Keir Starmer slams 'botched' Brexit and responds to rejoining EU

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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said keeping his children out of the limelight is something which he owes them.

Taking a question about Thursday potentially being his final day in opposition before a forecast election win, Sir Keir said: “I have talked about the concern I have about my children. I don’t want to overly talk about my children because I don’t want to bring them into this – that’s the very thing I’ve been trying not to do.

“Look, it’s not easy if you’re 16 and 13-and-a-half to go through big changes in your life if that’s what happens, and so, you know, they’re understandably at an age where this is very impactful on them, which is why I’ve been so fiercely protective of them for many years now and will continue to try to be so.

“That’s just a very personal thing that I owe them.”

Asked about whether he had plans to “do something special tomorrow”, Sir Keir said: “I think tomorrow may be pretty busy, so I’ve not made promises I can’t keep to anyone, including my children.”

Scotland’s First Minister has urged “every single SNP voter” to turn out on Thursday in what he said will be an “incredibly close” contest throughout the country.

Addressing supporters at a pre-election rally in Leith on Wednesday evening, John Swinney said the Conservatives were going to be “heavily defeated” by the Labour Party in England, but that there were “narrow margins” between Labour and the SNP north of the border.

Ofcom will not investigate Channel 4 News after Reform UK claimed the broadcaster used an actor as a “plant” in an undercover investigation into his campaign.

The watchdog said it had received over 270 complaints about Channel 4 News’s programme titled Undercover Inside Reform’s campaign, which saw a canvasser filmed using a racial slur to describe Rishi Sunak.

Ofcom said after assessing the complaints against the due accuracy, due impartiality and offence rules under the Broadcasting Code, “we have concluded that they do not raise substantive issues warranting further investigation”.

A Channel 4 News spokesman said: “Ofcom’s decision underscores the integrity of Channel 4 News’s journalism and high editorial standards.”

Being in opposition has been “the least productive nine years of my life”, Sir Keir Starmer has said.

Asked if he was nervous ahead of polling day, Sir Keir told reporters on the flight to his final campaign stop: “I’m quite pleased to have this opportunity.

“I can’t tell you how frustrating opposition is, it’s been the least productive nine years of my life.

“Being in opposition, voting and losing for nine years, is not doing what I came into politics to do.

“I didn’t come into politics relatively late in life, when I did have other things I could have done, to be on the opposition benches. I’ve been on there far too long so I’m really pleased to have the opportunity.”

Sir Keir Starmer said he was pleased with Labour’s campaign and his party was “ready for what comes next”.

He told reporters on his flight from Scotland to his final campaign stop in Worcestershire: “I’m really pleased that we have run such a positive campaign. I’m really pleased the four-and-a-half years of work is being vindicated.

“Because this hasn’t been an easy gig.

“When I took over as leader of the Labour Party the optimists said it will take 10 years to fix this party and get it back. The pessimists said you are never going to be in government again.

“We had a three-part strategy, we stuck to it and here we are, the day before the election, in a reasonably good position going into the opening of polls at 7 o’clock tomorrow morning.

“So I’m pleased, I’m confident in the hard work that we have done and we are ready for what comes next if the country puts their trust and confidence in us.”

Sir Keir Starmer said he has drawn inspiration from sitting in the same seat as Gareth Southgate on his flights to and from Scotland.

He told reporters on the plane to his final campaign stop: “It’s fantastic to be sitting in his seat.

“I didn’t realise until we were on it earlier that it was the England team plane, so it’s fantastic to sit in it. I do draw inspiration.

“But just as every time – you may have noticed a football theme to the campaign – every time we have come out the tunnel onto the pitch, this is a boyhood dream.”

He added: “I hope this plane isn’t used for quite a while to bring them back.”

Rishi Sunak’s parents and his wife Akshata Murty joined him for the final stump speech of the election campaign.

The Prime Minister stood for a photo with his family after giving a speech at Romsey Rugby Club, north of Southampton where he grew up.

“This underdog will fight to the final whistle,” Mr Sunak said during his last speech on the trail.

The Prime Minister urged Tory activists to continue campaigning, claiming they had “urgent work to do” to “save the UK” from a Labour government.

Sir Keir Starmer has given his last speech of the election campaign at a community centre in Redditch.

Speaking to cheering activists for the final time before polls open, the Labour leader signed off saying: “Imagine a Britain moving forward together with a Labour government.

“That’s what we are fighting for, let’s continue that fight.

