Good evening. Alex here to take you through all the latest from today. Rishi Sunak has played down warnings that Labour will win a “super-majority” following comments by one of his Cabinet colleagues.
Elsewhere, Lucy Letby, the former neonatal nurse who was convicted of the murder and attempted murder of a number of babies last year, is being retried on one charge at Manchester Crown Court. Labour will not win a super-majority, insists Sunak Grant Shapps, the Defence Secretary, this morning warned voters “you don’t want to have somebody receive a super-majority ” as he warned Sir Keir Starmer could be given carte blanche to do what he wanted by voters on July 4 . But asked about Mr Shapps’s remarks on the Tory election battle bus , the Prime Minister said: “The poll that matters is the one on July 4 .
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