Labour and Tories ramp up attacks in final week of General Election campaign

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As polling day fast approaches, each party has ramped up its General Election campaigning with increasingly bitter attacks on their rivals.

Labour has said the Tories’ election message centres on the view that “this is as good as it gets” for Britain, while Rishi Sunak doubled down on his warning not to “surrender” to the opposition party.

The Prime Minister also sounded the alarm over national security, claiming that Russian president Vladimir Putin “does not want us to be re-elected”. “At the heart of the Tory campaign is the view that this is as good as it gets for the UK,” the party said. It was put to him that the UK has become poorer by many measures over the past 14 years the Conservatives have been in power, and that public services are deteriorating.“Our schoolchildren are now the best readers in the western world.

Both Sir Keir and Mr Sunak will hit the trail on Monday for the final push in a six-week campaign, with the Labour leader touring the shires in southern England and the Prime Minister in the Midlands.

 

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