UK general election latest: Boris Johnson boosts Tory spirits ahead of Rishi Sunak’s final day on the campaign trail – but PM loyalist concedes Keir Starmer is likely to score biggest ever majority when polls open

Leaders Rishi Sunak, Sir Keir Starmer and Sir Ed Davey have doing their final stops on the campaign trail with polls opening first thing tomorrow morning.

It has been a busy morning so here’s the key takeaways you need to know:

• Rishi Sunak said Boris Johnson’s address at a campaign rally showed Conservatives were coming together as he laughed off suggestions he was too late in bringing on his ‘super-sub’
• The Prime Minister told ITV’s This Morning he was proud of the Tory campaign which he said was based around cutting taxes and protecting pensions
• He also said he planned to eat an ‘election pie’ from his local butchers during election night despite his favourite meal being sandwiches.
• Sir Keir Starmer has appeared at an event in Wales where he warned warns some constituencies could be decided by just a few hundred votes
• He also accused the Conservatives of ‘voter suppression’ over warnings that Labour is heading for the largest parliamentary majority ever seen in Britain.
• Sir Ed Davey has insisted the Liberal Democrats are coming for the blue wall in the Home Counties and the west country as he took part in a tractor race in Wiltshire.

Sir Ed Davey has told reporters he is proud of highlighting caring in his election campaign at one of his final events.

The Liberal Democrat leader has got behind the wheel of a yellow JCB tractor, with the phrase “he who dares wins” emblazoned on its window, to race another vehicle in a field in Chippenham.

Speaking to reporters afterwards, he said:

We’ve talked about the blue wall in the home counties, we’ve talked about the blue wall in the west country. This is the blue wall across rural Britain, and the yellow tractor is coming for it.

I’m really proud in this election campaign that, as well as having a bit of fun, we have brought the issue of caring out of the shadows.

We have made the argument that if you look after family carers, if you look after professional carers, you can rescue our NHS as well.

That’s the message I want people to have as they go into the voting booths.

The Prime Minister insisted he will work ‘day and night’ when asked about Keir Starmer’s ambition to spend Friday nights with his children.

Mr Sunak was asked about this party’s response to Sir Keir Starmer’s comments that Friday night dinner is important to his family and that he tries to “not do a work-related thing after 6pm” on Fridays.

Speaking to This Morning, Mr Sunak said:

I think what Keir was saying he was with his kids on a Friday night out watching cheerleading or kickboxing rather than doing that. But the point is this, everyone’s going to do this job in a different way.”

One of the things I’ve spoken about a lot is that doing this job means I’m not as good as dad, I’m not as good a husband, as I would love to be, and that comes with the territory of being in public service and having the responsibility to be Prime Minister, to do a great job for everyone who’s watching.

Mr Sunak said he will ‘work day and night’ to make a difference to people’s lives and appreciated the ‘enormous privilege’ of having the country’s top job.

The Prime Minister insisted he was proud of the Conservative campaign which he said was around cutting taxes and protecting pensions.

He insisted flights will go to Rwanda if he remains Prime Minister on Friday and warned Labour would make the UK the ‘soft touch of Europe’.

On immigration, he said sending asylum seekers to a safe country was the right approach and that he doesn’t mind leading on the issue in Europe.

Asked about the criticism Sir Keir Starmer has faced for spending Friday nights with his family, Mr Sunak said he would work night and day for the country to make a difference to people’s lives.

In a softball question, Mr Sunak added he was planning to eat a specially made ‘election pie’ from his local butchers in North Yorkshire tomorrow night and that his favourite meal is sandwiches.

We will bring you more soon.

The Prime Minister is speaking on the sofa with Ben Shepherd and Cat Deeley.

We will bring you the best of what he has to say.

Labour’s Pat McFadden has called on interviewers to stop using transgender people as a “gotcha question” for politicians.

On LBC’s Nick Ferrari at Breakfast, the presenter asked Mr McFadden for his party’s policy on transgender women using female-only spaces.

This (question) is concerning women’s safety – the Conservatives have sought to make quite an issue over whether a transgender woman… what toilet she should use; now the headline says that ‘Transgender women do not have the right to use female-only spaces, Sir Keir Starmer has said in another flip-flopping stance.

Where would a transgender woman go to the bathroom in a restaurant that has just got a man and a woman’s facility?

Where do they go at the moment, Nick?”

You’ve enjoyed asking this question, I think, in recent days, Nick.

See the video below for the full exchange:

The Labour leader is in Wales this morning as he heads out on a whistlestop UK tour with visits later in Scotland and England.

