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One of Rishi Sunak’s most loyal Tory colleagues has today conceded Sir Keir Starmer is likely to score the biggest majority in a general election when the polls open.

Mel Stride declared Labour was heading for a landslide victory less than 24 hours before voting opens across the country.

The damning forecast comes just hours after former prime minister Boris Johnson lifted Conservative spirits by addressing a rally in London in a dramatic 11th hour intervention in the campaign.

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Nigel Farage urges voters to ‘join people’s revolt’

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has urged voters to join the ‘people’s revolt’ to break up the ‘rotten two-party system’ in a last ditch appeal to voters.

Mr Farage has tweeted his words given to The Sun newspaper in which he insists Reform can become the opposition to a Labour government led by Sir Keir Starmer.

Mr Farage will be campaigning in Clacton today and will give a final address at 6pm.

Keir Starmer – Time to turn the page on 14 years of failure

RETRANSMITTING ADDING NAMELabour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer (centre) with First Minister of Wales Vaughan Gething (right) and local parliamentary candidate for  Carmarthenshire, Martha O'Neil, during a visit to the West Regwm Farm Events Venue in Whitland, Carmarthenshire, while on the General Election campaign trail. Picture date: Wednesday July 3, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Election Labour. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Sir Keir Starmer has told voters it’s time to ‘turn the page and rebuild with Labour’.

The Labour leader spent the morning of the final day of the campaign trail in Carmarthenshire before later visits to Scotland and the West Midlands.

We’ve now had 14 years of chaos and division and failure, and the choice tomorrow is to bring that to an end, to turn the page and to start to rebuild with Labour.

I’ve been saying throughout this campaign that if they are returned on Friday for five more years of the Tories we won’t get anything different, it will be the same.

They’ve evidenced it in the campaign because Rishi Sunak started by campaigning with David Cameron. Then he borrowed Liz Truss’s programme and put it in his manifesto of unfunded tax cuts.

And last night they wheeled out Boris Johnson. When I say chaos, division and failure, they’ve just exhibited it in the campaign.

Pictured: Ed Davey hits campaign trail in Wiltshire

Pictures have emerged of Sir Ed Davey on the campaign trail in Wiltshire today.

The Lib Dem leader will spend the final hours in the county and Hampshire where he hopes to beat the Conservatives.

Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey during a visit to Owl Lodge in Lacock, Wiltshire, while on the General Election campaign trail. Picture date: Wednesday July 3, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Election LibDems. Photo credit should read: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire
Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey during a visit to Owl Lodge in Lacock, Wiltshire, while on the General Election campaign trail. Picture date: Wednesday July 3, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Election LibDems. Photo credit should read: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire
Liberal Democrats leader Sir Ed Davey during a visit to Owl Lodge in Lacock, Wiltshire, while on the General Election campaign trail. Picture date: Wednesday July 3, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Election LibDems. Photo credit should read: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

Keir Starmer – Constituencies could come down to a few hundred votes

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer arrives for a visit to the West Regwm Farm Events Venue in Whitland, Carmarthenshire, while on the General Election campaign trail. Picture date: Wednesday July 3, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Election Labour. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

The Labour leader has kicked off his final day on the campaign trail by insisting some constituencies could be decided by a ‘few hundred votes’ and admitting voters needed to be convinced that change is possible.

Speaking in Carmathenshire alongside Welsh Labour leader Vaughan Gething, Sir Keir Starmer warned there remained many undecided voters less than 24 hours before the polls open.

He told people that change from 14 years of chaos, division and failure was only possible if voters choose Labour at the ballot box and said the party had campaigned with a ‘spring in its step’.

He finished by urging people to vote with the message: ‘let’s go out, let’s do it with that positivity.’

Keir Starmer speaking in Wales

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is speaking at a campaign event in South Wales.

We will bring you the best lines from his speech.

Pat McFadden – I’ve had boiled eggs last longer than Tory unity

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Thomas Krych/ZUMA Press Wire/Shutterstock (14503782p) Labour's National Campaign Coordinator PAT MCFADDEN being interviewed in Westminster during the morning media round. Pat McFadden Morning Broadcast Round, London, England, United Kingdom - 23 May 2024

Labour’s national campaign co-ordinator Pat McFadden, again a familiar voice on the morning interview round, is batting for Sir Keir Starmer on the last day of campaigning.

Let’s recap what he has had to say:

  • Mr McFadden has criticised the ‘show of unity’ displayed by the Conservatives at a campaign rally in London last night, insisting he’s had ‘boiled eggs’ that have lasted longer than Tories being on the same page.
  • Asked if he would ‘fear’ going up against Mr Johnson as a campaigner or prime minister more than Sunak, he said Mr Johnson had destroyed his credibility through partygate and destruction of standards in public life.
  • Challenged over tax, he was and asked if the party would rule out any changes to inheritance tax, including any changes to the threshold at which it comes in.
  • Asked what changes Labour could introduced if there is no economic growth, Mr McFadden said he would not admit defeat over plans to grow the economy.
  • Dismissed concerns over Labour ‘super-majority’ and said calling the outcome of the election was ‘disrespectful’ to voters

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Lib Dems insist Ed Davey has shone spotlight on ‘serious issues’

PABestLiberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey falls from a surfboard during a visit to Big Blue Surf School in Bude in Cornwall, while on the General Election campaign trail. Picture date: Tuesday July 2, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Election LibDems. Photo credit should read: Matt Keeble/PA Wire

Lib Dems’ education spokeswoman Munira Wilson has insisted party leader Sir Ed Davey has struck a balance between ‘serious issues’ and making sure he has a better time than party leaders.

