UK common election LIVE: Reform UK leap above the Conservatives for first time within the polls as Nigel Farage claims he’s ‘actual’ opposition to Labour whereas Rishi Sunak insists ‘we’re solely midway by’ marketing campaign

A Tory minister has dominated out making any form of electoral pact with Reform.

Treasury minister Bim Afolami rejected options that the Conservatives ought to contemplate placing an election deal.

Requested if the Tories would contemplate a deal, he instructed Sky Information: ‘No, no. It is an election.

We’re not doing offers with anyone.

Hear as Nigel Farage units out his ambition to turn into the ‘opposition voice’ as head of the Reform occasion.

Introducing a cap on grownup social care prices by October subsequent 12 months is a part of Labour’s plan in the event that they win the election, Wes Streeting has insisted.

The pledge didn’t seem within the occasion’s manifesto when it was revealed on Thursday.

Grownup social care charging reforms – together with an £86,000 cap on the quantity anybody in England has to spend on their private care over their lifetime – had been as a result of be applied by the Conservative Authorities from October 2023 however have been delayed by two years.

Shadow well being and social care secretary Wes Streeting was requested whether or not he may make a agency dedication to bringing within the cap in October 2025.

He instructed BBC Radio 4’s Right this moment programme: ‘That is the plan, as issues stand.’

Rishi Sunak has insisted that voting for Reform UK can be ‘handing Labour a clean cheque’ as he performed down a serious opinion ballot displaying Nigel Farage’s occasion overtaking the Conservatives.

The Prime Minister emphasised that ‘we’re solely midway by this election” and the selection between the Tories and Labour will “crystallise for folks between now and polling day’.

He instructed reporters on the G7 summit in Puglia: ‘We’re solely midway by this election, so I am nonetheless preventing very laborious for each vote.

‘And what that ballot reveals is – the one ballot that issues is the one on July 4 – but when that ballot was replicated on July 4, it will be handing Labour a clean cheque to tax everybody, tax their residence, their pension, their automobile, their household, and I will be preventing very laborious to be sure that would not occur.

‘And truly, once I’ve been out and about speaking to folks, they do perceive {that a} vote for anybody who is just not a Conservative candidate is only a vote to place Keir Starmer in No 10.’

A bombshell ballot for the Instances performed by Yougov revealed final night time that Reform is polling one level forward of the Tories.

At a fiery debate final night time, Nigel Farage, head of Reform, instructed Penny Mordaunt of the Conservatives: ‘A vote for you is definitely now a vote for Labour.’

The Chief of the Home of Commons pushed Conservative claims that voting for Reform on 4 July would make it simpler for Sir Keir Starmer to turn into PM.

Simply previous to final night time’s

ITV debate, a YouGov survey for The Instances put Reform up two factors to 19 per cent, with the Conservatives unchanged on 18 per cent.

The symbolic second of Reform shifting forward of the Tories for the primary time is a shattering blow to PM Rishi Sunak with simply three weeks till the overall election.

Good morning and welcome to MailOnline’s dwell weblog overlaying every thing on the election this Friday.

We’ll convey you all the newest information and updates because the events take to the marketing campaign path across the nation, and every thing from Rishi Sunak’s go to to Italy for the G7.