Election diary: Starmer to face questions from voters in LBC phone-ins

Sir Keir Starmer will start the day with a grilling from voters live on air as he takes part in the first of two special election phone-ins on LBC with Nick Ferrari. Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, is up on Wednesday.

The Labour leader will then head to the South East to visit a small business, where he will face further questions from broadcasters.

For the Tories, Sir Mark Spencer, the farming minister, will be pushing the party’s latest attack line on rural taxes on the morning media round.

Jonathan Reynolds, the shadow business secretary, and Layla Moran, the Lib Dems’ foreign affairs spokeswoman, are out to bat for their respective parties, while Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, is on ITV’s Good Morning Britain.

Meanwhile, Sir Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, is on the campaign trail in Hampshire and south London.

And in a big moment for Labour’s campaign north of the border, Anas Sarwar, the party’s Scottish leader, will launch his general election manifesto.