 53,544 (41%) and Ian Allinson 17,143 (13%), in a turnout of just over 12.2%. Coyne's strategy to reach out beyond that hardcore 15% to get them to vote clearly didn't work but he did quite well getting so close in McCluskey's heartland, might not be comfort given his suspension though. Coyne says machine made it impossible for some of his supporters to vote and tried to bully him
-Election Commission investigating Leave.EU for alleged spending offences in referendum
-A sense Tories are refusing to commit to pension triple lock
-Retail sales fell by 1.8% which is far more then expected. 7 year worst result with quarter of 1.4% fall, pound slips
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-Valarie Vaz attacks in Commons don't land
-Farage not standing as he would have won this time but felt Brussels work more important
-Gisela Stuart warns Parliament has difficult task with Brexit
-Carswell doubts UKIP will ever another MP
-Ed Balls not returning this time
-Dugher retiring, a small tear rolling down Corbyn's cheek
-Daily Mirror doing the chicken thing on May
-Baroness Prosser compares Unite's suspension of Coyne to North Korea. As concerning as Unite suspending McCluskey's rival is, not sure people should use North Korea as an example of anything
-Telegraphs Chris Chope fearing manifesto is not going to proper Tory
-Blair predicts large Tory majority
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-The Economist welcomes election
-Kuessenberg on May and Corbyn touching on same vein of anger
-D'Arcy prasies the skill of Carswell
-Iain Watson on Corbyn's strong start
-Hardman on Labour backbench tactics won't work in election
-Gabby Hinsliff on Labour's tax plans
-Professor Scully on elections in Wales