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The general election came “too soon” because Parliament was edging towards a second referendum, the architect of the “remainer alliance” said today.
In an interview with the Standard, Heidi Allen said the numbers were almost there for a People’s Vote when the Prime Minister persuaded party leaders to back an election instead.
“The numbers were getting better and better every day,” she said. “Even MPs like David Gauke who we never thought would say it were saying this [a referendum] is the only way out of it. Now we will never know.”
Ms Allen, a former Conservative MP who last month joined the Liberal Democrats, denied that she was angry or disappointed with Lib-Dem leader Jo Swinson for agreeing with Boris Johnson’s demand for a general election, saying it was a “calculation” as to whether gridlock in Parliament would have led to a referendum or instead to a disastrous no-deal Brexit.
“You can argue we were nearly there, getting the necessary MPs over the line for a second referendum,” she said.
“But others argued we were running out of time and would the EU run out of patience.”
General Election 2019 – In pictures
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson, visits the Royal Welsh Showground, in Llanelwedd, Builth Wells
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn tries his hand at bricklaying during a visit to the West Nottinghamshire College Construction Centre, in Ashfield
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson collects his papers after speaking during an event to launch the 2019 Conservative Party general election manifesto
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn holds some flowers as he meets supporters during a visit to Thurrock in Essex whilst on the General Election campaign trail
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson on a cherry picker during a visit to an eco home building site whilst on the General Election campaign trail in Sheffield
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon gives her party’s candidate for North East Fife Stephen Gethins a haircut, during a visit to Craig Boyd Hairdressing in Leven, Fife
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn takes pictures with supporters during a visit to the Renishaw Miners Welfare, in Renishaw, Sheffield, whilst on the General Election campaign trai
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon during a visit to Craig Boyd Hairdressing in Leven, Fife, whilst on the General Election campaign trail
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage visits Seaham during the Brexit Party general election campaign tour
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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon dons a cape during a photocall for the charity Chest Heart Stroke Scotland after FMQs at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson with Health Secretary Matt Hancock during a visit to Bassetlaw District General Hospital in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, while on the campaign trail for the General Election
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Labour Manifesto launch
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Nigel Farage visits the Brook pie and mash shop in Dagenham
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to David Wilson Homes in Bedford while on the campaign trail for the General Election
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn during a visit to The Oatcake Boat owned by Kay Mundy, in Stoke-on-Trent, while on the General Election campaign trai
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn decorates a plate during a visit to a pottery manufacturer in Stoke-on-Trent while on the General Election campaign trail.
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson wears a construction helmet reading “Prime Minister” during a visit to Wilton Engineering Services, part of a General Election campaign trail stop in Middlesbrough
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson runs to his campaign bus after a general election campaign visit to Wilton Engineering Services, in Middlesbrough
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Liberal Democrats leader Jo Swinson during a visit to Trumpington Park Primary School, in Cambridge, whilst campaigning for the General Electio
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Jeremy Corbyn reacts during the election head-to-head debate live on TV
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds part of the door of a washing machine during a visit to Ebac electrical appliances manufacturer during a General Election campaign trail stop
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Leader of the Brexit Party Nigel Farage talks to a during a walkabout with PPC candidate Mike Greene as part of a general election campaign event in Peterborough
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid during a visit to Nanaksar Gurdwara in Coventry while on the campaign trail ahead of the General Election
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Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon reacts during a general election campaign visit to Perthshire Preserves in Stirling
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Michael Gove and Andrew Gwynne during an interview at tonight’s debate in the ‘Spin Room’ ahead of general election
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a ‘Made In Britain’ sign he took off the packaging of a washing machine during a visit to Ebac electrical appliances manufacturer during a General Election campaign trail stop
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Leader of the Brexit Party Nigel Farage holds a pint during general election campaign event in Peterborough
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid during a visit to Nanaksar Gurdwara in Coventry while on the campaign trail ahead of the General Election
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to Jimmy Egan’s Boxing Academy at Wythenshawe, while on the campaign trail ahead of the General Election
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson eats a candy stick which reads “Back Boris” during a General Election campaign trail stop at Coronation Candy in Blackpool,
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Britain’s Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson makes a pizza with chef Leonardo Mastrofilippo at Cafe Amisha during her general election campaign tour in London
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage looks out from a window on the Kestrel crabbing boat in Grimsby fish dock during General Election campaigning
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to West Monkton CEVC Primary School in Bathpool, Taunton
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Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon (R) holds a baby as she campaigns with SNP candidate Catriona MacDonald
