ANYTHING YOU MISSED LAST WEEK SAM??

So 96% of the new National Service policy would actually be National Volunteering Once a Month (at a cost of £2.5bn)

An exodus of his own MPs that outstrips even '97. And a visit to the Titanic Quarter...

Sometimes the VT script lines really do write themselves.

Heading to the exit? One person can’t see the signs….

A(nother) film today by Tom Larkin

Couldn't be prouder to see my younger, taller spreadsheet apprentice Matt Grant achieve the giddy heights of a Jon Craig brandish.

The baton has been passed 📄

Day 2 of the Rishi Sunak campaign trail

❓Is the underdog taking enough risks?

📸 Tightly controlled photo-ops, artifice and awkwardness. Day 1 with Rishi Sunak

Film by Tom Larkin
Camera/editor Finn Lord-Jones

Rishi Sunak taking a brave approach to small talk at a brewery in Wales.

He asked workers if they're looking forward to 'all the football'. One quickly pointed out that Wales haven't qualified for the Euros 😬

The 6am train to chase Rishi Sunak across 4 nations in 2 days.

DIDNT HEAR THIS ON YOUR BLOODY PODCAST Sam Coates Sky

Sky's political correspondent Darren McCaffrey is removed from Rishi Sunak's campaign launch event.

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Sky News understands July 4 election

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Colin John Smith.

He weighed just 13 pounds when he died aged 7, infected during the contaminated blood scandal.

His loving parents want his name remembered so we started #PoliticsHub with his story

While Sophy Ridge has ground out a clinical win in the FPL Lobby League, we all know that the real romance and magic belongs to cup competitions.

Delighted to be taking home this highly coveted trophy 🏆

Cannot stress enough how under-prepared Sam Coates Sky is for a half marathon. He's already been hobbling around the office all week from the panic training.

This level of suffering for the cause surely deserves a few quid 💷

Unai Emery you absolutely magnificent bastard 💜

📳 Tory MP: 'What a shitshow'
📳 Tory MP: 'We're all going to get banned from the estate now...'
📳 Tory MP: 'Watch all the vexatious complaints roll in'

There’s a story today that I really want talk about.
The Birth Trauma Inquiry – by a cross party group of MPs – has called for a national plan to improve maternity care, after speaking to 1,300 women and finding “shockingly poor quality” in how we look after women giving birth.

This week's episode was a step by step guide on how to prepare a secret Tory leadership campaign:

Listen here ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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Labour lead at *30 points* in this week's YouGov poll for The Times

That's the biggest Labour lead since Truss

CON 18 (=)
LAB 48 (+4)
LIB DEM 9 (-1)
REF UK 13 (-2)
GRN 7 (-1)

Fieldwork 7 - 8 May