Election campaign day 21: The Tories press the panic button

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has warned Labour could be on course for a “supermajority” as he urged voters not to hand Sir Keir Starmer a “blank cheque” along with the keys to No 10.

Here are the key moments from day 21 of the General Election campaign:

DO panic, Mr Mainwaring

After three weeks of relentlessly bad polls, it appears that someone in the Tory high command has decided that the moment has come to hit the panic button.

The Defence Secretary was in full reverse-Corporal Jones mode when he appeared on Times Radio, warning it would be “very bad news” for the country if Labour was