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Starmer and Sunak gear up for final day of campaign as Boris makes surprise appearance at Tory rally

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Sir Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak will make a last push for votes on the final day of the general election campaign on Wednesday after Boris Johnson made a late intervention.

The former Tory PM made a surprise appearance at Rishi Sunak’s rally at the British Army Museum in Kensington on Tuesday evening.

He told the crowd of several hundred Conservative activists that voting for Labour or backing Reform on Thursday would “achieve nothing but usher in the most left wing government since the war.”

“We must

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