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Portrait of the Week: Farage returns, Abbott reselected and Trump guilty 

issue 08 June 2024

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Nigel Farage took over leadership of the Reform party from Richard Tice and is standing for parliament in Clacton. This came as news on Monday to Tice, and to Reform’s candidate for Clacton, Tony Mack. Outside the Wetherspoons pub where he launched his campaign, Farage had a McDonald’s banana milkshake thrown over him. Farage proposed net-zero immigration. The Conservatives then said they would ask the independent Migration Advisory Committee for a recommended level for an annual cap on visas, and put that to a parliamentary vote. Invasive Asian hornets, which can eat 50 bees a day, were found to have survived a British winter and might stay permanently.

Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, in a debate on television with the Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, said every family would face tax rises of £2,000 under Labour.

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