UK general election live: Starmer will try to set up ‘permanent Labour government’ if he wins, James Cleverly claims

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Keir Starmer is campaigning in Hertfordshire. Later he will be in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.

10.30am: Rishi Sunak has a campaign visit in Staffordshire, where he will take part in a Q&A. In the afternoon he will be in the West Midlands, and in the evening in the East Midlands.

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8.47am), Labour’s message this morning is that its supporters cannot take victory for granted. Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow Cabinet Office minister, was giving interviews this morning and this is what he told Sky News:

There’s an election on Thursday and if people want to bring an end to the chaos, to the scandals from the party in No 10 to the insider gambling scandals, if people have had enough of being stuck on an NHS waiting list, if people who’ve had enough of having their family finances hammered and pay more on their mortgage, they’ve got to come out and vote Labour.

Labour has been making this point on its social media advertising.

And on the Labour battlebus this morning, Steve Reed, the shadow environment secretary, was handing out “Don’t wake up to five more years of the Tories” pillows to reporters.

Keir Starmer is campaigning in Hertfordshire. Later he will be in Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.

10.30am: Rishi Sunak has a campaign visit in Staffordshire, where he will take part in a Q&A. In the afternoon he will be in the West Midlands, and in the evening in the East Midlands.

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Source: theguardian.com

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