Deputy Editor's View: It's finally heating up as we head to the polls

The deputy editor's Friday Night Takeaway from 28 June

Jenna Brown
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'June is bustin' out all over' as summer has, for now at least, arrived.

The sunny weather we have all been craving finally showed up this week and, in true British fashion, I was complaining it was too hot within hours. A gentle breeze is keeping me happy today though, as we ease into the weekend - the last weekend before Wimbledon starts (it is, therefore, bound to rain in the coming fortnight) and the general election actually happens. Campaigning has been relentless since Rishi Sunak got soaked outside Number 10 in late May (more evidence of changeable weather) when he called the snap poll. Sunak and Keir Starmer have butted heads on many issues but ar...

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