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Elsewhere, Reform UK leader Richard Tice has been campaigning in Boston and Skegness.
It is seat he has decided to fight in this election having previously said he would contest Hartlepool. Let's take you down to the south now, where Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey is on a campaign visit to Chichester, one of the coastal cities in West Sussex that his party is hoping to win in the region.
Tice says the party have not been caught out by the unexpected election announcement, telling supporters he "won a few bets, a couple of pints of Guinness" on there being a summer poll. During his visit, he was asked about the significance of Michael Gove stepping down ahead of the general election. He says it was a sign that the “Conservatives are giving up” and that they were in a “mess”.
He says Rishi Sunak has "bottled it" by calling an early election because the Tories are "sinking" in the polls while Reform gain support. “The Conservatives have governed the country so badly,” he adds, saying “we are much more ambitious than some of the other parties” and that politics in the country is “broken” and “needs to be changed”.
Tice says the party will put immigration, law and order, NHS waiting lists and "making work pay" at the centre of its general election campaign.
Reform are "here for the long term", he says at the end of the speech, adding the party will "make [Britain] great again".
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