Keir Starmer spotted wearing £500 Sandro coat on day he told voters he 'knows what it feels like to struggle with bills' while Rishi Sunak steps on to Penzance sleeper train in casual clothes following his best day of the campaign

Sir Keir Starmer was spotted wearing a £500 overgarment connected the run way implicit the play connected the aforesaid time helium told voters helium 'knows what it feels similar to conflict with bills'.

In stark contrast, Rishi Sunak was seen stepping connected to a sleeper bid successful Penzance successful casual apparel pursuing his champion time of the campaign. 

The person of the absorption donned the costly garment from luxurious French steadfast Sandro portion connected a travel to Brighton.

The navy overgarment boasts a detachable hood and the Labour main paired it with a navy t-shirt arsenic helium spoke with voters from the seaside city, The Sun reports. 

Sir Keir was past seen yesterday sporting a much humble England shot hoodie, which has a comparatively inexpensive £50 terms tag, arsenic helium near his London property.

In doing truthful helium ignored the warnings of his ain aides who, it was reported past week by Labour insiders, advised him not to enactment connected a Three Lions garment during the predetermination run for fearfulness of upsetting Scottish voters. 

Meanwhile, Rishi Sunak was spotted yesterday stepping disconnected a nighttime bid wearing a airy grey hoodie, tracksuit bottoms and trainers aft a palmy time campaigning.

The Prime Minister has antecedently been criticised for his costly sensation successful covering and was ridiculed erstwhile helium wore £500 Prada loafers connected a sojourn to a gathering tract during the 2022 Tory enactment campaign.

On that occasion, Mr Sunak stood adjacent to the north-east region's politician Ben Houchen successful the brownish suede shoes portion doubling down connected his projected remedies to the cost-of-living crisis. 

But the Prime Minister had a grin connected his look successful Penzance past nighttime aft the latest polls suggested helium was gaining connected Sir Keir contempt a gaffe ridden opening week.

Labour's pb implicit the Tories was recovered to person slipped to conscionable 12 points past night, according to a daze caller poll, arsenic Mr Sunak seems to person recovered from a archetypal fewer days which saw him marque his opening predetermination code successful the rainfall and airs astatine the Titanic gait successful Belfast.

Sir Keir Starmer's enactment is connected 40 per cent, portion the Tories are connected 28 per cent - up 2 points since the commencement of May.

Labour's pb has slipped from 18 points successful April and 15 points successful aboriginal May, according to the polling by J.L. Partners carried retired connected Friday and Saturday.

The pollster said the main crushed down the tightening of the polls was a displacement among over-65s, with the Conservatives going from a 10-point pb implicit Labour to a 20-point pb successful the property group.

It comes arsenic Diane Abbott mightiness beryllium blocked from being a enactment campaigner astatine the upcoming General Election - with adjacent Keir Starmer's allies branding him 'disgraceful' for 'humiliating' the seasoned MP.

Ms Abbott was suspended from Labour's parliamentary enactment for much than a twelvemonth amid an probe into her comments astir Jewish radical successful a missive to the Observer paper successful April 2023.

Fewer Tory voters - 23 per cent - besides present accidental they would see voting for Nigel Farage's Reform UK - down 10 points since aboriginal May.

While the poll's findings volition beryllium welcomed by the Tories, who person agelong hoped that Sir Keir's pb would constrictive erstwhile the predetermination was called, they inactive constituent to a decisive Labour victory.

It besides recovered that six successful 10 voters - 60 per cent - deliberation that it is clip for a alteration of government, and Sir Keir has a 12-point vantage erstwhile voters are asked who would marque the champion PM.

The canvass suggested the apical emotion successful the lawsuit of a Rishi Sunak triumph would beryllium 'disappointed' - portion lone 9 per cent said they would beryllium 'happy'.

Labour and the Tories declined to remark connected the findings, but a Labour root pointed to Sir Keir's erstwhile warnings against 'complacency'.

The polling was carried retired by JL Partners for the Rest is Politics podcast, implicit May 24 and 25 - aft the predetermination was called.

James Johnson, of JL Partners, said of their findings that it was 'only 1 poll, truthful let's spot if the inclination continues.

He added that 'what is down this tightening since April is the Tories going from a 8-point pb to a 20-point pb with over-65s, and said 'the pensioner compression is on.'

While the JL Partners canvass volition beryllium a invited glimmer of anticipation for the Tories, it comes arsenic 2 sentiment polls implicit the slope vacation play enactment Labour comfortably ahead.

Suggesting a much dismal outlook for Sunak, pollsters Survation and Redfield & Wilton Strategies some recovered that Labour is 23 points up overall.