Lecturers at Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen have gone on strike over redundancies.

Rishi Sunak insists he is still fighting to win.Privately, many Conservative candidates are fairly open about their belief that victory is implausible and that their party should instead hope to limit the scale of a Labour victory.

However, it is only in this last week senior Tories have publicly raised this prospect in an apparent change of strategy.In an interview with BBC economics editor Faisal Islam, Mr Hunt was asked if talk of a Labour "supermajority" on 4 July was an implicit acknowledgement that the Tory campaign had gone badly wrong."I think it's very important if Labour win, that they have an effective opposition in Parliament," he said.

In his own constituency, Mr Hunt has admitted he faces a "knife-edge" battle with the Liberal Democrats to win the new seat of Godalming and Ash in Surrey.In the 2019 election for his old seat of South West Surrey, Mr Hunt had a majority of 8,817.

“I do face a fight here, for sure," he told the BBC.

"And what I say to people on the doorstep is if you vote for Reform.... Reform aren’t going to win but the Lib Dems will win.Meanwhile, the yield on a 10 year bond surged on Wednesday to its highest since October 2008, to reach 4.784%.

The government generally spends more than it raises in tax. To fill this gap it borrows money, but that has to be paid back - with interest.One of the ways it can borrow money is by selling financial products called bonds.

A bond is a promise to pay money in the future. Most require the borrower to make regular interest payments.UK government bonds - known as "gilts" - are normally considered very safe, with little risk the money will not be repaid.