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One million flyers... and Labour campaign’s off to a flying start

TEARS Tot cries as pic is taken in Crewe yesterday

CHEERS LABOUR’S election bandwagon got off to “a flying start” yesterday with more than a million leaflets delivered across the UK.

Thousands of activists turned out on a huge day of campaigning by the party.

And they were joined by key members of the Shadow Cabinet including leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Mr Corbyn, in a speech in Crewe during a tour which also took in Warrington and north-west Manchester, said: “This election is not a foregone conclusion.

Labour’s campaigning is off to a flying start.

“On the first Saturday of the election we’re using our membership strength to put thousands of people on the streets,

THERESA MAY yesterday refused to rule out tax increases after the election.

Asked at an event in Dudley, West Mids, to rule out rises, she would only refer to the past Tory record on taxation.

She said the Conservative Party “always has been, is, and will continue to be” a party that believes in lower taxes.

Mrs May also refused to guarantee the “triple lock” on

IN POLL POSITION knocking on doors and handing out leaflets to take our message direct to voters. Labour will challenge the rigged economy to ensure investment and opportunity for the many, not the few.”

Mr Corbyn’s deputy Tom Watson hit the campaign trail in West Yorkshire, where he was joined in Batley by Emmerdale actor John Middleton and MP Tracy Brabin, who has taken over the constituency of tragic Jo Cox.

Since the election was announced, Labour has raised £800,000 in donations and thousands of members have joined.

The party will be building on the success of Sadiq Khan’s London Mayoral campaign by deploying a whole new range of tools including targeted digital advertising.

state pensions. She claimed pensioners had become £1,250 better off under Tories, while Labour governments had offered smaller increases.

Her answer came after reports said she would abandon a 2015 manifesto pledge not to increase income tax, National Insurance or VAT.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said yesterday he would keep the “triple lock”.