General election 2024: Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda plan rubbished as Starmer speaks out on Diane Abbott MP row

Ms Abbott today (29 May) claimed that the Labour Party will ban her from standing as a candidate at the upcoming general election on 4 July.

Mr Streeting was asked about today’s events during an interview with Kay Burley on Sky News.

Mr Streeting said: “At this general election, we want to welcome millions of people who have seen the chaos and incompetence of the Conservative Party and are looking for change with Labour.”

In the new report, MPs said that the Home Office is unwilling to say how many people it is planning to relocate to Rwanda, and how it would do this.

Wes Streeting is pitching his NHS pledge to cut waiting lists in the West Midlands.

He says voters have two options: whether to “turn the page” and allow for a “changed new Labour government” or to “hand the matches back to the arsonists to finish the job”.

Beth Winter has said although she welcomes the party’ decision to restore Diane Abbott’s whip, the veteran MP has been treated in a “vindictive, factional and cruel” way.

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The MP for Cynon Valley is urging Keir Starmer to let Ms Abbott decide whether she wants to stand at the election.

Tory MP Victoria Atkins has called the Labour party to condemn junior doctors strike during the election campaign.

Taking to social media, she said the wave of strikes from June 27 to July 2 coincides with “Labour’s heath day” and it was politically motivated.

She added: “This Conservative government has taken the tough decisions to keep public spending down to bear down on inflation, which is now back to normal.

“Labour would be in the hands of their union paymasters – meaning more spending and higher taxes.”

He writes: “The promise of a tax cut for pensioners is the latest policy aimed squarely at the over-65s. It is a small tax cut, worth possibly £300 a year by the end of the next parliament, and it is complicated – a pledge to raise the income-tax personal allowance for pensioners so that anyone relying on a state pension alone won’t be dragged into paying tax.”

After a difficult start to the general election Rishi Sunak has finally come ahead of Keir Starmer in one crucial area in the polls.

The Conservatives are currently trailing Labour by between 12 and 27 points according to diffierent opinion polls published over the last 24 hours but one poll puts them ahead.

Our political editor David Maddox has more:

Nigel Farage has hinted at a deal with Rishi Sunak to make him stop campaigning against the Conservatives, Archie Mitchell reports.

The Reform UK honorary president has highlighted “huge favours” he did for the Tories in the past and asked “what are they going to do back for me?”

Asked about whether he would accept a peerage to go away, Mr Farage told The Sun’s Never Mind the Ballots he had turned down “all that rubbish” in the past.

But he said: “I got rid of Mrs May with the Brexit Party. I stood aside for Boris to help him win a massive majority.

“What are they going to do back for me? I’m not asking them for anything other I’ve done them some huge favours over the years as a party.

“Give me something back. We might have a conversation.”

Several unions are demanding Keir Starmer to provide a clear update on the future of Diane Abbott.

ASLEF, TSSA, Unite, NUM, CWU and FBU have posted a letter allowing the veteran MP to stand at the general election.