Party leaders are reinforcing their core messages to voters, as they prepare to enter the last full day of general election campaigning. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told a Conservative Party rally he would “fight for every vote”, saying that the result of Thursday’s poll was not a “foregone conclusion”.
He appeared alongside Boris Johnson – the former prime minister’s first appearance on the campaign trail – to repeat warnings of a Labour “supermajority”. Sir Keir Starmer said a big majority for Labour would be “better for the country”, as it would give him a mandate to “seriously change” it.
But he also sought to play down expectations for how quickly some things might change if Labour wins power, as all the polls predict. The Conservatives, who began the campaign with a big polling deficit, have been warning since mid-June that a landslide Labour win could grant the party a “supermajority”. It was a message Mr Sunak repeated at a party rally in London on Tuesday evening, adding that a vote for the Tories was a “vote for lower taxes”.
But the event was notable for Mr Johnson’s late intervention in the campaign. When Rishi asked me to come and help of course I couldn’t say no,” he told party supporters. He warned a “gigantic Labour majority pregnant with horrors” would see the party introduce “ever higher taxes” and “more wokery” in schools.
He also urged Tory voters not to vote for Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, adding this would “usher in” a Labour government. He also criticised Mr Farage for his claim that the West provoked Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, urging activists: “don’t let the Putinistas deliver the Corbynistas.
Source: BBC
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