The beaming Prime Minister played toy soldier as he sat behind the wheel of an armoured vehicle with Simon Jupp, Tory MP for East Devon, on the campaign trail on Thursday.
Rishi Sunak looked to be having the time of his life during a whistle-stop tour of the southwest of England while Sir Keir Starmer battled with a civil war breaking out in his own camp.
After hosting a Q&A session, Sir Keir took a group selfie with dozens of student nurses and trainee medics - but appeared to be snubbed by a baby who hilariously turned down a photo opportunity by blocking the camera with his hand. Read More Diane defies Keir: Furious Abbott tells huge crowd she WILL stand to be an MP again despite 'Labour party wanting to exclude her' as Starmer farce deepens with leader dodging claims she was 'bullied' The Labour row deepened tonight as a defiant Ms Abbott vowed to stay on as the MP for Hackney North for 'as long as it is possible' - and accused Labour of wanting to 'exclude' her from Parliament.
The situation descended into confusion again hours later when she posted on social media that she was 'dismayed' by 'reports' she would not be allowed to stand.
'I have been selected by my local party members, many of whom are here today, but the national party is insisting that I be banned.' She said she was not given a reason for the ban, adding: 'They just want me excluded from parliament. 'People thought you couldn't elect a black woman to parliament because it had never been done before. But local people went out, campaigned, knocked on doors and made me Britain's first black woman member of parliament.
He sat at a long table with the pub's committee and drank a pint of lemonade from a traditional beer mug.In the corner of the small pub room otherwise filled with Prime Minister, his team, and the pack of travelling photographers and journalists, two French tourists watched the scene with bemusement.
In Drewsteignton in central Devon, Rishi Sunak met with a group of people who had taken over community ownership of a village pub
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