Rishi Sunak kicks off his campaign for the General Election as he addresses a crowd in Derbyshire. The Prime Minister urges people to remember 'he was there for them' during the pandemic, as July 4th approaches.
Follow all the latest election developments on the. T Nigel Farage 's ambitions of becoming an MP were wrecked by Rishi Sunak 's bold snap election gambit, it was claimed today.
After the news, Richard Tice vowed to make the looming battle 'the immigration election' as he played down the impact. Rumours are swirling about a Nigel Farage comeback today as Reform prepares to launch its election push But he only said he would 'think about' his own plans overnight, suggesting Mr Sunak's decision to go early had 'quite a lot to do with me' - so he did not have time to gain momentum in a campaign.
The Office for National Statistics also revised up the previous year to 764,000 - increasing the already eye-watering record high. Some 1.22million people are estimated to have arrived in the UK in 2023 , while 532,000 are likely to have left . This is compared with 1.26 million and 493,000 respectively in 2022.
Home Secretary James Cleverly said: 'The latest migration statistics show a 10 per cent fall in net migration last year, with visa applications down 25 per cent so far in 2024. 'I will do my bit to help in the campaign, but it is not the right time for me to go any further than that. Lee Anderson, the former Tory deputy chairman, is the only current Reform UK MP following his defection from the Conservatives.
He said Mr Tice 'has the moral courage not to vacate either when the going gets tough, or when it might suit him'. Mr Tice is currently leader of Reform, but Mr Farage founded the party and has been mulling a comeback for months. 'He was scared. He'd heard rumours - true or not, he'd heard rumours - that I was going to go into the frontline political fray, and if he gave me a six-month run against the worst most insincere Conservative prime minister in history, against the most boring house party guest as leader of the Labour party … I think Reform was a very big factor in this decision.'
As his suit became drenched, and with protesters playing the New Labour anthem of 'Things Can Only Get Better' in the background, Mr Sunak pointed to inflation being 'back to normal' and insisted he was 'stopping the boats'. The PM joked he is 'drier' than yesterday and had 'brought an umbrella' as he gave interviews from Derbyshire this morning after shocking the country - and his own MPs - by pulling the trigger on a July 4 contest.
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