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Nigel Farage, the leader of the Brexit party, climbed down from his resolution to field 600 candidates in the general election, promising not to contest the 317 seats won by the Conservatives in 2017. The Conservatives, Labour and the Liberal Democrats said they would spend large sums of taxpayers’ money on things that might please voters (such as the NHS or, from the Lib Dems, a ‘skills wallet’ of £10,000 for every adult). The Conservatives claimed that Labour’s promises would cost £1,200 billion, which Labour denied. A review commissioned by the government into the HS2 railway said it should be built, despite the cost. Asked by the BBC if she could name an occasion on which Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, had supported the use of British forces overseas, Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, replied: ‘No, not off the top of my head.’ Hillary Clinton, the American politician, said on the Today programme how ‘inexplicable and shameful’ it was that the British government had not published a report on alleged Russian interference in British politics. David Gauke, a former Tory cabinet minister, urged people not to vote for the Conservatives. Ian Austin, a Labour MP from 2005 until this year, said that Mr Corbyn was ‘completely unfit to lead our country’, so Labour voters ‘should be voting for Boris Johnson’. Frank Dobson, a Labour MP from 1979 to 2015, died aged 79. Keith Vaz, for 32 years the Labour MP for Leicester East, decided not to stand again.
Hundreds of houses were flooded in Yorkshire, especially along the river Don. Residents of Fishlake, near Doncaster, complained that the Environment Agency had told them there was no need to prepare sandbags as they would not be flooded; but once they were flooded, no help was forthcoming.
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