Labour Party leader Keir Starmer Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)
Who would you rather grab a pint with, Rishi Sunak or Keir Starmer?
According to a new poll, this could be the question that ultimately decides the outcome of the General Election in six weeks time. Well, maybe.
The campaign buses of all the major political parties are continuing to rev today, with Labour and the Conservatives both in the Midlands.
While the Lib Dems will be paddleboarding. Which is one way to make some waves among voters.
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The Conservatives announced overnight another key policy pledge after Rishi Sunak’s controversial national service scheme: ‘triple lock plus.’
This would see a pensioner’s allowance rise in line with either average earnings, inflation or by 2.5% – whichever is higher.
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Pensioners are a key voting bloc for the Tories, and it seems Labour already swaying one of theirs’: business leaders.
More than 120 of them have signed an open letter endorsing Labour, stressing voters should ‘give it the chance to change the country’.
‘We are in urgent need of a new outlook to break free from the stagnation of the last decade and we hope by taking this public stand we might persuade others of that need too,’ the letter said.