Boris Johnson is hoping to secure a solid majority in Parliament to have his Brexit deal pass through the Commons and come into effect ahead of the new withdrawal deadline of January 31. Polls over the past month have shown the Conservatives ahead of other parties in general election surveys but former independent MEP Steven Woolfe warned the Prime Minister will commit the same “mistake” of his predecessor. Speaking to talkRADIO, Mr Woolfe said: “It’s not about Nigel, it’s about the same mistakes the Conservatives have made in 2017.

“They believed that the Ukip vote would flow to Theresa May – they are making the exact same mistake again.”

He continued: “It’s summed up by a particular conversation I had in a Stockport working man’s club where plumbers and electricians.

“One of the electricians said do me, ‘I can’t stand Jeremy Corbyn. He’s nasty, he doesn’t like the military but because the Conservative Party hasn’t given us the Brexit we voted for or wanted, I’m willing to vote for Corbyn to punish the rich south because Corbyn will punish the rich Remainers.’

“It’s a punishment vote.”

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Jeremy Corbyn announced at the Labour electoral campaign launch the party will target the super-rich benefitting exploiting a “rigged system” to benefit over the rest of society.

In his speech, the Opposition leader said: “The Tories throw everything at us because they know we’re not afraid to take them on.

“So we’re going after the tax dodgers. We’re going after the dodgy landlords. We’re going after the bad bosses. We’re going after the big polluters. Because we know whose side we’re on.

“And the big question of this election is: whose side are you on? Are you on the side of the tax dodgers, who are taking us all for a ride? People who think it’s OK to rip people off and hide their money in tax havens so they can have a new superyacht.”

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He added: “Are you on the side of the children with special educational needs who aren’t getting the support they deserve because of Tory and Lib Dem government cuts?

“Whose side are you on? The dodgy landlords like the Duke of Westminster, Britain’s youngest billionaire, who tried to evict whole blocks of families to make way for luxury apartments? Or the millions of tenants in Britain who struggle to pay their rent each month?

“Whose side are you on? The bad bosses like Mike Ashley, the billionaire who won’t pay his staff properly and is running Newcastle United into the ground? Or his exploited workforce like the woman who was reportedly forced to give birth in a warehouse toilet because she was terrified of missing her shift?”

Boris Johnson, the latest party leader to launch their election campaign, insisted returning a Conservative majority will allow him to deliver on his pledge to end the withdrawal negotiations and refocus efforts on key issues of concern to the whole country like the NHS and housing. 

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The Prime Minister renewed his commitment to putting an extra 20,000 Police officers on the streets to tackle a growing number of crimes across the country as he also unveiled the “biggest programme of NHS investment in a generation.”

The health service is expected to receive an extra £20.5billion by 2023-2024 however much of the extra funding had been agreed under Theresa May – and would represent a minimal increase compared to funding put into the NHS in the past.

Speaking in Birmingham, Mr Johnson attacked MPs as he told supporters: “We have a Parliament that is paralysed, blocked…this Parliament refused to get Brexit done and that is bad for our democracy because we asked the people of this country if they wanted to stay in the EU.

“We told them time and again we would honour their decision. We told them whatever they voted for we would put it into effect.

“The whole Brexit debate is holding us all back, the uncertainty and delay are bad for the country. We need an election and a new Parliament because we can’t go on like this.”

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