Boris Johnson Makes Surprise Late Move to Avert Tory Wipeout
- Repeats Tory attacks, warns of Labour ‘sledgehammer majority’
- Starmer: Johnson proves the Tories are ‘chaotic and divided’
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Boris Johnson unexpectedly dropped in on the UK election campaign, urging Conservative voters to deny Labour a landslide victory in a last throw of the dice by Rishi Sunak’s Tories to try to prevent huge losses that are expected in Thursday’s vote.
“We cannot just sit back as a Labour government prepares to use a sledgehammer majority to destroy so much of what we have achieved,” the former premier said in an unscheduled speech in central London on Tuesday night, his first public appearance of the election campaign.