Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer will kick off their general election campaigns today, six weeks before the country goes to the polls on July 4.

The Prime Minister will tour broadcast studios early this morning before embarking on a two-day whistlestop trip taking in all four nations of the UK.

Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, will head to the south east England in a sign he wants to make inroads in Tory areas.

In London, Reform UK’s leader Richard Tice will stage a press conference setting out his party’s plans.

The party’s most high-profile figure, honorary president Nigel Farage, said he was thinking about whether to return to frontline politics by standing in the July 4 election.

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey is expected to visit one of his party’s target seats as he launches a campaign expected to focus on ousting Conservative MPs from Tory strongholds. 

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