Alert – UK general election LIVE: Rishi Sunak pledges to rewrite laws on sex and gender while Keir Starmer goes on the defence with promise to keep nuclear weapons – everything you need to know from the campaign trail

Rishi Sunak will today pledge to rewrite equality laws to define sex as biological if the Conservatives win next month’s general election.

Meanwhile, Sir Keir Starmer will pitch Labour as the ‘party of national security’ when he visits veterans in the north west later as he focuses on defence.

Elsewhere, the Liberal Democrats, SNP, Reform UK, the Greens and Plaid Cymru will be on the election trail as campaigning enters its second full week.

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