UK general election live: Starmer and Sunak present competing visions for jobs and growth

David Graham

12 months ago

UK general election live: Starmer and Sunak present competing visions for jobs and growth – BBC News

Summary

Labour unveiled their party’s battle bus in London today, and vowed to create wealth across the UK
The party says to boost employment it would combine job centres with career services and increase support for people with long-term illness
Elsewhere, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak went to north-east England as his party pledges to give 30 towns across the UK £20m if re-elected
Tory minister Andrew Griffith earlier defended the party’s record on levelling-up, which he says will help to restore “pride” in towns
SNP leader John Swinney is in a key battleground seat in Scotland’s north-east, where he’s campaigning alongside his party’s Westminster leader Stephen Flynn
The Lib Dems are also pledging today that they would mandate the Premier League to show ten football matches per season on free-to-air television
The founder of the Workers Party of Britain, George Galloway, said at the party’s national launch that they’d field hundreds of candidates