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Tom Davidson and Jacob Phillips

General Election 2024 LIVE: Starmer and Sunak give final speeches as campaigns come to a close

Sir Keir Starmer and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak have made their final pitches to voters hours before millions vote in the General Election.

The Labour leader wrapped up his campaign at a community centre in Redditch, telling activists “if you want change you have to vote for it”.

Sir Keir signed off saying: “Imagine a Britain moving forward together with a Labour government. That’s what we are fighting for, let’s continue that fight.”

The politician told reporters that being in opposition has been “the least productive nine years of my life” adding that Labour would get to work straight away.

Meanwhile The Prime Minister was joined by his parents and his wife Akshata Murty for the final stump speech of the election campaign.

Mr Sunak vowed “this underdog will fight to the final whistle” as he made the last speech of the trail at Romsey Rugby Club, north of Southampton where he grew up.

The Prime Minister urged Tory activists to continue campaigning, claiming they had “urgent work to do” to “save the UK” from a Labour government.

Labour are on track for a landslide victory and could break a series of electoral records along the way, according to the final YouGov poll projection of the campaign.

The opposition party will win a majority of 212 seats in the election tomorrow, and Sir Keir will enjoy the biggest majority for any single party since 1832 in a vote, YouGov predicts.

Sixteen of the 26 cabinet ministers still standing, including Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, will lose their seats, according to the pollster

It comes as a separate poll says that Labour is set for an upset in Islington North, where the party’s former leader Jeremy Corbyn has a 91 per cent chance of winning.

This morning a Cabinet minister admitted Labour was heading for an “extraordinary landside” victory on a scale probably never seen before in British history.Mel Stride made the remarks on Wednesday morning as another opinion poll predicted the Conservatives will be reduced to just three seats in London.

Boris Johnson made a dramatic and unexpected 11th-hour campaign appearance as he rallied Tory supporters in Chelsea on Tuesday night.

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