Asked on LBC’s Nick Ferrari at Breakfast if Sir Ed’s ‘boogie boarding to bungee jumping’ campaign has worked, Ms Wilson said:

Well, we’re all talking about it and we are talking about the issues.

I think he’s really taken himself not very seriously to shine a spotlight on serious issues.

I think he’s got a balance between really serious issues that people are worried about and also, frankly, making sure that he has a somewhat better time than some of the other party leaders – but also not taking himself too seriously, which I think politicians too often do.

The Lib Dem leader has spent six weeks carrying out a series of election stunts which have included falling off a paddleboard, conducting interviews on a waterslide and bungee jumping.

Mel Stride – Labour heading for extraordinary landslide

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Wiktor Szymanowicz/Shutterstock (14531084ag) Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Mel Stride gives an interview to the media outside the BBC Broadcasting House after attending the Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg show. Guests Attend BBC Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg Show, London, UK - 09 Jun 2024

Rishi Sunak’s arch loyalist Mel Stride, the Work and Pensions Secretary, has toured the broadcast studios again this morning making it the umpteenth time he has batted for the Conservatives in the morning interviews.

Here’s the main points from his interviews earlier this morning with LBC, Sky News, GB News and BBC Radio 4.

  • Mr Stride warned Labour is heading for an ‘extraordinary landslide’ never before seen in this country and told voters they would ‘regret’ a situation in which Sir Keir Starmer is handed ‘untrammelled’ power.
  • He said there will be plenty of time for ‘post-mortems’ of the Conservatives’ performance after polling day, as well as the party’s future direction.
  • He insisted ‘many’ public services in the UK have improved after 14 years of Tory rule which had seen readers become the ‘best readers’ in the Western world with fewer pensioners living in poverty.
  • Work and Pensions Secretary said he was most proud of having ‘supported pensioners’ during his time in government.

Final day of the election campaign: Where will the leaders be?

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 2: UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak talks at a campaign event at the National Army Museum on July 2, 2024 in London, England. Rishi Sunak has been appealing to voters to stop a Labour "super majority" by lending votes to the Conservatives on the penultimate day of the general election campaign. (Photo by Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)

So this it, in less than 24 hours the polls will open as six weeks of campaigning draws to a close.

But there’s plenty happening today with Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer on the road for the last time before the country votes.

  • The Prime Minister is expected to appear on the This Morning sofa before he heads to Hampshire this afternoon. Mr Sunak will also speak at a campaign event in the evening in his home county.
  • The Labour leader will give a speech in Wales this morning before heading to Scotland in the afternoon and then the West Midlands this evening.
  • Lib Dem’s chief will visit Chippenham this morning before also heading to Hampshire this afternoon and later Hertfordshire.
  • Reform UK leader will spend the afternoon campaigning in Clacton where he is standing in the election in his eighth attempt to enter Parliament.
  • Scotland’s First Minister and SNP leader will visit Cumbernauld this morning before heading to Glasgow in the afternoon and will end the day with a speech in Leith this evening.
  • Plaid Cymru’s leader will join the party’s candidate for the Caerfyrddin seat, Ann Davies, for a campaigning event in Ammanford, Carmarthen, this morning.
  • Green co-leader will campaign in Bristol Central where she hopes to beat Labour in the election.

Watch: Boris Johnson wades into election campaign

Watch Boris Johnson make his surprise return to the campaign frontline as he spoke on stage at a Conservative rally in London.

During his speech, he attacked Sir Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage and urged undecided voters to support Rishi Sunak at the polls.

There’s no better place to start than the dramatic return of Boris Johnson who appeared at a Conservative campaign rally last night.

MailOnline’s Eirian Prosser and The Daily Mail’s Political Editor Jason Groves report Mr Johnson was unleashed as the Tory party’s secret weapon last night, answering the Prime Minister’s calls as he warned undecided voters a Labour landslide would be ‘pregnant with horrors’.

Good morning!

Hello and welcome to MailOnline’s live coverage as we embark on the final day of campaigning for the 2024 general election.

Britain will head to the polls in less than 24 hours as voters decide the next Parliament tasked with taking the country forward.

Last night, Rishi Sunak received a welcome boost when Boris Johnson addressed a Conservative rally in London, marking his first major return to the political frontline since his premiership.

Meanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will whizz across the nation on campaign stops in Scotland, Wales and the West Midlands where no doubt he will urge against complacency ahead expectations he is heading for a huge majority.

Follow our live coverage throughout the day as we bring you the latest news, reaction and pictures as the campaign enters its final hours.



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