“If you want change, you have to vote for it.”

Rishi Sunak has warned Britain not to “surrender” to Labour.

He told activists in Hampshire: “I know you are tired. I know you have been working hard, but I have to ask you to give it one last push.

“We cannot surrender to Labour. We need to fight for every vote. We need to fight for our values, and most importantly, we need to fight for our vision of Britain.”

Rishi Sunak's party could be left with just 82 seats, a general election poll has projected.

The Techne survey put Labour on course for a 272-seat majority, with Sir Keir Starmer's Party winning 461 seats.

Sir Ed Davey drove off in a pink cadillac convertible with his deputy Daisy Cooper after his last election campaign stop.

The Lib Dem leader gave a stump speech at Hammond’s End Farm in Harpenden to the tune of ABBA’s Take A Chance On Me.

Confetti and pyrotechnics blasted out before Sir Ed and Ms Cooper sat in the back of the car and departed.

Sir Ed told a crowd of assembled supporters: “We have a special job to kick the Conservatives out of government and then to start repairing the terrible damage they’ve done to our country.”

Nigel Farage has entered his final rally of the election campaign on an Army vehicle to the tune of Without Me by Eminem.

The vehicle drove through the crowds at Clacton Pier in Essex before reversing, narrowly avoiding contact with a woman in a mobility scooter.

The Reform leader went on to start a chant: “We want our country back.”

Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed that Labour will delay Parliament’s summer recess if it wins the election.

The Labour leader said it was “obvious to me” that recess, which usually runs from late July to early September, would need to be pushed back.

“How much legislation will be through by the end of July I think is questionable because the timetable is very tight,” he said.

“Although it seems obvious to me that we’ll have to extend the timetable. We will be working very hard.”

Sir Keir Starmer has said he does not believe Britain will not rejoin the European Union’s single market or customs union in his lifetime.

Speaking in Wales earlier today, the Labour leader said: “No, I don’t think that that is going to happen. You know, I’ve been really clear about not rejoining the EU, the single market or the customs union or a return to freedom of movement.

“I’ve been equally clear that I do think we could get a better deal than the botched deal we got under Boris Johnson on the trading front, on research and development and on security. Now obviously that’s subject to negotiation.

“At the moment, my focus is on getting through to 10 o’clock tomorrow night and making sure that we have what I hope will be a mandate for change in this country.”

Labour is on course for landslide victory in Thursday's election with a 212-seat majority, according to YouGov's final MRP poll.

Sir Keir Starmer's party is set for 431 seats, beating the 419 won in 1997 and the highest number in its history.

It's also more than double the 202 Labour won in 2019, and It would give them the biggest majority for any single party since 1832.

Sir Keir Starmer said he was “delighted” to have received the backing of The Sun for the General Election.

Answering media questions after a stump speech in Glasgow, the Labour leader said: “I’m delighted to have the support and the backing of The Sun.

“I think that shows just how much this is a changed Labour Party, back in the service of working people.”

Nigel Farage has expressed “regret” at Reform UK “letting some bad people” stand as candidates at the General Election.

Speaking in Clacton, Mr Farage said: “I’ve been doing this job one month, one month today, June 3 I came back. As I understand it, I didn’t know it at the time, but quite a lot of the Reform candidates – about an eighth of them – were literally just ‘please would someone please come and stand for us’ so we’ve got some people we shouldn’t have.”

Asked if he could promise by 2029 he would not have similar issues with candidates, Mr Farage spoke of the record of the Brexit Party under his tenure in the European Parliament and claimed there was “never a single accusation of homophobia, of anything all the while the Brexit Party was running”.

He said: “It’s all gone wrong in the last few months because, frankly, Reform has not had the structure, the funding, the resources to field a sufficient number of candidates without letting some bad people in. I regret that, I didn’t quite realise what the extent of the problem was a month ago but I’ll sort it out.

“I sorted it out in Ukip, I had no problems with it in the Brexit Party and from Friday my first two big jobs are number one to professionalise the party and number two to democratise it.”

Asked if he would stay on as Reform UK leader if he loses in Clacton, Mr Farage said: “If I lose the seat in Clacton I shall go out for a few pints and think about it but of course I will stay.”

Nigel Farage has defended his decision to appear alongside boxer Derek Chisora at a campaign event in Clacton, Essex.

Asked about Chisora’s conviction for assaulting a woman in 2010 and whether the boxer is a good role model for young men, the Reform UK leader said: “You know what? You show me someone who’s lived a perfect life and never been in trouble.