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Jo Swinson at Total Boxer
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson during a visit to the Gurdwara Singh Sabha Temple in Glasgow
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a gift card with an image mocking him, during a General Election campaign trail stop in Wells
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Nigel Farage holds a fish during a stop at the Grimsby Seafood Village during General Election campaigning
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson steers a tug boat during a General Election campaign stop in the port of Bristol,
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Nigel Farage takes a mouthful of homemade cheesecake during a stop at the Grimsby Seafood Village during General Election campaigning
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds Rosie the rabbit during a visit to a primary school in Taunton
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage wears boxing gloves as he poses with British boxer Dereck Chisora, during his visit to Gator ABC Boxing Club in Ilford
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn tries a scone in Bentley, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, during General Election campaigning
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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan practices with a sparing partner Tyler Brindle as he visits a community boxing gym in London
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson, drinks from a pint watched by Defence Minister Johnny Mercer (right) as he meets with military veterans at the Lych Gate Tavern in Wolverhampton
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson talks with a local woman pushing a wheelbarrow
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage attends a general election campaign event in Sedgefield
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon during a visit to The Shed, a Climate Challenge community project at North Edinburgh Arts
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn during a visit to the Heart of Scotstoun Community Centre in Glasgow
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Britain’ Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a baby as he meets with supporters at the Lych Gate Tavern in Wolverhampton
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Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon visits Blosson Tree children’s nursery
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn laughs during a visit to the Scrap Creative Reuse Arts Project, Sunny Bank Mills, The Spinning Mill in Leeds
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Liberal Democrats leader Jo Swinson eats a marshmallow during a visit to Free Rangers Nursery while on the General Election campaign trail in Midsomer Norton
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson helps with the clean up at an opticians as he visits Matlock in Sheffield
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn unveils the Labour battle bus while on the General Election campaign trail in Liverpool
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Brexit party leader Nigel Farage eats fish and chips from Whitehaven Fish Bar Takeaway Restaurant during a walkabout after attending an election campaign even
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Leader of the Liberal Democrats Jo Swinson attends an election campaign event in Golders Green
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson moves a pallet of chocolate biscuits in a -25 degree celsius storage unit during a general election campaign visit to the headquarters of Iceland Foods in Deeside, northeast Wales
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson tries his hand at making an Antony Gormley inspired clay figure during an arts class whilst visiting the George Spencer Academy in Nottingham, while on the General Election campaign trail around the country
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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon eats a cupcake during a visit to a bakery whilst on the election campaign trail in Alloa
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson helps quality control staff during a general election campaign visit to the Tayto Castle crisp factory in County Armagh, Northern Ireland
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage during a visit to Bolsover Boxing Club near Chesterfield in Derbyshire
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the campaign trail on Thursday
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Britain’s opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn delivers a speech during their election campaign event on Brexit in Harlow
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Boris Johnson at Downing Street
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Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie (right) and party General Election campaign chairman Alex Cole-Hamilton on the General Election campaign trail in Blackhall, Edinburgh
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Carrie Symonds shares a picture of Dilyn the dog ready for the General Election
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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon holds a guitar as she visits Dalkeith Community Hub with Owen Thompson, SNP election candidate for Midlothian
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Boris Johnson speaks to staff at the East Midlands and East of England Genomic Laboratory Hub, in Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson during a visit to Sigma Pharmaceuticals in North Watford
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street on route to Buckingham Palace ahead of an audience with Queen Elizabeth II and the formal start of the General Election
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage addresses supporters at the Washington Central Hotel in Workington
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage stops for a pint of beer with the party’s candidate for Ashfield Martin Daubney (right) during a campaigning stop in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
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Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice poses as he wears boxing gloves at a general election campaign event at Bolsover Boxing Club in Chesterfield
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Jeremy Corbyn kisses Emily Thornbury’s hand in Battersea
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson takes a selfie as she appears on BBCC’s The Andrew Marr Show
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Jeremy Corbyn prepares to launch the Labour Party’s election campaign in south London
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon helps to serve soup during a visit to the Lochside Community Centre in Dumfries, to meet voters and activists while on the General Election campaign.
