"We have now had 14 years of chaos, of division and failure. The choice tomorrow is to bring that to an end, to turn the page and start to rebuild with Labour," Starmer continues.

He says that if Conservatives will win tomorrow, the next five years "will be the same" and that "they evidenced it in the campaign" by starting it with former PM David Cameron:

"They borrowed Liz Truss' programme in the manifesto with unfunded tax cuts, and last night they wheeled out Boris Johnson. When I say chaos, division and failure, they just exhibited it in this campaign."

Starmer warns his party members that there are still undecided voters and in some constituencies, "it is a few hundred votes that might make change and people need to be convinced for change."

Coming to an end of his speech, Starmer says "change only happens if you vote for it", repeating it several times.

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Sir Keir Starmer says he last spoke to the Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gething to set up a meeting to "do everything possible" to save steel making at the Tata Steel plant in Port Talbot.

In contrast, he adds Rishi Sunak told former first minister Mark Drakeford he was too busy to take his call.

He says it shows the difference a Labour government could make in Wales and a Labour win would mean two governments working together.

Wales's Labour First Minister Vaughan Gething is introducing Sir Keir Starmer at a campaign event in Carmarthenshire.

We'll be bringing you key lines from the Labour leader shortly.

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On the last day of the election campaign trail, former prime minister Gordon Brown has encouraged people to not back Nigel Farage and accused the Conservative Party of "pandering" to Reform UK.

The former Labour leader urged voters to "reject the Farage version of Britain and to get our real country back" in an article for the Guardian.

He cited issues including the rule of law, immigration and welfare spending.

Among the policies he points to as contributing to poverty is the two-child benefit cap, which neither the Conservatives or Labour have committed to reversing.

Pointing to the recent successes of the National Rally in France, Brown says he believes values of a Labour government could help prevent the rise of the populist nationalism.

"A Labour government can heighten cooperation across borders to resolve international crises from pollution to pandemics, from poverty to migration, from financial instability to international terrorism."

Why is Mel Stride effectively conceding?published at 09:06 3 July

09:06 3 July

Nick Eardley
Travelling on the Tory campaign bus

The strategy for the Conservatives over the past few days has been to try and persuade voters who've backed his party before - but who might not this time.

Rishi Sunak has spent the past couple of days campaigning in seats where the Tories are normally safe - or had a chunky majority in 2019.

On the eve of polls, few Tories are holding out any hope of winning. So the strategy now appears to be damage limitation; to try and keep as many seats as possible.

That's why Mel Stride went as far as to say he was expecting a significant majority. Could that be enough to persuade some voters who don’t want a powerful Labour government to back the Conservatives at the last minute? Tory HQ will hope so.

They might also hope it encourages the very thing Labour are desperate to avoid - complacency among Labour voters.

But be in no doubt; a cabinet minister effectively conceding 24 hours from polls opening is a significant and unusual moment.

I'm just having a big bowl of porridge and a huge mug of coffee to get ready for the Newscast All-Dayer.

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Throughout the day we'll be joined by friends of the podcast, representatives of the parties and special guests.

First up is David Dimbleby, the expert on marathon broadcasts. Hopefully he can give me some tips on when to eat and go to the loo.

This big chunk of airtime means we can talk about the polices you care about, rather than just the pure politics.

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McFadden is then asked about the result of the first round of the French elections and the prospect of France electing a far-right government. How will that affect the small boats policy - how would a Labour government deal with that?

Mishal points out that the man who would be the next French prime minister, Jordan Bardella of Marine Le Pen's National Rally, has said France will refuse to cooperate with the UK on migration.

McFadden says that the Labour government will work with whoever is elected by the people in France.

Mishal asks is McFadden agrees that this is a serious challenge to what Labour hopes to do domestically ?

McFadden says Labour will have many serious challenges, "on this front and many others", he says and adds that is proud of the campaign he has run.

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Pat McFadden is challenged if he is proud of using the £4,800 figure, and he says "Look, I am proud of our campaign."

"I think it does correspond to what we are all about," he adds. He also blames Conservative manifesto for being "another instalment of the disaster that the people are paying the price for," mentioning the Liz Truss budget, saying that Tories will be repeating the mistakes which have already driven the rates up.

