General Election LIVE: Labour raises 14 times more donations than Tories in first two weeks of General Election campaign

Philip Hammond has told LBC's Tonight with Andrew Marr: "The outcome of the election was determined in the Autumn of 2022." 

He added: "I think the public had started to make up its mind during the partygate shenanigans and then the Liz Truss government was the final straw for many people." 

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has told LBC's Tonight with Andrew Marr: "If we are elected next week, one of my first calls on the Friday will be to the BMA."

Responding to planned industrial action from NHS junior doctors, Mr Streeting added: "I think it's an indictment, really, on this government that we've got to this stage in the General Election campaign with strike action still coming."

Labour's Darren Jones has told LBC's Tom Swarbrick: 

"I think the Telegraph and whoever came to secretly record my event, and they were very welcome they could have declared themselves, are trying to do what I think might be called a hit job, but very unsuccessfully."

The shadow chief secretary to the treasury was responding to leaked audio obtained by the Telegraph which records him saying that Labour's green pledge will cost "hundreds of billions" of pounds. 

Welsh First Minister for Labour Vaughan Gething received a £200,000 donation in his bid to become leader, from a company whose owner was convicted of environmental crimes.

The Home Secretary said: “When I went to Wales, people were furious that the Welsh leader (Mr Gething) refused to take responsibility for what at best is very, very foolish in terms of his financial arrangements.”

“They cannot believe that just when the economy is starting to recover that before it has fully recovered, Labour in Wales is thinking about adding to the number of members in the Senedd, costing millions.”

The Home Secretary also declined to say whether rules around betting on politics should be changed and denies having ever placed a political bet of any kind.

During a campaign visit to Nottinghamshire, he told broadcasters: “We don’t know yet whether any existing rules have been broken” and refused to comment on the Gambling Commission’s investigation.

Mr Cleverly also called the betting row “distracting” saying he would “prefer to be talking about the important issues."

James Cleverly has said Labour and Reform have the "same problem" when it comes to migration in that they "don't have a plan". 

The Home Secretary claimed people across the Channel “are praying for a Labour government because they have heard that a Labour government would remove the Rwanda deterrent.”

Mr Cleverly added that Labour's “grand idea on border control is to do less than we are currently doing and somehow hope that it has better results.”

In an ITV interview, responding to questions submitted via social media, the Labour Party leader said university tuition fees "don't work well for either students or for universities". 

He added: "There's only money available to either bring down the waiting lists in the NHS, that's desperately needed, or to spend it on other things like getting rid of tuition fees. I've taken the choice, the political choice, that we spend it on the NHS to get our waiting lists down." 

Sir Keir rejected that the Labour Party would bring in a rent cap, but said he would: "Certainly stop landlords being able to force tenants, effectively, to bid against each other which just means the rent goes up and up and up. We need to stop that."

On the Israel-Hamas war, Sir Keir again pushed for: "A foot in the door for the political solution to this, the political settlement, which is a two-state solution, a viable Palestinian state alongside a safe and secure Israel."

He also said that first past the post is the "right system" for the UK and that his party is "not considering decriminalisation of cannabis or any drugs".  

 AI-powered analysis of hundreds of hours of election interviews and discussions on TV, radio and podcasts reveals that over the last seven days the topic of tax was mentioned more than three times as often as immigration, family, or health on the campaign trail.

This included 62 mentions of high-profile claims which Full Fact, the UK’s largest fact checking charity, has concluded are misleading.

The Conservative Party’s claims that a Labour government would lead to £2,000 tax increase for a working family, is an unreliable figure based on a number of assumptions and unclear details of Labour’s plans. 

It is also a cumulative estimate, meaning the Conservatives are claiming every working family will pay £2,000 more in taxes over the next four years, rather than annually.

The Labour Party’s claim that a Conservative government would lead to £4,800 increase in mortgage payments, is also a speculative figure that also relies upon uncertain assumptions.

Martin Lewis has criticised the Conservatives for using him in an attack ad claiming Labour would hike taxes.

The Money Saving Expert founder has rebuked a post by the Tories on X, formerly Twitter, which included a clip of him describing how a senior Labour member had told him they wanted to introduce a policy that was not in its manifesto.

The video was featured alongside the words: “They’re not telling you the full truth. Labour have said they wouldn’t put up your taxes. But it’s now becoming clear that they have every intention to put them up.”

Mr Lewis said the discussion he had been referring to was not about tax rises.

“NO WHERE in this comment do I talk about taxes,” he wrote on X.

The Tories’ original post was later tagged with a “community note” – a feature on X allowing readers to add context to a claim.