Rishi Sunak visits Morrisons supermarket on Oxfordshire campaign trail

Rishi Sunak has paid an early morning visit to an Oxfordshire Morrisons supermarket on the election campaign trail as he downplayed the current polls which are predicting a near Labour landslide.

He visited the store in Carterton on Tuesday morning following an earlier visit to an Ocado packing plant in Bedfordshire - as part of a final push for votes in the last two days of the campaign leading up to the General Election.

Carterton is near Witney where Lord David Cameron and the Tories won with a 15,200 majority in 2019 - but the polls are not predicting such a successful election for the Conservatives.

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Mr Sunak has insisted predictions of a Tory defeat are “not going to stop me” after the likelihood of his return to Downing Street was put at less than “lightning striking twice in the same place” by a polling expert.

Asked during a BBC Breakfast interview whether he accepted the analysis by elections guru Professor Sir John Curtice, the Prime Minister said: “That’s his view.

“That’s not going to stop me from working as hard as I can over these final few days to talk to as many people as possible about the choice,” Mr Sunak said, ahead of visiting a distribution company in Banbury.

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“And I was up at 4am talking to workers at a distribution facility. I’m here talking to you. I’ll be out till the last moment of this campaign because I think it’s a really important choice for the country.”

In a last-ditch attempt to rally Conservative voters, the Tory leader will claim in a speech later on Tuesday that just 130,000 voters could prevent a Labour “supermajority”.

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He denied that his switch from talking about his policy plans to warnings about a landslide for Sir Keir Starmer was the language of defeat.

“No, I’m very much still talking to people about our plan,” he said.

Mr Sunak also defended the Tory campaign, despite it having failed to narrow the opinion poll gap with Labour.

Rishi Sunak in Morrisons in Carterton (Image: Jonathan Brady/PA Newswire) Asked if he had got the campaign wrong, after it was hit by debacles including his early D-Day departure and the gambling row, Mr Sunak said: “No, actually. Everywhere I’ve been going, people are waking up to the dangers of what a Labour government would mean for them, particularly when it comes to taxes.”

He said that under the Tories things are “undeniably” better than they were a few years ago.

“When it comes to the things that we want to do, people can see that we have turned a corner,” he said.

Meanwhile, Sir Keir said a big Labour majority would be “better for the country”.

The Labour leader will hammer home his get-out-the-vote message on a whistle-stop campaign tour to Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire on Tuesday.