Mishal puts it to him that Labour's biggest message is change, and asks when will British people feel their circumstances have changed?

McFadden says it depends on the promises in their manifesto, some will be quicker to implement, the others such as more teachers at schools, economic stability and shorter NHS waiting lists will take more time.

"Change will only come if people vote for it," he adds.

Mishal starts by asking Pat McFadden if he is proud of the campaign in total.

McFadden is asked about the claim that homeowners will pay £4,800 more on their mortgages if the Conservatives win the election. BBC Verify says it is misleading.

He replies that Labour have a costed manifesto and took criticism for that.

Mishal says this is a manifesto which says 'we will restore integrity and honesty' and asks if it stands up to where Labour wants to be?

Mishal adds that £4,800 is not an annual figure, it is a cumulative figure, it is theoretical, why repeat this figure?

McFadden replies that when comes to responsibility, there is a huge gulf between the two manifestos.

It's not standard practice to concede defeat on election evepublished at 08:22 3 July

08:22 3 July

Henry Zeffman
Chief political correspondent

This is not normal.

It is not standard practice for a cabinet minister to effectively concede defeat the day before the general election, as Mel Stride just did.

A concession and then some. Stride’s claim that a Labour majority would be bigger than that of the national government’s of 1931 means he is claiming Labour could win a majority of 492 in a 650-seat parliament. That seems fanciful, even on some of the most extreme polling.

So why did Stride say it? It’s been clear for some time that the Conservatives have decided their best hope of averting a vast Labour majority tomorrow relies on playing up the prospects of a vast Labour majority.

But Stride’s comments today go beyond the “supermajority” rhetoric of the past few weeks.

It’s unlikely this is what Rishi Sunak hoped his closing argument would be when he called the election six weeks ago.

Rhun Ap Iorwerth, leader of Plaid Cymru, says that their target for tomorrow’s election is “to maximise the Welsh voice at Westminster.”

“We know where the election is heading. Sir Keir Starmer is likely to become the next PM, but we need to hold Labour to account after 14 damaging Conservative years,” he tells BBC 4’s Today programme.

When reminded that a Welsh Labour MP could end up in the cabinet if Labour forms the government after the election and asked why a Plaid Cymru MP would be more of a voice, Ap Iorwerth says that the Welsh Labour MPs in the shadow cabinet “meant absolutely nothing in terms of making sure that Wales is represented”. He also adds that it shows Labour’s attitude towards Wales.

“Labour on the UK level are ignoring our aspirations,” he adds.

Rishi Sunak was asked several times by journalists - including me - if the election was over. He seemed a bit frustrated and told us he was fighting for every vote.

"The poll that matters is the one on Thursday," he told me.

But privately, many in his party have thought the game was over for some time.

And Cabinet Minister Mel Stride has effectively conceded the same on the Today programme this morning -telling the programme it was likely there would now be a massive Labour majority.

We've just been hearing from Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride who was speaking on the Today programme.

Addressing Suella Braverman's comments, he says: "I totally accept where the polls are at the moment means that tomorrow is likely to see the largest Labour landslide majority - the largest majority that this country has ever seen."

"Much bigger than 1997," he says.

He adds what matters now is what kind of opposition we have and the ability to scrutinise government.

"I have accepted that where the polls are at the moment...that we are therefore tomorrow highly likely to be in a situation where [Labour has] the largest majority that any party has ever achieved," he concedes.

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has told the BBC that "Boris [Johnson] and Rishi [Sunak] are the ‘Bellingham and Kane’ of this election."

Speaking in Central London after a Conservative Party rally at which the former PM spoke, Gove said: "Just when everyone is thinking that it was all over, you have two members of a great conservative team knocking it out of the park."

He described Johnson as giving a "full-throated, energetic and passionate" defence of the Conservatives’ record in government.

Gove didn’t clarify who was Bellingham and who was Kane in his description of the two leaders.

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Let's have a look at the papers this morning and some are leading with Boris Johnson's appearance at a Conservative campaign rally.

"Johnson: It's not too late to stop Labour" headlines the Daily Telegraph. The paper writes the former prime minister warned a huge majority would deliver the most left-wing government since World War Two.

