General Election LIVE: 'It hurts and makes me angry' says Sunak after reform canvasser caught calling him racial slur

In response to claims that Britain will be "ruined" if Starmer comes to office, Oliver Dowden told Lewis Goodall on LBC that "buyer's remorse" will set in. 

He said: "I understand people's frustration about what's happened over the past few years, but the point I would make to people - indeed as I'm doing in my own constituency - is just stop and think. 

"To think in six months' time, I'm pretty sure if Labour win the election, the shine will come off quickly, how are they going to feel about more taxes, more migration, more strikes, building over their green belt and actually, will they still be glad in six months' time?

"I think the buyer's remorse will set in pretty quickly and the bigger the majority, the bigger the buyer's remorse."

When speaking to Lewis Goodall on Sunday morning, Oliver Dowden was asked whether Nigel Farage has done enough to show Reform isn't a racist party.

He responded: "I still have questions about some of Nigel Farage's candidates.

"For example, I represent a very large Jewish community - to the best of my knowledge there's still a Reform candidate standing who has said that Jews are responsible for shipping Muslims into this country. 

"That sort of language seems to exist amongst a large number of their candidates but ultimately that's for Nigel Farage to explain and to justify and to take appropriate action."

Rishi Sunak said the UK is a better place to live in now than it was when the Tories took office in 2010. 

 The Prime Minister told the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg: "It's a better place to live than it was in 2010. "

Of course I understand that the last few years have been difficult for everyone. 

 He cited the pandemic and the war in Ukraine driving up energy bills, insisting "we are now on the right track". 

 It was put to him that the country has become poorer by many measures since 2010, and public services are worse. 

 "I just don't accept that," Mr Sunak replied, citing education and saying "our schoolchildren are now the best readers in the western world".

Sir Ed Davey has tried his hand at archery in Little Paxton in Cambrideshire while on the election trail. 

The Lib Dem leader failed to hit any bullseyes on the target but scored several eight-pointers.

Fife Council has joined Edinburgh City Council in taking urgent action to make sure people who have not received their postal votes yet can still exercise their right to vote.

They have set up emergency centres for residents to have their ballots reissued, or cast their vote ahead of July 4.

Shadow Minister for Industry and Decarbonisation Sarah Jones has said "parliament needs a range of voices" making decisions, in response to David Lammy's comments that the Tories aren't the right "class of people" to run Britain.

Talking to LBC's Tom Swarbrick, she said "it's a fair observation that the government in charge hasn't been in touch with working people and problems of day to day life".

Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy said Conservative MPs had a "public-school smallness".

Foreign Office Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan has told LBC's Tom Swarbrick the racial slurs directed to Rishi Sunak by a Reform UK campaigner are "unacceptable in modern day politics".

She added it was right to forgive Tory donor Frank Hester's comments about Diane Abbott because he apologised, but the comments by Reform's activist aren't the same. 

Mr Hester was the centre of a political controversy after claims he said Ms Abbott "should be shot".

Asked what job she would do if she weren't an MP, Education Secretary Gillian Keegan told students "I might have to answer that question next Friday".

She was joined by Labour candidate Tom Collinge and Liberal Democrat Jess Brown-Fuller, where children in Years 3 to 10 asked them questions.

The pupils at Chichester Free School are taking part in the school’s own election, casting their ballots on July 4.

The leader of the Green Party in Northern Ireland Mal O'Hara has asked people to not vote tactically in the election.

"If we keep voting like we have done we will have the shameful record on social environmental justice that this executive has presided over and we won't make change".

He also acknowledged his party "have had a couple of tough elections", but said it's back, with its highest membership in recent years.

He added people get "side tracked into the debate around the constitutional question and around identity politics rather than the bread and butter failures" and vowed his party will call those failures out.