Here’s what you need to know from his first event:

• Labour leader warns some constituencies could be decided by just a few hundred votes as he admitted there remained many undecided voters before the polls open tomorrow.
• He accuses the Conservatives of ‘voter suppression’ over warnings earlier today that Labour is heading for the largest parliamentary majority ever seen in Britain.
• Mr Starmer described Boris Johnson as the ‘architect’ of 14 years of Conservative chaos, division and failure, adding his appearance at a campaign rally last night showed their campaign was ‘desperate’
• In contrast, Mr Starmer said Labour had campaigned with a ‘spring in its step’ and delivered a positive message to the country as he urged people to go out and vote.

Sir Keir Starmer insisted he was not rattled by Boris Johnson’s intervention in the Conservative campaign.

Asked whether he was concerned by the former prime minister’s appearance given his appeal to some voters, the Labour leader told broadcasters on a campaign visit to Carmarthenshire:

I’ve been arguing the last 14 years have been about chaos and division. Last night they wheeled out the architect of chaos and division, so I think that just shows the kind of desperate, negative place they’ve got to with their campaign.

He said the Labour campaign had been, by contrast, ‘positive, confident’ and ‘about the change that we need in our country’.

Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch may be blocked from standing in a future Conservative leadership contest because of a delay in postal votes being sent out in her constituency, according to a report.

Ms Badenoch is expected to be among possible successors to Mr Sunak in the event the party heads in another direction after the election.

But a delay in sending out around 2,600 postal votes in North West Essex means that if she wins by a tight margain her victory could rightly be challenged leading to a fresh by-election

In that scenario, Ms Badenoch would be ineligible to stand as a leadership contender because she would be considered a candidate and not an MP until the fresh vote is held.

The story originally appeared in The Times newspaper.

Watch a daily politics briefing from the PA News Agency as the election campaign reaches its final stages.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has urged voters to join the ‘people’s revolt’ to break up the ‘rotten two-party system’ in a last ditch appeal to voters.

Mr Farage has tweeted his words given to The Sun newspaper in which he insists Reform can become the opposition to a Labour government led by Sir Keir Starmer.

Mr Farage will be campaigning in Clacton today and will give a final address at 6pm.

Sir Keir Starmer has told voters it’s time to ‘turn the page and rebuild with Labour’.

The Labour leader spent the morning of the final day of the campaign trail in Carmarthenshire before later visits to Scotland and the West Midlands.

We’ve now had 14 years of chaos and division and failure, and the choice tomorrow is to bring that to an end, to turn the page and to start to rebuild with Labour.

I’ve been saying throughout this campaign that if they are returned on Friday for five more years of the Tories we won’t get anything different, it will be the same.

They’ve evidenced it in the campaign because Rishi Sunak started by campaigning with David Cameron. Then he borrowed Liz Truss’s programme and put it in his manifesto of unfunded tax cuts.

And last night they wheeled out Boris Johnson. When I say chaos, division and failure, they’ve just exhibited it in the campaign.

Pictures have emerged of Sir Ed Davey on the campaign trail in Wiltshire today.

The Lib Dem leader will spend the final hours in the county and Hampshire where he hopes to beat the Conservatives.

The Labour leader has kicked off his final day on the campaign trail by insisting some constituencies could be decided by a ‘few hundred votes’ and admitting voters needed to be convinced that change is possible.

Speaking in Carmathenshire alongside Welsh Labour leader Vaughan Gething, Sir Keir Starmer warned there remained many undecided voters less than 24 hours before the polls open.

He told people that change from 14 years of chaos, division and failure was only possible if voters choose Labour at the ballot box and said the party had campaigned with a ‘spring in its step’.

He finished by urging people to vote with the message: ‘let’s go out, let’s do it with that positivity.’

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is speaking at a campaign event in South Wales.

We will bring you the best lines from his speech.

Labour’s national campaign co-ordinator Pat McFadden, again a familiar voice on the morning interview round, is batting for Sir Keir Starmer on the last day of campaigning.

Let’s recap what he has had to say:

• Mr McFadden has criticised the ‘show of unity’ displayed by the Conservatives at a campaign rally in London last night, insisting he’s had ‘boiled eggs’ that have lasted longer than Tories being on the same page.
• Asked if he would ‘fear’ going up against Mr Johnson as a campaigner or prime minister more than Sunak, he said Mr Johnson had destroyed his credibility through partygate and destruction of standards in public life.
• Challenged over tax, he was and asked if the party would rule out any changes to inheritance tax, including any changes to the threshold at which it comes in.
• Asked what changes Labour could introduced if there is no economic growth, Mr McFadden said he would not admit defeat over plans to grow the economy.
• Dismissed concerns over Labour ‘super-majority’ and said calling the outcome of the election was ‘disrespectful’ to voters

Daily Mail columnist Sarah Vine writes politics, as Kemi Badenoch once said, is not about achieving the perfect solution, it’s about taking the least bad option and making it work.

