Rishi Sunak will mock Nigel Farage’s goal of becoming the opposition to Sir Keir Starmer as he urges undecided voters to back the Conservatives and stop a Labour “super majority”.
The prime minister will turn his fire on the Reform leader on Monday after Farage used the biggest rally of the campaign to attack “slippery Sunak” and say that Sir Keir Starmer offered only “a change of middle management”.
In a speech acknowledging that Starmer is heading for victory, Sunak will warn disaffected Conservative voters that “unchecked Labour government would be a disaster from which it would take decades to recover”.
It came as:
• Labour vowed to scrap a rule allowing those stealing goods worth under £200 to escape punishment.
• Lord Harris of