Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has asked voters to refrain from handing “unchecked power” to Labour.
The campaign of general election draws to a close in the UKwith party leaders spread across the country in a last attempt to secure votes.
As time runs out for convince the undecidedsenior Tory officials have admitted likely defeat but have called on voters to cast their ballots tactically in a bid to limit Labor’s margin of victory. Sunak himself has called on voters to “prevent a Labor supermajority” and prevent the party from gaining “unchecked power.”
As the Prime Minister visited Hampshire, southeast England, on Tuesday, one of his closest allies – Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride – said: Labor was on track to achieve the “largest majority any party has ever achieved”.
Boris Johnson, reaparece
Labor leader Keir Starmer called the move a deliberate tactic to try “to get people to stay at home instead of voting.” Less than 48 hours before voters cast their ballots, Boris Johnson made a surprise campaign appearance for the Conservatives on Tuesday – his first so far – accusing Starmer of trying to “introduce the most left-wing Labor Government since the war”.
But the former prime minister did not appear alongside Sunak, a move that has fueled speculation about deep disagreements within the party. Responding to Johnson’s appearance, Keir Starmer said his Tory opponents had “turned to the architect of chaos and division” in a desperate attempt to secure voters.
Los Labor leads the Conservatives by 20 points in the polls percentages and aspire to one of the greater majorities of any post-war government in the United Kingdom.
Labor Starmer closed his campaign crossing Wales, England and Scotland
During a campaign appearance in Carmarthenshire, Wales, where the party is tied in the polls with the Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru, he told supporters that a Labor victory on Thursday It would mean that the governments in Cardiff and London would “work together, not against each other”. Labor has ruled in Wales for more than three decadessince the beginning of decentralization.
For his part, Nigel Farage, who aspires to enter the House of Commons in what will be his eighth candidacy, spent the last day of campaigning in his constituency of Clacton-on-Sea, in Essex. His party, Reform UK, has risen in the polls since Farage announced that he would run, and is expected to get until 15% of the national votes. But the British system of relative majorityin which the candidate who gets the most votes in their local constituency is elected, means Reform could win none or very few of the 650 seats in the House of Commons.
Farage has built his campaign on a stance of hard line against immigration, with promises such as freezing all non-essential immigration and prohibiting immigrants’ access to social benefits. However, a recent interview in which he claimed that the West had provoked the Russian invasion of Ukraine sapped his steam.
Ed Davey, leader of the liberal democratsparticipated in a tractor race in Wiltshire on his last day of campaigning. He had previously been seen paddle-boarding and bungee jumping on the campaign trail, in what he described as an attempt to encourage voters to do something they had “never done before” by voting Liberal Democrat.
written on the wall
Suella Bravermanthe former Minister of the Interior who was dismissed by Rishi Sunak last year, said on Wednesday that the Conservative Party had to “read the writing on the wall” and “prepare for the reality and frustration of the opposition.”
Braverman is one of the rumored candidates who could replace Sunak at the head of the conservatives if on Thursday there is the resounding defeat that polls have long predicted for his party.
The slow growth, the cost of living crisis and the feeling that public services are deteriorating across the country have been some of the deepest concerns of voters in the run-up to the vote.
Keir Starmerin pole position to become the next prime ministersaid on Wednesday that Labor offered an option to “turn the page” on 14 years of “chaos, division and failure”.
