Bruised by Rochdale, party is racing to fill up to 100 seats but is confident of no skeletons in closets
For Rishi Sunak, one of the advantages of calling a summer election was the idea of catching Labour off-guard.
When the prime minister announced he was going to the country on 4 July, he caught almost everyone – Labour and Tory – by surprise. Labour had just relaxed its restrictions on staff members taking holidays over the coming weeks as the prospect of an election before the autumn appeared to fade.
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