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Saffron Otter

Labour MP candidate re-enacts iconic Love Actually scene in campaign video

The campaign trail is well and truly underway with less than three weeks until Brits take to the polls in the next General Election .

While party leaders have been scrutinised on live TV this week, MP candidates are resorting to alternative methods to get their message out and win over voters.

Labour's Dr Rosena Allin-Khan, who is standing for re-election, has re-enacted the iconic scene in Love Actually where Mark confesses his love to newly married Juliet at her doorstep.

While her husband Peter is in the other room, the 'best man' plays romantic music holding up placards to secretly declare his desire.

But now the Tooting hopeful has made a spin off of the key scene for this winter election as she presents Labour policies to a Conservative supporter.

The Labour candidate spots the Conservative poster in the household's window (Twitter)

Sharing the video to Twitter, the former MP, who was elected in 2016, is captured knocking on the door of a large Victorian house which has a 'Conservative' poster in the window.

She marches up to their doorstep and before a man dressed in a Christmas jumper opens the door, Dr Allin-Khan plays a clip of the Prime Minister speaking about his hobbies and interests.

A female from the other room shouts "Who is it?" to which he replies "It's the Tories" as ordered to by the doctor.

Taking on the role played by Andrew Lincoln in the film, she then shares handwritten placards with the messages: 'With any luck, next year I'll be your MP, and our country won't be run by these muppets' - where she mocks vomiting at photos of top-hatted Jacob Rees-Mogg among others.

The A&E doctor goes on to reveal her own experiences before showing him a range of Labour policies.

The video posted yesterday afternoon was captioned with: "The choice at this election..." and has so far been retweeted 6.4k times, with 20.4k likes, but the 1.2k comments come from divided opinions.

One said: "An advert that doesn't lie, pretend it's something else, or patronise. Brilliant" and another saw the lighter side to the video, saying: "An absolute beauty of a video Thank you for giving me something to smile at in this otherwise awful awful election".

However hundreds of others replied to the video critiquing Labour's 'dreamland' manifesto.

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