“With these young kids here, he’s a fantastic role model.

“He’s got a huge following in the country and yeah, he is a good role model – imperfect as we all are.”

Nigel Farage has lamented young men being unable to “tell jokes that might offend the Germans” during the Euros.

Asked about his own appeal to young male voters and the influencer Andrew Tate, who Mr Farage has previously described as an “important voice” for young men, the Reform UK leader said: “Oh I think Andrew Tate’s built a huge following amongst these people, despite a lot of imperfections – serious imperfections.

“I think a lot of young men feel emasculated.

“I mean, look at the football. You know, they’re told go to Germany, please don’t drink more than two pints of beer – you what? Don’t chant at the football matches – you what? Oh, don’t tell jokes that might offend the Germans, I mean, come on.

“We are trying to stop young men being young men – that’s why Tate’s got the following he’s got so what I’m doing is maybe a part of a similar phenomenon.”

Quizzed about who is trying to “stop young men being young men”, he said: “Everybody, everybody, everybody. I mean, you know, actually, the Football Association giving out these messages – ‘don’t chant at a football match’. If I couldn’t drink beer and chant at a football match when I was 21 I wouldn’t go.”

Nigel Farage has refused to say how many seats Reform is aiming to win tomorrow but says by 2029 he will be challenging for Government.

If he loses, “he’ll go for a beer”. He adds there there is huge growth in young people backing him in their droves

Nigel Farage, who is a strong favourite for the Clacton seat in tomorrow’s General Election at 1/8, has been tipped to become the Prime Minister before 2030.

Farage has been given odds of 10/1 to continue gathering support and become Prime Minister before 1 January 2030, betting firm Star Sports says.

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a surprise appearance at a Rishi Sunak rally last night.

It is understood that Mr Sunak texted Mr Johnson at the end of last week - their second message in two years - asking for his help.

Mr Johnson returned from holiday on Sunday, and agreed to an appearance on Tuesday.

They spoke for five minutes before Mr Johnson's speech, their first face to face talks in over 2 years.

Rishi Sunak has denied that the Tories have left centrist voters behind.

Asked if he had veered too far to the right with the possibility of votes being taken by the Liberal Democrats, the Prime Minister said “no”.

He added: “I think that our plan is one that is squarely in what the mainstream majority of the British public want. Having your taxes cut, your pension protected, and our borders secure I just think are what common sense majority of the British people want.”

Mr Sunak also told reporters he is fully responsible for Thursday’s result as “the leader of the party”.

Sir Keir Starmer has arrived in Scotland, after flying from Wales on the same jet that took England to the Euros in Germany.

The Labour leader sat in the same seat as England boss Gareth Southgate for the journey, part of a whirlwind tour of mainland Britain on the final day of the General Election campaign.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has arrived at a boxing club in Clacton with boxer Derek Chisora.

The pair entered as children did boxing drills, with Chisora sporting a pair of Reform boxing gloves, a gown emblazoned with ‘Nigel’s security’ and a Union flag bandana.

Rishi Sunak said he had a “very good chat” with Boris Johnson as the ex-prime minister made a surprise appearance at a Tory rally.

The current and former occupant of Downing Street were not seen together during Tuesday night’s event.

Asked whether he had met his predecessor, the Prime Minister told reporters in Hampshire: “Of course. I had a very good chat with him.

“What you saw is all Conservatives … united in warning the country about the dangers of what Keir Starmer would mean, undoing all the progress that we’ve made.

“And as Boris rightly pointed out, just at the moment where we have gone through Covid, the impact of the war in Ukraine and we’re now cutting people’s taxes and can look forward to a better future, we would throw all that away if Keir Starmer was in power.”

Rishi Sunak has admitted that the Tories have not made as much progress as he would have liked.

Speaking to reporters, the Prime Minister said: “I appreciate people have frustrations with our party, of course I do.

“We haven’t got everything perfectly right, haven’t made as much progress in every area as we would have liked, but tomorrow’s vote is not a by-election on the past, it is a vote about the future.”

Rishi Sunak declined to say whether he thought Suella Braverman’s intervention was helpful.

Asked by journalists on the campaign trail whether he thought she should have waited until after the election, the Prime Minister said: “There’s lots of people in this campaign, lots of commentary. I’m focused on just making sure as many people as possible know about the choice in front of them tomorrow.”

