Matt Frei: ’Again right here – ten days into the overall election marketing campaign, it was a day of battle buses, with Labour, Conservatives and Reform all launching theirs.
Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer selected reverse ends of the nation to set out their opposing visions for jobs and progress. The Tory occasion might really feel it’s had a greater week than Labour given the distractions of the now resolved controversy over whether or not veteran MP Diane Abbott can stand.’