07:39⇢Chancellor's Thin Relief Budget
Coverage divides between Budget day at home and deadlock in Israel. The Budget is previewed as limited cost-of-living help with scrapped gas standing charges (Independent) and expanded handouts (Daily Mail), though the Chancellor is expected to admit limits (Sun). On Israel, exit polls point to no majority, with Netanyahu tied or just behind Eisenkot (BBC, Economist, Telegraph).
BBC
More than half of Israeli votes counted as Netanyahu and Eisenkot both set to fall short of majority
Israeli elections can be decided by just a handful of seats and exit polls have been wrong in the past - we are unlikely to know who will be prime minister for weeks or longer.
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Far-right senator and his family boarded private plane to Ecuador after crossing border to Argentina, Argentina’s government confirms
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The Economist
Israel’s voters deny Binyamin Netanyahu a majority
His opponents will, nonetheless, probably struggle to form a government
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