Let battle commence: how the parties are shaping up for December's election
How ready are the Tories, Labour, Lib Dems, SNP, Brexit party and Greens for the snap poll?All the day’s politics news – livePreparednessThe Conservatives have been obviously preparing for a general election since the summer. The signs were all there, even while Boris Johnson was insisting he did not want to go to the polls, with the appointment of Isaac Levido, a protege of Australian election strategist Lynton Crosby, as campaigns director. Two women from a thinktank background, Munira Mirza and Rachel Wolf, have been writing the party’s manifesto for months. MPs have been hitting the phones canvassing, and special advisers are expecting to be assigned roles in Conservative party headquarters and on the ...
