There are just 24 hours left to save Britain from a Labour government, Rishi Sunak has warned in his final speech of the election campaign.
The Prime Minister told Conservative activists in Hampshire that Sir Keir Starmer use a “supermajority” to “rig the rules so they stay in power for a decade”.
“We have we have urgent work here, my friends, because at this point we only have a day left to save Britain from the danger of a Labour government,” he said with his parents and wife looking on.
“A Labour government that might have a super majority to hike up everyone’s taxes by thousands of pounds, to shift our politics to the Left, to make sure we do absolutely nothing to clamp down on illegal migration, to reverse the cost-saving net zero plans that we put in place, to tax the state pension for the first time in our country’s history, and to rig the rules so they stay in power for a decade.
“We need to wake people up to this danger. It is our job, it is our duty to make sure that Britain does not sleepwalk into this.”
Mr Sunak’s remarks came as four major polls predicted that Labour will win a historic majority in Thursday’s election.
The surveys by More In Common, Focaldata, YouGov and JL Partners forecast majorities of more than 200 for Sir Keir’s party – even higher than the 179-seat majority won by Sir Tony Blair in 1997.
Sir Keir, meanwhile, used his final speech of the campaign in Redditch, Worcestershire, to ask voters to back Labour so he can “change our country”.
“We’re a changed Labour Party,” he said. “We are asking for the opportunity to change our country and put our country back in the service of working people.”
The Labour leader, eyeing the widely expected move to No 10, said he was “quite pleased” to be close to power after “the least productive nine years of my life” as an opposition MP.
In Clacton, Essex, Nigel Farage led Reform UK voters in a chant of, “We want our country back” in his final campaign speech.
Sir Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, urged his supporters to “kick the Conservatives out of government”, while SNP leader John Swinney admitted that the race in Scotland was “incredibly close” and the party needed every voter to turn out to limit Labour’s gains north of the border.