Inside Politics: Party leaders promise veterans the earth, as Farage under pressure to pull candidates

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Well I say! Is nothing sacred? The creators behind the third season of The Crown have been accused of “quite remarkable lapses into vulgarity” for suggesting the Queen may have had an affair with her horse racing manager. Her Majesty’s former press secretary said it was “very distasteful”. Our gutter politics have witnessed so many “remarkable lapses into vulgarity” in recent years it’s difficult to know what qualifies as distasteful any more. We have the big two parties accusing each other of lying to the public, Nigel Farage considering a squalid deal to pull hundreds of his own candidates, and the SNP drawing up a tawdry “wish list” of demands in the event of a hung parliament. There’s no chance of a little decorum over the next four weeks, is there? I’m Adam Forrest, and welcome to The Independent’s Inside Politics newsletter.

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