Rishi Sunak says he has never finished before 6pm, and health minister Maria Caulfield has told Sky News she works 20-hour days, in an attack on Sir Keir Starmer after he said he'd continuing finishing at 6pm on Fridays to spend time with his kids if Labour won the election.
The government is 'urgently' investigating delays to postal ballots being delivered, health minister Maria Caulfield has said.It comes after postal affairs minister Kevin Hollinrake criticised Royal Mail for apparently failing to deliver some votes in time for the general election, which is due to take place on Thursday.Ms Caulfield told Sky News: 'Kevin is taking this very seriously. He's in direct contact with the Royal Mail.
I know there's extra resources going into this to try and do a sweep of all the sorting offices and make sure they're out there.'If people have only just received their postal vote, they can take it to their polling station on election day and it will still be counted.'Postal votes must arrive at counts before polls close at 10pm to be counted, but can arrive by hand if delays to their arrival make this impossible.
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