Ms Braverman, former Home Secretary, urged the Conservative Party to “read the writing on the wall” and “prepare for the reality and frustration of opposition”.

The Tories have moved ahead of Reform UK in new polling the day before the General Election.

The survey by Whitestone Insight for the Daily Express puts Rishi Sunak's party up three points from last week on 21%.

Meanwhile, Nigel Farage's Reform has dropped three points to 18% as 2019 Conservative voters return to the party.

The poll gives Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Party a 17-point lead on 38%.

The Sun newspaper has backed Labour in the general election.

"It is time for Labour", the publication wrote on its website this afternoon.

It called the Tories "exhausted", adding: "They need a period in Opposition to unite around a common set of principles which can finally bring to an end all the years of internal warfare."

Rishi Sunak has confided to members of his inner circle that he is fearful of losing his Yorkshire constituency at the general election, reports have suggested.

The prime minister, who would be the first sitting leader of the country to lose his seat, told confidants ahead of a Conservative rally on Tuesday that he thinks the vote in Richmond and Northallerton is too close to call.

In 2019, he won the seat with a majority of more than 27,000 and 63% of the vote.

Speaking to the Guardian, a source said: “He is genuinely fearful of a defeat in Richmond: the risk that it could be tight has hit him hard. He’s rattled – he can’t quite believe it’s coming so close.”

Another source added: “He’s taken so much friendly fire from his own side I’m amazed he’s had the strength to keep going.”

Journalists pressed Rishi Sunak on his favourite meal, after the PM simply answered "sandwiches" when asked this morning.

Drilled for specifics, Mr Sunak revealed his favourite meal would be a club sandwich with chips, though the Pret A Manger cheese and ham sandwich is probably his most frequently purchased.

Asked to remind one forgetful journalist about the ingredients of a club sandwich, the PM correctly reeled off the ingredients: “Chicken, bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise."

He joked: “That is the question on everyone’s minds!”

Rishi Sunak has insisted he is not complacent about holding his North Yorkshire constituency, as he campaigns hundreds of miles away in Hampshire.

Speaking to reporters at a primary school in Caroline Nokes’ constituency, the Prime Minister said he hopes to have the opportunity to continue representing voters in Northallerton after the election.

Reacting to Mel Stride’s comments this morning that appeared to resign the Tories to defeat, Mr Sunak said it “definitely isn’t right” that only he believes the election is not a foregone conclusion.

He repeated his claim that just 130,000 votes are the difference between a Labour super majority and an effective Tory opposition holding them to account, and said he will take that message out to the country until the last minute of the campaign.

Mr Sunak insisted that “millions and millions” of voters have not yet made up their minds, and asked them to separate their frustrations with him and the Tories over the past few years and focus on the threat Labour poses to tax and their finances.

Speaking about the past five years of Tory rule, Mr Sunak said: “You can’t change the past. What has been has been. But what you can change is what happens in the future."

Rishi Sunak has so far held events in 54 different constituencies since the first full day of the election campaign on May 23, according to data compiled by the PA news agency.

Some 45 of these 54 seats are Conservative defences and include nine where Mr Sunak's party has enormous notional majorities of more than 20,000, such as Hinckley & Bosworth in Leicestershire (22,851), Thirsk & Malton in North Yorkshire (23,337) and Honiton & Sidmouth in Devon (26,229).

In 29 of the 45 seats, the Tories are defending majorities of over 10,000 and include places like Macclesfield in Cheshire, which has been won by the Conservatives at every general election since 1918; Banbury in Oxfordshire, won by the Tories at every election since 1922; and Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire, won by the Conservatives at every election since 1950.

By the end of Wednesday, Sir Keir Starmer is due to have visited 57 different seats during the campaign, including 43 being defended by the Conservatives; while Sir Ed Davey will have clocked up 49 different constituencies, of which 41 are Tory defences.

Tory candidate Ben Everitt, who is seeking re-election in Milton Keynes North, branded Labour "desperate" as he accused the party of being behind the vandalism of a number of his election signs.

Pictures show blue boards daubed with the words "vote Labour".

Mr Everitt said: "This is not what a party that is winning the argument locally does. It's desperate.

"Labour's plan for 63,000 extra houses here would vandalise our countryside. I guess they're just getting cracking early."

No criminal offences were committed by Reform UK activists campaigning for Nigel Farage who were filmed by an undercover journalist for Channel 4, Essex Police said.

The force said in a statement: "Having assessed the comments made during a Channel 4 news programme, and all other information available to us, we have concluded that no criminal offences have taken place."

