Rishi Sunak has said he understands why people are hesitating to support the Conservatives
At a campaign event, he says the last few years have been difficult but the coming election is a choice for the future
His comments come after the PM and Keir Starmer were pressed about immigration, the NHS and cost of living at a Q&A hosted by the Sun
Earlier, the co-leader of the Greens was challenged on his party's pledges on climate and tax by Nick Robinson in a BBC Panorama leaders' interview
Adrian Ramsay defended the scale of his party's tax plans, calling them "fairly normal" by European standards
Also on Monday, Sunak said he was "not aware" of other Conservative candidates being looked into by the Gambling Commission and confirmed his party is carrying out its own internal inquiries - Starmer accused him of delaying the probe until after the election
Sean Seddon
Live reporter
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Image source, x/@stellacreasyA Labour candidate has urged police to "press for the strongest penalties" after her office was damaged in an early morning attack in her London constituency.
In a post on X, Stella Creasy shared pictures showing several holes and cracks on the windows and door of her office in Walthamstow.
In the same post, she said: "Message to whoever attacked my office last night. You don’t intimidate me and you don’t belong in the political process. Same as those circulating malicious and false leaflets."
Police said they believe the incident occurred between 03:00 and 03:30 BST on Sunday. They added that an "urgent investigation" is under way and called on any witnesses to come forward.
"It is entirely unacceptable for the office of one of London's prospective parliamentary candidates to be targeted in this way," said Detective Superintendent Dion Brown.
Creasy described it as an "anti-democratic" attack, adding that police are "already on their way to find you".
Image source, x/@stellacreasyThe Visual Journalism Team
BBC News
Unsure who to vote for? The BBC’s Visual Journalism team has produced a guide which offers a summary of where parties stand on issues most important to voters.
This interactive has been put together by the BBC's Visual Journalism team, the BBC's political research unit in London and BBC journalists in Belfast, Cardiff and Glasgow.
Its aim is to summarise where the parties stand on key topics to help voters make informed decisions at the ballot box.
You can see it here.
Laura Kuenssberg, Paddy O'Connell and Henry Zeffman have just recorded their discussion of today's campaign news.
The SNP's independence stance, allegations of election betting and a less-than flattering description of the Rwanda policy by a Tory candidate were all mulled over.
You can listen to the latest episode of Electioncast here.
Image source, PA MediaThe leaders of Labour and the Conservatives in Scotland have agreed immigration needs to come down during interviews with BBC Scotland's Sunday Show.
Anas Sarwar said net migration across the UK was too high, warned of a huge asylum backlog and said there was a "fundamental breakdown between our skills system and our migration system".
Douglas Ross said there was a huge problem with "record numbers" of people coming to the UK, adding: "We can do an awful lot with the powers we have here in Scotland when we don’t have a government obsessed with independence."
Ross also conceded the election campaign had been challenging for the Tory party, saying: "It has been very difficult and I'm not going to shy away from that."
Watch more from BBC Scotland's Sunday Show here.
Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper says the Conservatives are "knee-deep in scandal" after more betting claims emerged.
She says her party has called on the prime minister to intervene personally and to ensure the candidates being investigated are "suspended immediately", as well as urging him to “launch a cabinet inquiry investigation”.
Cooper says Sunak has had "ample time" to make that decision, adding: “It’s astonishing that he hasn't suspended the candidates."
Harry Farley
Political correspondent
This story has been simmering away for more than a week.
Since then, there has been a drip, drip, drip of names of people being looked into by the Gambling Commission - so far, two Conservative candidates and two senior Conservative officials, as well as a police officer.
Such are the rumours of more people being investigated that James Cleverly had to say this morning he had “no reason to believe” any ministers had placed bets on the election date.
If you want to know how senior Conservatives feel about this, you don’t have to look far.
Michael Gove told, external the Sunday Times today the story has parallels with partygate, the scandal that dogged Boris Johnson’s government for week after week.
“It looks like one rule for them and one rule for us,” he told the paper. “If these allegations are true, it’s very difficult to defend.”
As the days tick down to polling day on 4 July, this is not what the Conservatives want in people’s minds as they prepare to vote.
It's been a very quiet day on the campaign trail but Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper has been out and about in Hertfordshire.
Cooper, who is a candidate in St Albans, was greeted with cheers in nearby Harpenden as she jumped out of a bright green tractor.
"This is our chance to win the change that our country desperately needs," she told the crowd.
"Day in, day out, people are working incredibly hard, they're paying their taxes and yet they're still struggling to make ends meet."
Cooper added that the Conservatives had "driven our health and social care services into the ground" and that they had "abandoned struggling families to cope with the cost of living crisis".
At the end of her speech, she said: "Our message is clear - a vote for the Liberal Democrats is a vote for a strong local champion".
We've heard a lot about opinion polls this morning - and you can expect to hear much more between now and polling day.
The BBC keeps a close eye on all the major polls - you can view our tracker here.
Image source, PA MediaWe're hearing more on Labour's concerns about complacency ahead of the general election after spending months ahead in the polls.
