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From London, I'm Jon Weeks, and this is The Standard.

Coming up on today's show, our senior feature writer Katie Strick talks us through the juiciest revelations from Tom Bower's new book, House of Beckham.

But first, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has faced a grilling over his tax plans on LBC.

During the session this morning, he failed to rule out any tax rises over the next five years, if he does become Prime Minister.

He was also challenged on his plans to resolve the Israel-Gaza conflict, VAT on private school fees and Brexit.

Meanwhile, elsewhere, Boris Johnson has re-emerged, this time with a social media video endorsing the Tory candidate, Alice Hopkin, while urging the electorate to avoid handing Labour the majority to, as he said, take the country backwards with higher taxes and more wokery.

So does this signal a potential return for the former PM?

And has Keir Starmer's LBC appearance given him