The footage showed canvasser Andrew Parker using a racial slur about Rishi Sunak and suggesting migrants arriving in the UK on small boats should be used as "target practice".

Another activist described the Pride flag as "degenerate" and suggested members of the LGBT community are paedophiles.

Mr Farage claimed he was the victim of a stitch-up because Mr Parker is an actor, although he insisted he was there as a Reform activist and Channel 4 said he was "not known" to the broadcaster before being "filmed covertly via the undercover operation".

A minister has rejected the suggestion that the election is "over" for the Conservatives after a Cabinet member all but conceded defeat this morning.

However, Andrew Griffith echoed Mel Stride's warning that if the polls are correct, Labour will win a majority "unprecedented in modern history".

Asked whether he agreed with Suella Braverman that it was over for the Tories, the science minister told BBC Radio 4's World at One: "No, not at all."

He added: "Nobody should be taking the British people for granted. I think what Mel was talking about was the very real jeopardy of a Labour government."

Reacting to Boris Johnson's appearance at a Tory rally last night, Reform leader Nigel Farage told TalkTV: “He is the man with the big majority. He is the man that opened the door to mass migration. He is the guy that brought in loopy net zero policies.

“He is the man that couldn’t tell the truth to the House of Commons. He won’t have done them any good at all.”

Nigel Farage has urged people to vote for "real change" at tomorrow's General Election.

In a video posted on X, the Reform leader said: “We are almost there. Do you want real change? Because we’re the only party saying what the silent majority thinks.

“We’re prepared to tackle immigration. We’re prepared to try to lift those on low pay out of the tax system.

“We're bold. We've got vision for the future. Help us take this first really big step. Vote with your heart. Vote Reform UK on the 4th.”

Rishi Sunak has insisted a Labour victory at the ballot box tomorrow is "not a foregone conclusion" despite various polls pointing to Tory wipeout.

Speaking on ITV's This Morning programme, the Prime Minister said despite a “very long day yesterday” on the campaign trail he is "feeling good".

Sir Keir Starmer accused the Tories of attempted "voter suppression" over Mel Stride's warning this week that could win "the largest majority that any party has ever achieved.”

Stride has previously voiced concern that Labour's victory could be so big that there would be no effective opposition to keep them in check.

Asked to respond to Stride's comments in south Wales, Sir Keir told broadcasters in south Wales, “I think the Tories have run a very negative campaign and they’re failing to answer the question of what positive change they bring for the country.”

When pressed further, Sir Keir said: “It’s more of the same, it’s really voter suppression, it’s trying to get people to stay at home rather than to go out and vote," as per The Telegraph.

"I say if you want change, you have to vote for it. I want people to be part of the change.”

The Labour leader stressed that he is “not taking anything for granted”.

Pat McFadden talked down the proespect of a Labour "supermajority" in parliament, insisting the idea is "ridiculous".

Speaking to GB News, he dismissed concerns about the impact of a thumping Labour win on Thursday, saying, “the country needs a government with a clear mandate”.

He also looked to reassure voters that the party would not lean left after gaining power.

“It’s pretty clear how far we’ve come from five years ago and people like me are not going to change our stripes depending on the size of the result tomorrow," he told the channel.

“All this stuff about supermajority – I mean what is that? Did anyone say that the Conservatives didn’t have a right to rule when they won the election in 2019 – they got a majority, how many is a supermajority?

“It’s a ridiculous figure and I think it’s disrespectful to the electorate to somehow be telling them what to do and trying to calibrate the exact result.”

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Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves have their eyes on the £2.5trillion currently sitting in pension funds and want to mandate big companies like Aviva, Legal & General and Phoenix where to invest it, Daily Express personal finance editor Harvey Jones writes.

"Investment experts warn this could make savers thousands of pounds poorer and put retirements at risk.

"The vast majority of our pension funds are invested in foreign equities and low-risk assets like government bonds, rather than helping high-growth UK economies.

Keir Starmer said Labour will fight until the last minute for every vote as he concluded his speech.

As polling day looms, Sir Keir told supporters, “We have got to get out there, every minute, every hour of today, and tomorrow all the way through to 10 o’clock, fight for every single vote.

“This is an incredible opportunity for change across the whole of the United Kingdom and a double opportunity to deliver here in Wales for every single person and household," he added.

“Let’s go out, let’s do it, with that smile, that positivity, our argument, before the country, hoping for that victory tomorrow.”

