Theresa May today urges “patriotic” Labour supporters to abandon the party and vote Conservative for the sake of the nation’s future as she says: “Your country needs you.”

Writing in today’s Daily Telegraph, the Prime Minister asks voters to remember “in the privacy of the polling booth” that they must choose a leader with “the ability to knuckle down and get the job done” on Brexit.

She says the prospect of Jeremy Corbyn in Number 10 is “unthinkable” because: “Rarely can a candidate for high office have been so singularly ill-equipped for the task.”

Mrs May also promises to keep people “safe and secure” and to build a more prosperous country post-Brexit in which “our best days lie ahead”.