Meanwhile, the Labour Leader keir starmer has been out meeting voters in the West Midlands where he told voters that stabilising the economy would be a number one priority. Heres our Political Correspondent helen catt. The Labour Leader arriving at a Football Club in the West Midlands, here to put the boot into the tories economic record and to explain what a Labour Government would do. Stability is change. Its strange to say that in 2024 but a stable economy has to be the first step of an incoming Labour Government, and that is what we will make an absolute priority if we are privileged enough to come in to serve. It comes as a leading think tank, the ifs, urged both labour and the tories to be open about the tough choices they will face over the countrys finances if elected. For rishi sunak it was a low key visit, a cuppa with veterans in the north of england. He answered some gentle concerns about his drenching in downing street. It was wet. The amount of people whove given me an um
to get onboard, there are people that say this doesn t seem right to us, we ll get onboard too. could have opposite effect prosecutors think. emily: how do you see this playing out? we had debates and certain candidates polls surged, nikki haley, mike pence, desantis rose up, donald trump went down a bit, but enjoying huge lead. how do you see this duck tailing with impact of wall street journal editorial board predicted, what do you think is going to happen? this is the best campaigning tool, the indictments because more timing looks suspicious, more it fires up voters. democrats know what they are doing, they are both wounding him, but guaranteeing his
might say the timing is really inconvenient for donald trump, he should be out there campaigning to get the primary nominee vote from big states including california there. but there is some evidence amongst republican voters and people who would otherwise support donald trump that his legal troubles seem to do quite well, certainly as far as fundraising, they had a record number of the nation s record amount of donations on the back of his booking into the fulton county jail the other day. so obviously on the one hand, his laundry will be washed in public and the federal case in washington, dc. on the other hand, it might actually be something that works as a campaigning tool for him. that s quite interesting, isn t it? because obviously he ll be spending quite a bit of time and money, as well, defending himself in these cases. but none of that seems to be a hindrance to his campaign. that
trading arrangements, and while the selection was for local councils it was seen as people s first chance to send a message about the political crisis. while the dup vote held up crisis. while the dup vote held up the unionist vote of all has splintered over recent years, they paid a price. they paid a price. there is no caettin they paid a price. there is no getting away they paid a price. there is no getting away from they paid a price. there is no getting away from the - they paid a price. there is no getting away from the fact i getting away from the fact unionists and needs to take a long, hard look at how do we manage elections, the splintering of the unionist movement, the turnout the differential and turn up between areas, these are issues we do need to address and i m happy to sit down with my fellow unionists and examine these issues. fellow unionists and examine these issues. the dup s refusal to re-enter these issues. the dup s refusal to re-enter power these issu
up, the unionist vote overall has splintered in recent years and they ve paid a price. there s no getting away from the fact that unionism needs to take a long, hard look at how we manage elections. the splintering of the unionist vote, the turnout, the differential, in turnout between areas. these are issues that we do need to address, and i m happy to sit down with my fellow unionists and examine these issues. the dup s refusal to re enter power sharing at stormont was used by sinn fein as a campaigning tool and appears to have worked. the sense that sinn fein s leader here, michelle 0 neill, was prevented from becoming first minister by the dup s boycott, has seen sinn fein picking up key votes. the centre ground alliance party, who are neither unionist nor nationalist, also made some gains and have remained the third largest party in local councils. sinn fein ultimately wants to leave the uk and create a united ireland, but they don t put this front and centre.