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Rishi Sunak makes final plea to Express readers: 'Do not wave the white flag to socialism'

2024-07-02 00:00:00.0 每日快报-政治原网页

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (Image: Getty)

Rishi Sunak today tells Express readers “your vote counts, your voice counts so please use it wisely”.

In the final 24 hours before polls open, the Prime Minister warned backing Reform ultimately means “waving the white flag to socialism”.

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“But I say let’s pull together and prove them wrong.

“Let’s send a signal that Britain is a country where people do want their taxes cut, they want immigration reduced and they want pensioners who have worked hard all their life to be looked after.

“That’s what is at stake in this election. They are the things I believe in, that’s what I think Express readers believe in.

“Your vote counts, your voice counts so please use it wisely.”

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Two new opinion polls put Labour maintaining a large lead over the Conservatives in second and Reform in third place.

Savanta puts Labour Labour on 39%, the Conservatives 24% and Reform on 13% while JL Partners had the same figures for the two major parties but Reform on 16%.

Mr Sunak insisted recent history is “littered with pollsters, commentators and people thinking they know the result but I don’t take people for granted”.

The PM acknowledged that Nigel Farage has been “compelling” but said backing Reform would lead to a Labour government that “punishes” people who have worked hard and done the right thing.

He said Thursday’s vote is “not a free hit without consequences” and the pain will be felt “in your pay cheque, your pension with your car tax”.

“So I would say to people, take a proper look, what price are you willing to pay?”

“A vote for anyone else, whether that’s Reform, Labour, Lib Dems or anyone is ultimately a vote for Labour to punish you as someone who has worked hard, done the decent thing and put a bit aside,” he added.

“What I would also say is voting Reform, I’m afraid, waving the white flag to socialism.

“I’ll be direct. Nigel Farage may be compelling to people but that won’t help you when Keir Starmer has taxed your family to the hilt, has means tested away your winter fuel allowance and given an amnesty to illegal migrants who Angela Rayner is right now allocating against your will to your local town and community.

“So my message is vote Conservative, stick with us and don’t surrender to socialism.”

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Speaking to the Express for the second time during the campaign, Mr Sunak issued a personal message to readers.

He said: “Thank you to Express readers and the British people because I know it’s been a difficult few years. We have taken two massive blows as a country with covid and Ukraine and they have taken a toll.

“But we have come through it together, Britain has proved to be incredibly resilient and we are rebounding strongly.

“Fastest growing economy, surging forward in the industries of the future, standing tall on the world stage.

“So those people who wrote Britain off were wrong and they are wrong again to write off conservative views, which I I know are also the views of Express readers.

“I won’t give up fighting but I also need Express readers to make their voices count this Thursday as well.”

Mr Sunak said he understood people’s frustration “with me, with the party”.

“I know things have not been easy,” he said. “We haven’t got everything perfectly right, I get that.

But he urged readers to “think about the future” and have the confidence in him to deliver on the issues that matter.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said yesterday (TUES) that he wants a big majority so he can deliver the “difficult” changes he wants to make.

But Mr Sunak warned if Labour is given a “blank cheque” by voters “they won’t be able to get it back”.

He said an unchecked Labour government with a super majority will be “very damaging” for people’s finances and said the party will “rig the system” to entrench themselves in power through votes for 16-year-olds.

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Mr Sunak said: “He doesn’t believe on a point of principle that people at 16 are adults and should have all the rights and responsibilities that come with that.

“It’s only the voting age that he’s thinking of changing because he thinks it will help him.

“So you have to ask yourself, what’s next? Is it votes for EU migrants? Is it votes for prisoners? God knows.”

Mr Sunak told how his grandparents came to the UK and within two generations he has the “enormous privilege” of being Prime Minister.

“I love our country for what it has done for my family and I’m enormously grateful for what it’s done for me and my family.

“I don’t think my story would be possible pretty much anywhere else in the world.

“That’s why I will work day and night to try and make a difference to people in the way that this country made a difference to my family.”

He added: “I don’t give up on what I believe. I’m fighting for my values, for conservative values.

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