General Election LIVE: Planes, trains and a bicycle on the campaign as Sunak deploys his wife Akshata Murty

• Millions of people are voting in the UK general election, with polls open until 10pm. Voters are reminded to bring photo ID to vote in person.

  Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer have cast their ballots as they vie to win the General Election after weeks of campaigning.

  Polling stations across the UK opened at 7am, giving millions of voters the chance to decide if the Tory incumbent remains in the top job or the Labour leader enters Downing Street.

  Mr Sunak, who has insisted the results are not a foregone conclusion despite dire poll ratings for his party, voted in his Richmond constituency.

  He waved at reporters as he and his wife Akshata Murty arrived hand-in-hand at the Kirby Sigston Village Hall, as he hopes to be returned to Parliament as the MP for Richmond and Northallerton.

  Sir Keir was also joined by his wife, Victoria, as he visited a polling station in his Holborn and St Pancras constituency.

  The Labour leader told his final rally in Redditch, Worcestershire, on Wednesday night to "imagine a Britain moving forward together with a Labour government".

  He added: "That's what we are fighting for, let's continue that fight.

  As the bookies' favourite to be the next prime minister, Sir Keir said he was pleased with Labour's campaign and his party was "ready for what comes next".

  A victory for Sir Keir would see Labour return to power for the first time in 14 years.

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Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper said the party has focused on taking Conservative seats in the General Election rather than competing with Labour. 

Ms Cooper said: “We’ve always said that our target is to remove as many Conservative MPs as possible. We are in second place to the Conservatives in around 80 seats around the country, and we’ve had to target our resources in those areas.”

She added that the Conservatives have "taken a wrecking ball to standards in public life".

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has entered his party's rally at Clacton pier on an army vehicle to the tune of Without Me by Eminem.

He addressed the crowd on immigration, saying: “How are you getting on for dentists in Clacton? Well then you should have come by dinghy.”

Mr Farage went on to start a chant of: “We want our country back.”

Sir Keir Starmer said he hopes tomorrow's election will see Britain start to rise to the challenge of populism, adding it's a “huge chance to take our country forward”.

The Labour leader stressed his desire to address the “shared challenge” presented by populism “across Europe and across the world”.

Following the electoral success of the populist National Rally party in France and polls suggesting Donald Trump could return to the White House, Sir Keir has spoken of the need to offer a “progressive” alternative to populism.

Populism is a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups. 

It is frequently associated with anti-establishment and anti-political sentiment.

Reflecting on the campaign on its last day, Starmer also said he was “surprised by the negativity of the Tory campaign” with its focus on warning about a Labour “supermajority”.

Rishi Sunak has insisted he is still in the election fight after one of his closest allies appeared to concede the Conservatives were heading to a heavy defeat. 

The Prime Minister said he was “doing what I believe is right for the country” and could “look myself in the mirror” knowing he had worked as hard as he could.

But his Cabinet ally Mel Stride acknowledged Labour was likely to win “the largest majority any party has ever achieved”.

Suella Braverman admitted to Tory defeat this morning saying: "It's over and we need to prepare for the reality and frustration of opposition."

Despite this, Mr Sunak has said he will fight on: “This election is ongoing. I am campaigning hard for every vote.”

“'Clear conscience is the softest pillow’, as my father-in-law says

“I am someone who has the courage of my convictions, I’m not someone who changes their opinion with the weather, which is what Keir Starmer does”, the PM added. 

The Lib Dem leader gave a stump speech at Hammond’s End Farm in Harpenden to the tune of ABBA’s Take A Chance On Me.

Confetti and pyrotechnics blasted out before Sir Ed and Ms Cooper departed in the back of the car.

Sir Ed told supporters: “We have a special job to kick the Conservatives out of government and then to start repairing the terrible damage they’ve done to our country.”

Labour may have to hike inheritance tax or raid pensions in the future, a new tax adviser to Rachel Reeves has admitted.

Sir Edward Troup, the former HMRC Permanent Secretary, is one of a new panel of experts Labour has appointed to advise on its efforts to “modernise” the tax office.

Read more here: Labour may have to hike inheritance tax or raid pensions, Rachel Reeves' adviser admits - but move will be 'unpopular'

Sir Keir Starmer has said he "doesn’t think" the UK will rejoin the European single market in his lifetime.

The Labour leader said: “I’ve been really clear about not rejoining the EU, the single market, or the customs union, or returning to freedom of movement."

He added: "I’ve been equally clear that I do think we can get a better deal than the botched deal we got under Boris Johnson.”

Sir Keir Starmer has said a crisis in prison capacity is a "shocking indictment on this Government". 

The Labour leader was asked whether he would contemplate releasing prisoners early to deal with the situation.

 He responded: "I'm very concerned about the situation because it's appalling that we're in a place [...] where the Government has allowed a situation where we don't have enough prison places for the people who need to be in prison."

In what would appear to be an early declaration of victory, Sir Keir Starmer added: “We’re going to have to get on with the hard yards of sorting this mess out.”