Keir Stamer sought to rouse apathetic voters as he insisted change requires voters to make their voices heard.

“There are a lot of undecided voters still. Lots of constituencies that will come down to a few hundred votes that make the difference," he said.

“And people need convincing about the change that we need. They need convincing that change is possible and that they can vote for change.”

Sir Keir warned that if people don't play their part “we could end up with more of the same on Friday morning”.

“Change only happens if you vote for it,” he added.

A win for the Conservatives in the General Election on Thursday would bring "five more years of the same", Starmer told attendees at the campaign stop.

“If they are returned on Friday for five more years of the Tories we won’t get anything different. It’ll be the same," The Labour leader sai.

“And they have evidenced it in the campaign because Rishi Sunak started by campaigning with David Cameron, then he borrowed Liz Truss’s programme and put it in his manifesto of unfunded tax cuts and last night they wheeled out Boris Johnson.

“When I say chaos, division and failure, they have just exhibited it in this campaign. Nothing is going to change. You have just seen it in the last six weeks, five more years of the same,” he added.

Voters have the opportunity tomorrow to “turn the page” on 14 years of “chaos” under the Tories, Starmer told activists in south Wales.

Labour is focused on helping to “save steel here in Wales”, Keir Starmer told supporters at his first campaign event of the day.

Adressing the prospect of Labour governments in both London and in Cardiff, Sir Keir said: “Two governments working together to deliver for Wales, that is an incredible opportunity across Wales that we must take.”

Mel Stride has said he will fight "tooth and nail" until 10pm on polling day to warn about "what is coming down the track with the Labour government".

The Work and Pensions Secretary said he and his Conservative colleagues have been working to "land the message" about what they claim will be higher taxes and raided pension pots.

Asked why he has been such a prominent figure in the Tory campaign while others, such as party chairman Richard Holden, have been "basically unseen", he told ITV's Good Morning Britain: "I care deeply about my country. I'm very concerned about what's going to happen tomorrow in the General Election.

"I have personally, as many of my colleagues have, fought tooth and nail over this six-week period to land our message about what is coming down the track with the Labour government, and I will do that right the way through to when the polls close at 10 o'clock tomorrow."

Mel Stride warned voters would "regret" an "untrammelled Labour Party" in power.

The Work and Pensions Secretary said that if about 130,000 people in about 100 seats who might be considering voting Reform or Liberal Democrat instead gave their vote to the Tories, it would help to give parliament a more robust opposition.

"I'm really worried about an untrammelled Labour Party in power and that really needs to be checked, and people will regret it if we don't have that, I think," Mr Stride told LBC.

Labour has slipped behind the SNP just before the General Election, a new poll suggests.

A survey by Savanta for The Scotsman suggests 31% of Scots could vote Labour tomorrow, three points down on the last poll, while support for the SNP is unchanged at 34%.

The poll, carried out between June 28 and July 2, suggests the Conservatives are on 15%, up one point, while the Liberal Democrats are at 9%, up two points on the last poll earlier in June.

The survey of 1,083 Scottish adults found 6% said they would back Reform UK, no change since the last poll, while the Greens were up one point at 3%, and 2% said they would vote for other parties.

Former home secretary Suella Braverman has urged the Conservative Party to "read the writing on the wall" and "prepare for the reality and frustration of opposition".

Writing in The Telegraph, Ms Braverman said victory should no longer be the goal for the Tories.

She said: "Thursday's vote is now all about forming a strong enough opposition.

"One needs to read the writing on the wall: it's over, and we need to prepare for the reality and frustration of opposition."

Mel Stride has said Labour is heading for an "extraordinary landslide on a scale that has probably never, ever been seen in this country before".

The Work and Pensions Secretary told GB News that the election would be about how Parliament is going to operate and whether the UK has an effective opposition.

"If you look at the polls, it is pretty clear that Labour at this stage are heading for an extraordinary landslide on a scale that has probably never, ever been seen in this country before," he said.

There is one more sleep until the big day. Expect campaigners across the four nations to make their final pitches to voters before polls open at 7am on Thursday.

After a late-night rally in Chelsea and support from his predecessor Boris Johnson, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will end his campaign trail in the South East.

In a marathon final leg of his tour, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will speak to voters in England, Scotland and Wales.

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey will hit the road again to round off his stunt-packed campaign with a tour of southern England.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage will take another trip to the Essex seaside constituency which he is contesting with an event on Clacton Pier.

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