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Below is the news from the past two days. For more please visit: Politics and the Economy: June 2017.


 * June 2nd: The Conservative candidate for South Thanet, Craig Mackinlay, along with two of his aides, have been charged with electoral fraud in the 2015 election, just 6 days before he is to contest his seat in the 2017 election.
 * June 2nd: Theresa May has announced the Conservatives are going to be "working for" her promise to cut immigration to be fulfilled by 2022 (the end of the next parliament), however, on Question Time, David Davis, her Brexit secretary, contradicted her by saying "we [the Conservatives] didn't put a date" on how long it would take to cut immigration and that they "can't promise [it] within five years".
 * June 2nd: The Daily Telegraph has revealed that Labour's campaign is "being boosted by fake social media accounts that pump out positive messages about Jeremy Corbyn thousands of times per day".
 * June 1st: Donald Trump has announced that the United States will withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate agreement, after a plea from the UN Secretary General not to. This has drawn international condemnation.
 * June 1st: Jeremy Corbyn has ruled out a coalition in the event that Labour is the largest party but without a marjority.