UK election latest: ‘Don’t wake up to five more years of the Tories,’ Labour warns voters

Parties ramp up personal attacks as election campaign enters final days

Labour leader Keir Starmer poses for a photo with Maahwish Mirza, the party’s candidate for Mid Bedfordshire, at Hitchin Town Football Club in Hertfordshire yesterday. Photo: Reuters.

Nicholas Cecil
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Britain’s Labour Party has targeted Rishi Sunak with a new ad campaign, while the Conservatives warned people not to “surrender” their vote.

As the election campaign entered its final days, Keir Starmer’s party put out an image of the British prime minister in bed with the message: “Don’t wake up to five more years of the Tories.”