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Sami Quadri

General Election 2024 LIVE: Sunak launches attack on Starmer's character as campaign gets personal

Rishi Sunak launched a personal attack on Sir Keir Starmer as he argued the Labour leader does not “deserve to decide your future”.

Launching the Welsh Tory manifesto at an event in north Wales, the Prime Minister said: “This is a man who tried to overturn the result of the Brexit referendum, who twice urged everyone to make Jeremy Corbyn prime minister and who ran on a series of pledges to be Labour leader that he cynically then abandoned.

“My friends, because he has such a past he doesn’t deserve to decide your future.”

Mr Sunak also urged voters not to allow Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour Party to “waltz into office”.

It comes after Mr Sunak faced tough questions over the alleged Tory election betting scandal on a BBC Question Time Leaders’ Special on Thursday evening.

He said Tory figures who are found to have broken betting rules "should face the full force of the law" and will be "booted out" of the party.

With just two weeks until polling day, a string of people with links to the Conservative Party, including two MP candidates and Tory HQ’s director of campaigns are caught up in allegations about gambling on the timing of the July 4 contest.Follow the latest updates from the general election campaign below.

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