No way is Britain’s general election a done deal. Polls disguise huge uncertainty

Keir Starmer and Baroness Lawrence meet south London residents at the Lilian Baylis Technology School as the UK marks Windrush Day on 22 June. Photograph: Labour Party

General elections should be an intensive debate about the country’s future, as well as a reckoning for the record of any incumbent government.

At stake is how to make Britain’s economy stronger, rebuild our public services, expand opportunity and exercise power and influence in the world.