With Rishi Sunak behind in the polls he may have decided now is the time to deploy his secret weapon.
The Prime Minister’s wife Akshata Murty has been pictured visiting a care home in North Yorkshire while he campaigns in the south west meeting apprentices at a train depot and a broadband firm.
It comes as the campaign literally stepped up a gear in Wales where Sir Ed Davey swapped his paddleboard for a bicycle, while Labour’s Angela Rayner headed to Stansted to direct planes after police dropped an investigation into her living arrangements.
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