Meanwhile, the Daily Mirror pictures Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer on the front page. He tells the paper he wants to give Britain hope and restore its pride after "14 years of hurt" under the Conservatives.

The prime minister's antisemitism adviser has warned that attacks on Sir Keir Starmer over his desire to keep Friday nights free for his family were "dangerous".

Sir Keir Starmer, whose wife Victoria is Jewish, has said he would want to avoid work after 18:00 on a Friday, although he acknowledged this would not always be possible.

The Tories have suggested this would make him a "part-time" prime minister, but Starmer has dismissed the criticism as "laughably ridiculous".

Lord Mann, a Labour peer who was appointed as the government's independent antisemitism adviser by Theresa May, said: "The attack on Keir Starmer for asserting his right to family time on a Friday night, as he has done for many, many years, is so dangerous.

"So insidious from those aware of why he chooses to be with his family specifically on Friday evenings."

Friday night Shabbat dinners are important in the Jewish faith and the Labour leader has described attempting to keep Friday nights free for a form of Shabbat dinner with his family.

Starmer told reporters at a campaign event: "Her dad’s side of the family is Jewish, as people will appreciate, and we use that for family prayers – not every Friday, but not infrequently."

Boris Johnson’s decision to campaign for Rishi Sunak yesterday – and Sunak’s decision to ask him to – displayed at least some temporary reconciliation between Conservative factions as they fight their common enemy: a Labour government.

Yes, the détente was limited, with Sunak and Johnson never appearing on stage together and Johnson barely speaking about Sunak. But it was still an increasingly rare display of Conservative Party unity.

Suella Braverman, Sunak’s former home secretary and a leading figure on the Conservative right, is taking a somewhat different approach.

Her article in the Telegraph is fairly extraordinary. “It’s over and we need to prepare for the reality and frustration of opposition,” she writes, adding that the Conservative vote is “evaporating from both left and right”.

Suggesting that Conservative attacks on Reform UK are hypocritical, she predicts a post-election “fight for the soul of the Conservative Party”.

Sunak told Laura Kuenssberg last Sunday that he still expected to be prime minister at the end of this week.

But some of his colleagues are clearly gearing up for a world in which he is not.

The former Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, has declared "it's over" for the Conservatives.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday, she says, "One needs to read the writing on the wall: it's over and we need to prepare for the reality and frustration of opposition".

Braverman, who was sacked by Rishi Sunak, says her former boss was right to call out a Reform UK activist for racism but his claim to be angry looked "less powerful" when the Conservatives took money from a donor who made offensive comments about Labour's Diane Abbott.

The Tory candidate has been critical of Sunak before, but the timing of her intervention shortly before polls open is notable.

The "Reform phenomenon", she writes, is entirely predictable and avoidable - "and entirely our own fault".

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Johnson said he thought and hoped the British people "show more sense" on polling day and warned the audience not to sit back as "a Labour government prepares to use a sledgehammer majority to destroy so much of what we have achieved".

The Former Prime Minister told the crowd: "Five years ago you helped to send Jeremy Corbyn and his then disciple, Keir Starmer into orbit where they belong."

Referring to comments made about the war in Ukraine by the Reform UK Leader, Nigel Farage, Johnson said "don't let the Putinistas deliver the Corbynistas". He also said Reform UK could "achieve nothing at this election except for usher in the most left-wing Labour government since the war".

Shortly after, the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak took to the stage, thanked Boris Johnson for his support and asked the crowd "isn't it great to have our Conservative family united, my friends?"

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Let’s go back to last night when former prime minister Boris Johnson made a surprise appearance at a Conservative Party rally in Central London.

Welcomed onto stage to chants of "Boris, Boris, Boris", the former Prime Minister thanked the audience for joining him at the late night event which he said was 'way past Sir Keir Starmer's bedtime'.

It's the former Prime Minister’s first physical appearance on the campaign trail, after sending support to Conservative candidates through social media videos.

Johnson said he was "glad" when Rishi Sunak asked him to help with the campaign and said "of course I couldn't say no".

He went on to say that the one reason he was at the rally was because, like the audience "we love our country" and said "whatever our differences, they are utterly trivial by comparison with the disaster we could face if the so called opinion polls are right".