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Jeremy Corbyn swoops into Home Secretary’s Amber Rudd constituency tomorrow as Labour bids to pile pressure on marginal seats.

The party is on a permanent election footing and Mr Corbyn hopes to capitalise on the momentum of his surprise ballot box performance to boost support in key battlegrounds.

He begins by holding a rally in the East Sussex town that gave its name to Britain’s most famous battle - Hastings.

Ms Rudd was once tipped as a future Tory leader but at the next election she will defend a majority of just 346 in Hastings and Rye.

Mr Corbyn, who suffered a setback this week when he was forced to fire three frontbench rebels over Europe, holds a rally in the seaside seat on Labour’s first major national campaign day since the country went to the polls this month.

Thirteen other shadow cabinet ministers are being dispatched to 14 marginal seats across England and Wales in a bid to maintain the excitement that powered Labour to a better-than-expected result.

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Speaking in Hastings, Mr Corbyn will say Labour came “within a whisker” of “painting the town red”.

He will add: “Labour gained seats across the country at the last general election, in every region and nation of Britain.

“Labour is no longer just the Official Opposition, we are a government in waiting.

“It is not good enough for politicians – including your MP, the Home Secretary – to praise the police, firefighters and NHS staff when they respond to horrific incidents like the recent terrorist attacks or the Grenfell Tower fire, and then vote to make them worse off again year after year.

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“This is what happened in Parliament this week.

“Nurses in our hospitals have had a real terms pay cut of 14% under this Government and some are even having to use food banks.

“Yet the government refused to back our calls to lift the public sector pay cap and recruit more police and firefighters.

“You can’t keep our communities safe on the cheap, when you cut over 20,000 police officers, over 11,000 firefighters, and leave our hospitals in record deficit having to cut back on services.

“We have to change our economic system so that it works for the many, not just a few.”

Meanwhile, organisers of Saturday's People’s Assembly #NotOneMoreDay demonstration in London have confirmed Mr Corbyn will also address protesters in the capital.