The best quotes from the fifth week of Britain’s election campaign

Love’s Labour’s lost

“The truth is, the public aren’t convinced either main party deserve to win this election outright. They’re peddling two sets of fantasies, and both, as majority governments, pose a risk it would be unwise for the country to take.”

Tony Blair, who led Labour for 15 years, urges voters to deny the party a majority

Love’s Tory’s also lost

“I’m telling [Tory voters] to vote for what they believe in and what the Conservative Party has stood for all my life…What I think that means in practical terms is they either vote for defrocked Conservative candidates…or they vote for Lib Dems.”

Lord Heseltine, a former Tory deputy prime minister, backs the opposition

Stoked tensions

“My house is a fortress, my office is a fortress. I’ve got panic buttons in my house, I carry one in my pocket.”

Ruth Smeeth, a Labour MP, on the impact of anti-Semitism. Stoke Sentinel

Voting up a storm

“There were millions of people who thought their ‘one little vote’ didn’t mean shit, and now Trump is the president of America and we are leaving the EU . So your vote really does count.”

Stormzy, a rapper, urges his fans to register ahead of the November 26th deadline

Are you local?

“As you know, only the Scottish National Party can beat the Tories here in East Dunbartonshire.”

John Nicolson, an SNP candidate, forgets during a hustings that he is in fact standing in Ochil and South Perthshire

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