Chancellor Rishi Sunak spoke on the second day of the Conservative party conference about his vision for the future, which included 2,000 AI scholarships for disadvantaged pupils and a ￡500million 'plan for jobs' extension. But his speech has sparked a strange conversation on Twitter. Following the speech, Atlantic journalist Anne Applebaum said: "Genuinely do not understand why no UK political party has campaigned hard against the vast money laundering and tax avoidance operations run out of the City of London, not to mention the anonymous property deals that have distorted the UK property market." Labour MP John McDonnel responded by pointing to the Tax Transparency and Enforcement programme he published in 2017 and further developed in 2019 under Labour’s Fair Tax Programme after which Jeremy Corbyn chimed in with: "John challenged the power and privelege of The City of London from the day he entered Parliament, and still does!"

       Meanwhile, the latest polling has found support for the Conservatives in the northern Red Wall is lower than it was during Theresa May's government in 2017.

       It is the same YouGov’s MRP model that correctly predicted the shape of the 2017 and 2019 general election results.

       The modelling suggests the Conservatives would lose 18 Red Wall seats to Labour - and 14 more seats are too close to call. A loss of 18 seats would half the Tory majority from 80 to 44.

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