Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn are to embark on a final frantic 24 hours of campaigning as both teams insist the election remains closely fought and that polls giving the Conservatives a lead could be wrong.

Both Labour and the Conservatives have branded Thursday’s vote the “most important in a generation” as the two sides have vastly different plans for Brexit and spending on public services.

The prime minister was set to crisscross the country from Yorkshire to the Midlands, Wales and London on Wednesday, sending out his core message that the Conservatives need only another 12 seats to win a majority.

Meanwhile, Corbyn will begin his day in Scotland and will visit at least five key seats in a whistlestop tour across England, calling for those who are undecided to “vote for hope in this election”.

The Conservatives are leading by anywhere between six and 15 points according to the polls, which could mean anything from a comfortable majority for Johnson to a hung parliament.

A detailed constituency-by-constituency poll published on Tuesday night predicted a Johnson majority, but much reduced compared with its previous set of results two weeks ago.

Although the YouGov MRP poll put the Conservatives unchanged on 43% and Labour just two points up on 34%, when mapped on to all the UK’s seats that resulted in the notional Tory majority falling from 68 to 28 as his party’s seat count falls by 20 to 339, while Labour’s improved by the same amount to 231.

The survey is based on a large sample of more than 100,000 interviews conducted over the previous six days, but given the margin of error, a hung parliament cannot be ruled out.

Johnson spent Tuesday in Staffordshire attempting to recover from a disastrous previous day, when he refused to look at a photo of a sick boy lying on the floor of a hospital in Leeds and his advisers then wrongly briefed that an aide had been punched. Read more

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