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Lib Dems’ education spokeswoman Munira Wilson has insisted party leader Sir Ed Davey has struck a balance between ‘serious issues’ and making sure he has a better time than party leaders.

Asked on LBC’s Nick Ferrari at Breakfast if Sir Ed’s ‘boogie boarding to bungee jumping’ campaign has worked, Ms Wilson said:

Well, we’re all talking about it and we are talking about the issues.

I think he’s really taken himself not very seriously to shine a spotlight on serious issues.

I think he’s got a balance between really serious issues that people are worried about and also, frankly, making sure that he has a somewhat better time than some of the other party leaders – but also not taking himself too seriously, which I think politicians too often do.

The Lib Dem leader has spent six weeks carrying out a series of election stunts which have included falling off a paddleboard, conducting interviews on a waterslide and bungee jumping.

Rishi Sunak’s arch loyalist Mel Stride, the Work and Pensions Secretary, has toured the broadcast studios again this morning making it the umpteenth time he has batted for the Conservatives in the morning interviews.

Here’s the main points from his interviews earlier this morning with LBC, Sky News, GB News and BBC Radio 4.

• Mr Stride warned Labour is heading for an ‘extraordinary landslide’ never before seen in this country and told voters they would ‘regret’ a situation in which Sir Keir Starmer is handed ‘untrammelled’ power.
• He said there will be plenty of time for ‘post-mortems’ of the Conservatives’ performance after polling day, as well as the party’s future direction.
• He insisted ‘many’ public services in the UK have improved after 14 years of Tory rule which had seen readers become the ‘best readers’ in the Western world with fewer pensioners living in poverty.
• Work and Pensions Secretary said he was most proud of having ‘supported pensioners’ during his time in government.

So this it, in less than 24 hours the polls will open as six weeks of campaigning draws to a close.

But there’s plenty happening today with Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer on the road for the last time before the country votes.

• The Prime Minister is expected to appear on the This Morning sofa before he heads to Hampshire this afternoon. Mr Sunak will also speak at a campaign event in the evening in his home county.

• The Labour leader will give a speech in Wales this morning before heading to Scotland in the afternoon and then the West Midlands this evening.

• Lib Dem’s chief will visit Chippenham this morning before also heading to Hampshire this afternoon and later Hertfordshire.

• Reform UK leader will spend the afternoon campaigning in Clacton where he is standing in the election in his eighth attempt to enter Parliament.

• Scotland’s First Minister and SNP leader will visit Cumbernauld this morning before heading to Glasgow in the afternoon and will end the day with a speech in Leith this evening.

• Plaid Cymru’s leader will join the party’s candidate for the Caerfyrddin seat, Ann Davies, for a campaigning event in Ammanford, Carmarthen, this morning.

• Green co-leader will campaign in Bristol Central where she hopes to beat Labour in the election.

Watch Boris Johnson make his surprise return to the campaign frontline as he spoke on stage at a Conservative rally in London.

During his speech, he attacked Sir Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage and urged undecided voters to support Rishi Sunak at the polls.

There’s no better place to start than the dramatic return of Boris Johnson who appeared at a Conservative campaign rally last night.

MailOnline’s Eirian Prosser and The Daily Mail’s Political Editor Jason Groves report Mr Johnson was unleashed as the Tory party’s secret weapon last night, answering the Prime Minister’s calls as he warned undecided voters a Labour landslide would be ‘pregnant with horrors’.

Hello and welcome to MailOnline’s live coverage as we embark on the final day of campaigning for the 2024 general election.

Britain will head to the polls in less than 24 hours as voters decide the next Parliament tasked with taking the country forward.

Last night, Rishi Sunak received a welcome boost when Boris Johnson addressed a Conservative rally in London, marking his first major return to the political frontline since his premiership.

Meanwhile, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will whizz across the nation on campaign stops in Scotland, Wales and the West Midlands where no doubt he will urge against complacency ahead expectations he is heading for a huge majority.

Follow our live coverage throughout the day as we bring you the latest news, reaction and pictures as the campaign enters its final hours.