Speaking to BBC's Sunday Show, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar dismissed talk of a potential "supermajority" as "nonsense", adding that "not a single vote has been cast".
His comments came after the BBC revealed the party's campaign chief Pat McFadden sent an internal memo to staff highlighting the number of undecided or uncertain voters across the UK.
Sarwar added that "every vote for Scottish Labour" would "make sure we get rid of the Tories" and put "Scotland at the heart of a Labour government".
Reacting to betting allegations surrounding the Conservative Party, former minister Sir Robert Buckland told LBC he expects "higher standards".
"I'm deeply, deeply hurt and rather angry that this has happened in the middle of a campaign that is tough enough without things like this to complicate it further," he says.
When asked whether the prime minister should suspend the people involved, Buckland says he should, and adds that if the candidates in question are elected, then the Commons whips should look into the matter after the election.
Earlier, we heard SNP leader John Swinney tell the BBC that an independent Scotland remains "an essential solution" to the problems faced by its people.
Reacting, Lord Peter Mandelson - a former minister and Labour peer - said “it’s perfectly clear that the game’s up for the SNP”, dubbing the party "structurally irrelevant" to Scottish voters.
He said Scotland will not benefit from a government that seeks to go “head to head” with Westminster and called on Scottish voters to back Labour.
Image source, PA MediaEarlier we reported that one of the home secretary's aides privately described the Rwanda policy as "crap".
Asked about the controversial scheme, former Conservative Chancellor Lord Philip Hammond told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that he is "not a big fan of the use of Rwanda" but accepted the need for a deterrence policy.
Hammond said the only way to achieve this was through “deep rooted collaboration with our European neighbours”, citing other countries which are looking at off-shore processing for asylum seekers.
He added this would have been easier if the UK was still in the EU.
Image source, LinkedInAs we reported earlier, a fourth person linked to the Conservative Party is facing allegations over bets placed on the timing of the general election.
According to the Sunday Times, which first reported the claims, the party's chief data officer Nick Mason is accused of placing dozens of bets on the timing of the general election.
A spokesperson for Nick Mason told the BBC it would not be appropriate to comment during an investigation, but he denied wrongdoing. The Gambling Commission is investigating.
Nick Mason is not a household name, but has previously stood for Parliament and has held a senior behind-the-scenes role with the Conservative Party for more than two years.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Mason has been the party's chief data officer since April 2022.
He ran to be an MP in 2015, coming third in the Jarrow constituency behind Labour and Ukip.
According to an online profile from his 2015 campaign, he has previously been a local councillor and has been "actively involved with the Conservative party since leaving university, mainly in Dorset", where he said he held a role with the local party association.
Confused by the Tory election betting allegations? Here is what this story is all about in a nutshell.
For months, Westminster was left speculating about when the general election would be held.
That decision was ultimately Rishi Sunak's to take and he gave very little away in public - and, it has been widely reported, in private too.
Discussions about when the election would take place are said to have been kept to a close circle of advisors - some government ministers only found out about the election date hours before it was announced on the steps of Downing Street on 21 May.
In recent days, we've learned that four people linked to the Tory party - as well as a police officer serving in Sunak's security detail - are being looked into over allegedly placing bets on the timing of the election. They are:
While there is much we still don't know, the central concern is whether anybody potentially used inside knowledge of the timing of the election in order to gain an unfair advantage.
The Gambling Commission, the regulator which covers the betting industry, is looking into these claims and has not published its findings yet.
For more information, you can read the timeline we published earlier.
Harry Farley
Political correspondent
Nick Mason, the Conservative Party's chief data officer, is being investigated by the Gambling Commission.
It comes after the Sunday Times claimed he had placed dozens of bets on the timing of the general election.
A spokesperson for Mason told the BBC it would not be appropriate to comment during an investigation, but he denied wrongdoing.
He was told by the Gambling Commission on Friday that he was being investigated.
Mason has now taken a leave of absence from his role with the party.
Our last bit of reaction from the panel on this morning's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg included a discussion on how the general election campaign is going.
Here's how each of them felt about the current state of affairs:
Scottish independence is one of the central pledges of the SNP - but Laura Kuenssberg took First Minister John Swinney to task over this promise.
She asked Swinney, if you don't get a majority of Scottish seats in this election, will you accept that this means it's the will of the Scottish people?
As a reminder, Swinney said during the SNP's manifesto launch earlier that the Scottish government would be "empowered" to begin negotiations for a second independence referendum if his party won a majority of Scottish seats at the election.
You can see his response below:
Earlier this morning, we heard Labour's shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson say she didn't think taxpayers would be faced with having to bail out universities facing acute budget pressures.
Lord Peter Mandelson, a key architect of New Labour; former Tory Chancellor Lord Philip Hammond; and Good Morning Britain presenter Susanna Reid shared their thoughts on Labour's education policies.
In just 60 seconds, our favourite number cruncher, Sir John Curtice, gives his take on the latest polls.
He says neither the Conservatives nor Labour are having a fruitful campaign as the latest polls put both of the major parties down by four points.
Nigel Farage's Reform UK, he notes, is now just two points behind the Tories.