'Who do you trust': Sunak casts Labour as a party without a plan, Starmer vows to 'stop the chaos'

'Who do you trust': Sunak casts Labour as a party without a plan, Starmer vows to 'stop the chaos' Keir Starmer will face Rishi Sunak as the British election season gets under way for a vote on 4 July. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his Labour Party rival Keir Starmer will kick off their election campaigns in earnest on Thursday, a day after Sunak surprised the nation by calling a vote for 4 July.

At stake is control of the world's sixth largest economy which has endured years of low growth and high inflation, is still battling to make a success of its 2016 decision to exit the European Union, and is slowly recovering from twin shocks of Covid-19 and an energy price spike caused by the war in Ukraine.

Britain's Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative party, Rishi Sunak waves as he arrives to speak at a general election campaign event at the ExCeL in east London. Starmer, a 61-year-old former lawyer who has pulled Labour's politics back to the centre ground after a spell of electorally unsuccessful left-wing leadership, has pitched his party as one that will bring change for a disgruntled electorate.

While the electioneering gets under way, activity in parliament is expected to pick up too as the government works out which of the pieces of legislation currently in process will be rushed through, and which will fall by the wayside.

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