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Nigel Farage at the Brexit Party’s election campaign launch
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Boris Johnson looks at old photographs of London with students at Abbots Green Primary Academy in Bury St Edmunds
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Nigel Farage on The Andrew Marr Show
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has a coffee in Cafe Gelato, Rutherglen
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Jacob Rees-Mogg arrives at Downing Street in London
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Jeremy Corbyn meeting the party faithful during a rally while on the campaign trail in Swindon
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Larry the cat walks outside Downing Street
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Boris Johnson as he leaves 10 Downing Street
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Nigel Farage gives the thumbs up
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Jeremy Corbyn takes a selfie while on the General Election campaign trail in Milton Keynes
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Government advisor Dominic Cummings walks along Whitehall on his way to Downing Street wearing a bulldog clip
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson, visits the Royal Welsh Showground, in Llanelwedd, Builth Wells
whilst on the General Election campaign trail
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn tries his hand at bricklaying during a visit to the West Nottinghamshire College Construction Centre, in Ashfield
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson collects his papers after speaking during an event to launch the 2019 Conservative Party general election manifesto
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn holds some flowers as he meets supporters during a visit to Thurrock in Essex whilst on the General Election campaign trail
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson on a cherry picker during a visit to an eco home building site whilst on the General Election campaign trail in Sheffield
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon gives her party’s candidate for North East Fife Stephen Gethins a haircut, during a visit to Craig Boyd Hairdressing in Leven, Fife
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn takes pictures with supporters during a visit to the Renishaw Miners Welfare, in Renishaw, Sheffield, whilst on the General Election campaign trai
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon during a visit to Craig Boyd Hairdressing in Leven, Fife, whilst on the General Election campaign trail
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage visits Seaham during the Brexit Party general election campaign tour
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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon dons a cape during a photocall for the charity Chest Heart Stroke Scotland after FMQs at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson with Health Secretary Matt Hancock during a visit to Bassetlaw District General Hospital in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, while on the campaign trail for the General Election
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Labour Manifesto launch
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Nigel Farage visits the Brook pie and mash shop in Dagenham
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to David Wilson Homes in Bedford while on the campaign trail for the General Election
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn during a visit to The Oatcake Boat owned by Kay Mundy, in Stoke-on-Trent, while on the General Election campaign trai
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn decorates a plate during a visit to a pottery manufacturer in Stoke-on-Trent while on the General Election campaign trail.
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson wears a construction helmet reading “Prime Minister” during a visit to Wilton Engineering Services, part of a General Election campaign trail stop in Middlesbrough
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson runs to his campaign bus after a general election campaign visit to Wilton Engineering Services, in Middlesbrough
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Liberal Democrats leader Jo Swinson during a visit to Trumpington Park Primary School, in Cambridge, whilst campaigning for the General Electio
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Jeremy Corbyn reacts during the election head-to-head debate live on TV
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds part of the door of a washing machine during a visit to Ebac electrical appliances manufacturer during a General Election campaign trail stop
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Leader of the Brexit Party Nigel Farage talks to a during a walkabout with PPC candidate Mike Greene as part of a general election campaign event in Peterborough
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid during a visit to Nanaksar Gurdwara in Coventry while on the campaign trail ahead of the General Election
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Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon reacts during a general election campaign visit to Perthshire Preserves in Stirling
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Michael Gove and Andrew Gwynne during an interview at tonight’s debate in the ‘Spin Room’ ahead of general election
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a ‘Made In Britain’ sign he took off the packaging of a washing machine during a visit to Ebac electrical appliances manufacturer during a General Election campaign trail stop
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Leader of the Brexit Party Nigel Farage holds a pint during general election campaign event in Peterborough
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid during a visit to Nanaksar Gurdwara in Coventry while on the campaign trail ahead of the General Election
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to Jimmy Egan’s Boxing Academy at Wythenshawe, while on the campaign trail ahead of the General Election
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson eats a candy stick which reads “Back Boris” during a General Election campaign trail stop at Coronation Candy in Blackpool,
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Britain’s Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson makes a pizza with chef Leonardo Mastrofilippo at Cafe Amisha during her general election campaign tour in London
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage looks out from a window on the Kestrel crabbing boat in Grimsby fish dock during General Election campaigning
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson during a visit to West Monkton CEVC Primary School in Bathpool, Taunton
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Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon (R) holds a baby as she campaigns with SNP candidate Catriona MacDonald
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Jo Swinson at Total Boxer
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson during a visit to the Gurdwara Singh Sabha Temple in Glasgow
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a gift card with an image mocking him, during a General Election campaign trail stop in Wells
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Nigel Farage holds a fish during a stop at the Grimsby Seafood Village during General Election campaigning
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson steers a tug boat during a General Election campaign stop in the port of Bristol,
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Nigel Farage takes a mouthful of homemade cheesecake during a stop at the Grimsby Seafood Village during General Election campaigning
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds Rosie the rabbit during a visit to a primary school in Taunton
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage wears boxing gloves as he poses with British boxer Dereck Chisora, during his visit to Gator ABC Boxing Club in Ilford
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn tries a scone in Bentley, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, during General Election campaigning
