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General Election LIVE: Sunak hopes people can 'find it in their hearts' to forgive D-day debacle
10 June 2024, 07:23 | Updated: 10 June 2024, 14:10
The PM said he did not intend to cause 'any hurt' and asked the public to "find it in their hearts to forgive" him.
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Rishi Sunak has defiantly said he will carry on 'fighting' to win the election as he insisted the result is not a foregone conclusion.
Labour have said that they will turn empty classrooms into 3,300 nurseries and give all primary schoolchildren free breakfasts, as part of a plan to turn childcare around.
Lib Dems pledge to rejoin EU's Single Market and introduce a £9billion NHS and care 'rescue' package in manifesto
Voters across the country will go to the polls on July 4.
Follow the latest developments below
Today's Highlights
- There are three days to go until Thursday's General Election.
- Labour planning to 'change democracy to permanently keep themselves in power', James Cleverly claims
- The Liberal Democrats are promoting a pledge to spend £440 million a year supporting widows and bereaved children during their toughest moments.
- "Disillusioned" Reform UK candidate disowns party following racism row and endorses Tories instead.
- Harriet Harman wants a new generation of female MPs to be "rebellious" and "put women first."
Angela Rayner: carers will receive 'real' living wage and 16 year olds will be allowed to vote under Labour
Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner has said carers in England will receive the real living wage "as quickly as possible".
Speaking at Citizens UK’s General Election Assembly, Ms Rayner said: "You save so much money by having a skilled care workforce".
She also said she was "determined" to give 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote.
Reflecting on the election, Ms Rayner said that parts of the campaign have been “nasty”.
She added greater devolution is one of the “key things” she wants to deliver, if elected later this week.
Sunak: 'most relaxing part of my day so far'
Rishi Sunak took part in cricket exercises with youth teams at Nuneaton Cricket Club, in Warwickshire.
He said it was "the most relaxing part" of his day so far. The Prime Minister even hit the ball in the direction of watching journalists when it was his turn to bat.
Reform UK has ‘more diversity than any other party’ says Chairman
Questioned by Andrew Marr about toxic candidates in the Reform UK party, Chairman of Reform UK Richard Tice responded saying “I do not accept that there is a toxic element around the party.”
Mr Tice claimed there was “huge diversity within our party.
“Our deputy leader is from an ethnic minority and our other joint deputy leader is gay, so in terms of the leadership we have more diversity than any other party and we are very proud of that.”
Andrew Marr reacts to Ed Davey's bungee jump
Andrew Marr says "I just wish Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer would measure up as well" and join the Lib Dem leader in election stunts.
Reform UK party chairman: Tories have played "dirty tricks campaign"
Reform UK party chairman Richard Tice has accused the Tories of a "dirty tricks campaign" by offering bribes to Reform candidates for them to defect to Conservative.
He told LBC's Tonight with Andrew Marr he believes Reform UK will win seats in the election and "shy Reformers" will lead to surprise results.
LBC's Tonight with Andrew Marr weighs in on the latest General Election updates
Watch again: Crime and Policing Minister Chris Philp joins LBC's Tom Swarbrick
'You talk of a supermajority as meaning dozens of seats': Tom Swarbrick questions Tory minister
Speaking to LBC's Tom Swarbrick, Tory minister Chris Philp defined a supermajority as "in the dozens or even in the hundreds" of seats.
He added a supermajority in the upcoming election would leave "the leader of the [winning] party" as "pretty much unchecked".
But Tom Swarbrick questioned if Mr Philp felt the same when the Tories won with a majority of 80 seats in 2019
'Mmmm, rich': Sunak visits a distillery
Rishi Sunak has visited Cotswold Distillery in Stratford Upon Avon as part of his election campaign route
The Prime Minister toured the site with the company’s founder Daniel Szor, its chief executive Jeremy Parsons, and Tory candidate for Stratford upon Avon, Chris Clarkson.
In 2019 former chancellor Nadim Zahawi held the seat with a majority of almost 20,000.
