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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Tim Baker

General election news - LIVE: Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn make final pledges to voters

With under 24 hours to go until the polls open in the general election, Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson are making their final speeches and stops before the new Prime Minister is elected.

Both Conservative and Labour leaders started today in the north of the England, and will work their down the country before ending their campaigns in London after polling predicted a narrow victory for the Tories.

Michael Gove countered claims from London Bridge victim Jack Merritt's father that Mr Johnson had politicised his son's death,

Labour Shadow Chancellor defended colleague Jon Ashworth, who was caught amid a leak scandal yesterday in which he said Mr Corbyn was hurting Labour's chances at the polls.​

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