Sky News has been tracking locations visited by party leaders in the first week of the general election campaign to decipher what their choices tell us about the parties' election strategies.
travelled from london, spoke in the commons while awaiting a covid test, got a train home after testing positive, was arrested and charged and pleaded guilty to culpable and reckless conduct. so we are now talking about what happens next. is a key indicator of what happens next in this by election how well labour s messages actually cutting through in scotland at the moment? t through in scotland at the moment? i think this by election is a huge opportunity for the people of rutherglen and hamilton west to choose change, to choose a fresh start with our candidate, michael shanks, because the reality is that the former snp mp will refuse to resign, and we have had the government at westminster presiding over this huge crisis, and they are unwilling to take the necessary action, so i think they are ready to
National's promise to increase the age of retirement and likely cuts to Cullen fund contributions and state Kiwisaver payments have been seized on by Labour as evidence that National does not care about ordinary people.
majority. what have the conservatives majority. what have the conservatives been - majority. what have the l conservatives been doing majority. what have the - conservatives been doing any last few weeks in terms of clawing back some of some of their polling losses that they had seen happen in previous months? that they had seen happen in previous months? they have been electin: previous months? they have been electing rishi previous months? they have been electing rishi sunak previous months? they have been electing rishi sunak as previous months? they have been electing rishi sunak as leader - electing rishi sunak as leader instead of liz truss. it has not done the much good in the national opinion polls. labour are still streets ahead in the national opinion polls, but it is a very important check on how well labour is really doing, to look at real votes in real bad boxes. ballot boxes and they ought to be doing better than this if they are on course to win a majority. n
we need to deliver and we can only deliver with a ten year economic plan and that plan needs to be based on growth, and it need to deliver a stronger, more resilient and, of course, fairer economy. he was talking to me an hour ago. well labour is calling for borisjohnson to leave downing street immediately. shadow home secretary yvette cooper told sophie raeworth this morning that mrjohnson s time in office impacts on all those who are now hoping to take on hisjob. sadly, you ve got a catalogue of contestants to replace him who have all been defending him, for all of this time and who have been part of. jeremy hunt hasn t, as he sjust been telling me. but many of them have and they have all been voting for many of the policies that they are now arguing around and also, they have been part of 12 years of really damaging conservative government that has left us with incredibly low growth, with public services being run down and with