2024 elections: Leaders intensify attacks as frantic final days of campaigning begin | Politics News

Sir Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak are ready to begin the final frantic days of campaigning as polling day fast approaches.

Both men will today reiterate their core messages as they try to motivate their supporters to head to the polling stations on Thursday.

O Work leader will convince the nation that if they want change, they “will have to vote for it” – while the Conservative the leader will warn that there are “four days to save Britain from a Labor government”.

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Mr Sunak suggested that Labor is on track for a “supermajority”, with the opposition managing to maintain a lead of around 20 points in opinion polls, according to the Sky News Poll Tracker – something Mr Keir He will do everything he can to make sure it doesn’t change.

The Liberal Democrats are expected to continue their push to replace the Conservatives in seats that have traditionally been considered their heartland – while the SNP will try to convince the Scots to support them, as polls show Labor could once again become the largest Scottish parliamentary contingent.

Sunak will campaign in the Midlands today, where he will warn against giving “a blank check to Keir Starmer and the Labor Party”.

Speaking at a rally later, the Prime Minister will say of Labor: “If they get the kind of majority, the supermajority that the polls suggest, they will start to entrench themselves in power.

“They will rewrite the rules to make it easier for them to stay in office and harder for someone to replace them. So don’t give your voice to the Labor Party on Thursday.”

Apparently in an attempt to limit the scale of the defeat, rather than emerging victorious, the Conservative leader will say that “an unchecked Labor government would be a disaster from which it would take decades to recover”.

“We conservatives will stand up for you and make sure your voice is heard and your values ​​are represented.”

The Conservative Party also claims today that Labour’s immigration plans will result in a “deluge” of asylum seekers, leading to tax rises of £635 per family each year – something a Labor spokesman branded a “ridiculous lie from an increasingly desperate conservative party.” “.

The opposition claimed that the Conservatives “have completely lost control of the asylum system or border security” and if they are re-elected “the chaos will continue and the costs will rise even further”.

Labor victory ‘not inevitable’ – Starmer

Labor will also promise to ensure petty theft is punished by scrapping a rule that allows people who steal goods worth less than £200 to escape punishment, it is understood.

More broadly, the party will continue to advocate for change, with national campaign coordinator Pat McFadden saying: “If people don’t want to wake up on July 5th to another five years of economic chaos, wake up knowing that everything the future offers are the same as in the recent Conservative past, so they have to vote Labor and vote for change on Thursday.

Sir Keir Starmer also emphasized this message in an interview with The Guardian, saying: “People talk about the inevitable outcome. It’s not inevitable. I think there is a desire for change. But, you know, what we always say, if you want change, you have to vote for it.”

He also told the newspaper that “hope has been knocked out of many people” because of the Conservatives’ failure to deliver on the pledge, adding: “There is an almost universal view that almost everything is broken and that we are going backwards as a country. That’s very demoralizing.

“They also had to witness Westminster’s policy of self-entitlement and self-improvement… I’m not surprised that people feel dissatisfied with the policy. But we have to restore it.”

The Labor leader gave the interview before exit polls showed the far-right in the lead after the first round of French parliamentary electionsbut he nevertheless warned against “the rise of populism and nationalism”.

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Sir Keir expressed concern about the rise in support for the populist right across Europe and for Reform in the UK.

“You have to understand why this is happening,” he said. “It’s based on this discontent, this feeling that politics can’t be a force for good and that politicians can’t be trusted.”

He argued that progressive parties and governments could restore faith, however, saying, “It goes back to a credible hope, a realizable hope, bringing about change that will be material to people’s lives.”

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Prime Minister John Swinney will also be campaigning today, reiterating his core message that Scots need an “alternative” to the Labor Party in Westminster to “represent the values ​​of Scotland”.

O SNP leader said in a statement that general elections in England it is a “foregone conclusion”, with a Labor victory on the cards, and claimed that Sir Keir Starmer would “continue with the same broken politics and right-wing policies as the Tories”.

He argues that the result in Scotland is on a “knife’s edge” – despite polls showing Labor in the lead – and that Sir Keir “simply represents more of the same broken Brexit Britain that does not reflect Scotland’s values”.

“The SNP is offering an alternative – a vision of hope with an end to austerity, reintegration into the EU, the eradication of child poverty and a made-in-Scotland future, for a Scotland where Scotland’s interests are always put first ,” Swinney said.

“The only way to achieve this and put an end to the failure of Brexit, which has caused so much damage to Scotland, is to vote SNP on Thursday.

“Only the SNP offers Scotland hope of a better future in the EU – but we must vote for it.”

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Sir Ed Davey and the Liberal Democrats will continue their attempt to take seats away from the Tories – and are promoting a pledge they launched yesterday to reverse “ruthless Tory cuts” to bereavement payments.

In the latter case, a bereaved family where a spouse or partner has died receives a lump sum of up to £3,500, followed by a monthly payment of up to £350 for 18 months.

The party is calling for this period to be extended and pledges to inject an additional £440 million a year into the system by 2028-29 to fund it.

‘Labour may take Wales for granted’

Cymru Chess will present their case to voters in Wales, arguing that the Welsh people will be left “voiceless” if they do not have a “strong group” of MPs at Westminster.

Party leader Rhun ap Iorwerth said Wales “simply doesn’t feature” in Conservative and Labor election plans, while his party would push for a “fair funding deal for Wales”.

“When people vote on Thursday, they expect their MP to speak for them and their community, and not follow the Westminster whip at any cost,” a statement said.

“We know the Tories are finished and the contempt they show for Wales is nothing new – but with Labor set to enter Downing Street on Friday, there is a real danger that they will simply take Wales for granted. “

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He added: “For a member of parliament who will always give Wales a voice at Westminster, who will always stand up for justice and stand up against further cuts that have already devastated our public services, vote for Plaid Cymru on July 4.”

UK Reform will also be campaigning as the party tries to stabilize its campaign following allegations of racism.

Yesterday, one of the party’s candidates disowned them and supported the Conservatives, saying he was “increasingly disillusioned” with the party’s behavior and accused the leader Nigel Farage not to take it seriously.

It followed controversy over a reformist colporteur who was caught making a racial slur at the prime minister in an undercover investigation.

The UK reform also had to abandon several electoral candidates because of the racist remarks they made.