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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan practices with a sparing partner Tyler Brindle as he visits a community boxing gym in London
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson, drinks from a pint watched by Defence Minister Johnny Mercer (right) as he meets with military veterans at the Lych Gate Tavern in Wolverhampton
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson talks with a local woman pushing a wheelbarrow
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage attends a general election campaign event in Sedgefield
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon during a visit to The Shed, a Climate Challenge community project at North Edinburgh Arts
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Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn during a visit to the Heart of Scotstoun Community Centre in Glasgow
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Britain’ Prime Minister Boris Johnson holds a baby as he meets with supporters at the Lych Gate Tavern in Wolverhampton
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Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon visits Blosson Tree children’s nursery
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn laughs during a visit to the Scrap Creative Reuse Arts Project, Sunny Bank Mills, The Spinning Mill in Leeds
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Liberal Democrats leader Jo Swinson eats a marshmallow during a visit to Free Rangers Nursery while on the General Election campaign trail in Midsomer Norton
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson helps with the clean up at an opticians as he visits Matlock in Sheffield
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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn unveils the Labour battle bus while on the General Election campaign trail in Liverpool
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Brexit party leader Nigel Farage eats fish and chips from Whitehaven Fish Bar Takeaway Restaurant during a walkabout after attending an election campaign even
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Leader of the Liberal Democrats Jo Swinson attends an election campaign event in Golders Green
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson moves a pallet of chocolate biscuits in a -25 degree celsius storage unit during a general election campaign visit to the headquarters of Iceland Foods in Deeside, northeast Wales
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson tries his hand at making an Antony Gormley inspired clay figure during an arts class whilst visiting the George Spencer Academy in Nottingham, while on the General Election campaign trail around the country
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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon eats a cupcake during a visit to a bakery whilst on the election campaign trail in Alloa
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson helps quality control staff during a general election campaign visit to the Tayto Castle crisp factory in County Armagh, Northern Ireland
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage during a visit to Bolsover Boxing Club near Chesterfield in Derbyshire
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the campaign trail on Thursday
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Britain’s opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn delivers a speech during their election campaign event on Brexit in Harlow
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Boris Johnson at Downing Street
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Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie (right) and party General Election campaign chairman Alex Cole-Hamilton on the General Election campaign trail in Blackhall, Edinburgh
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Carrie Symonds shares a picture of Dilyn the dog ready for the General Election
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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon holds a guitar as she visits Dalkeith Community Hub with Owen Thompson, SNP election candidate for Midlothian
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Boris Johnson speaks to staff at the East Midlands and East of England Genomic Laboratory Hub, in Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson during a visit to Sigma Pharmaceuticals in North Watford
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Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street on route to Buckingham Palace ahead of an audience with Queen Elizabeth II and the formal start of the General Election
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage addresses supporters at the Washington Central Hotel in Workington
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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage stops for a pint of beer with the party’s candidate for Ashfield Martin Daubney (right) during a campaigning stop in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
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Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice poses as he wears boxing gloves at a general election campaign event at Bolsover Boxing Club in Chesterfield
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Jeremy Corbyn kisses Emily Thornbury’s hand in Battersea
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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson takes a selfie as she appears on BBCC’s The Andrew Marr Show
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Jeremy Corbyn prepares to launch the Labour Party’s election campaign in south London
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon helps to serve soup during a visit to the Lochside Community Centre in Dumfries, to meet voters and activists while on the General Election campaign.
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Nigel Farage at the Brexit Party’s election campaign launch
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Boris Johnson looks at old photographs of London with students at Abbots Green Primary Academy in Bury St Edmunds
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Nigel Farage on The Andrew Marr Show
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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has a coffee in Cafe Gelato, Rutherglen
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Jacob Rees-Mogg arrives at Downing Street in London
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Jeremy Corbyn meeting the party faithful during a rally while on the campaign trail in Swindon
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Larry the cat walks outside Downing Street
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Boris Johnson as he leaves 10 Downing Street
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Nigel Farage gives the thumbs up
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Jeremy Corbyn takes a selfie while on the General Election campaign trail in Milton Keynes
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Government advisor Dominic Cummings walks along Whitehall on his way to Downing Street wearing a bulldog clip
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She will today tour three London battleground seats in her new role in charge of the Unite to Remain campaign which is appealing to people to vote tactically in the hope of forcing a referendum.
Ms Allen, who co-founded Change UK before switching to the Lib Dems, claimed Brexit should transcend other issues. “Anybody that tells you this election is about Waspi pensions or NHS number of nurses, it just isn’t at all.
“This is the election that came too soon, before Brexit was resolved, and this is literally all we have left in our armoury. A trade deal in less than a year is just not possible, so the threat of no deal is very much alive,” she said.
Under deals brokered by Ms Allen, the Greens will give the Lib Dems a clear run in 43 constituencies, including Wimbledon, Chelsea & Fulham and Bermondsey & Old Southwark. The Lib Dems have stepped aside in Dulwich & West Norwood and in Brighton Pavilion to boost the Greens.
