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Rishi Sunak uses TV debate to try to avert Tory electoral meltdown

Nottingham/London | Rishi Sunak has made a pugnacious last-ditch bid to avert electoral disaster for the Conservatives in next week’s general election, repeatedly urging voters in a television debate not to “surrender” the UK to Labour.

With new opinion polls pointing to a huge Labour majority, the prime minister came out fighting on Wednesday evening (Thursday AEST), insisting that Sir Keir Starmer would raise taxes, allow welfare spending to spiral and lose control of the country’s borders.

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