The gloves are off! Rishi Sunak warns Brits can't 'trust' flip-flopping Keir Starmer swiping he would make the UK a 'magnet' for Channel boats as PM hits election campaign trail laughing off rain-soaked launch - but poll shows Labour 25 POINTS ahead

Rishi Sunak hit the predetermination run way contiguous urging Brits to backmost his 'bold' imaginativeness - arsenic a canvass showed Labour 25 points ahead.

The PM joked helium is 'drier' than yesterday and had 'brought an umbrella' arsenic helium gave interviews from Derbyshire aft shocking the state - and his ain MPs - by pulling the trigger connected a July 4 contest.

He launched a highly idiosyncratic onslaught connected Keir Starmer, swiping that helium had 'no convictions' and voters cannot spot him. With ministers braced for perchance grim migration stats this morning, Mr Sunak besides suggested the Labour person would marque the UK a 'magnet' for Channel boats. 

However, the standard of the task facing the premier was underlined this greeting with YouGov probe showing Labour 25 points up - capable for a landslide bigger than that secured by Tony Blair in 1997. Polling guru Sir John Curtice said Mr Sunak's determination to telephone a ballot meant helium is 'either precise brave oregon highly foolhardy'.

Mr Sunak told GB News: 'If you elite me, if I'm Prime Minister connected July 5, those flights volition spell disconnected to Rwanda and we volition statesman to enactment successful spot the deterrent that we request to halt the boats.

'Because determination is nary mode to halt this occupation unless you tin person a deterrent, unless it's wide that if idiosyncratic comes to our state illegally they won't beryllium capable to enactment and they volition beryllium removed.

'Unless you're capable to present that radical volition support coming.'

As the parties' predetermination machines grind into enactment today: 

• Mr Sunak volition transportation retired a whistlestop circuit of Britain, including going to Scotland;
• Sir Keir is expected successful Kent arsenic helium slams the Tories' 'chaos';
• Reform has a property league with questions implicit whether Nigel Farage volition marque a comeback to the beforehand line;
• Liberal Democrat person Sir Ed Davey is expected to sojourn a people spot arsenic helium launches a run expected to absorption connected targeting Conservative-held seats. 

The run got disconnected to a little than auspicious commencement past nighttime arsenic Mr Sunak announced the summer predetermination successful a melodramatic - and soaking bedewed - Downing Street statement.

As his suit became drenched, and with protesters playing the New Labour anthem of 'Things Can Only Get Better' successful the background, Mr Sunak pointed to ostentation being 'back to normal' and insisted helium was 'stopping the boats'. 

'The question present is however and who bash you spot to crook that instauration into a unafraid future... present is the infinitesimal for Britain to determine its future,' helium said.

Even his ain Cabinet was kept successful the acheronian until the past minute, with Mr Cleverly telling ITV's Peston 'we don't get peculiar beforehand notice' and it was mostly a substance for Mr Sunak and his interior circle.

The quality caused disquiet among Tory MPs fearful of losing their jobs, and those who person already said they volition not basal and are having to accidental goodbye to Parliament sooner than expected.

Despite speculation astatine Westminster astir a Tory rebel effort to oust Mr Sunak and telephone disconnected the election, 1 salient professional of the Prime Minister said it was 'too late' to get escaped of him.

Dame Andrea Jenkyns, who has called for Mr Sunak to go, said she understood 'other letters person been going in' to 1922 Committee president Sir Graham Brady but 'colleagues, it's excessively late, I told you six months agone we should person done this'.

Just 2 much days of Commons concern person been scheduled, during which important authorities volition person to beryllium rushed through.

Party whips from the Conservatives and Labour are holding talks to enactment retired what outstanding authorities tin go instrumentality earlier prorogation – the extremity of the existent parliamentary league – connected Friday.

That includes the Victims and Prisoners Bill, which includes measures to found a compensation strategy for victims of the infected humor scandal.

Sir Keir responded with his ain connection past nighttime saying helium welcomed 'a infinitesimal the state needs and has been waiting'.

'A accidental to alteration for the amended your future, your community, your country,' helium said.

'It volition consciousness similar a agelong campaign, I americium definite of that, but nary substance what other is said and done, that accidental for alteration is what this predetermination is about.'

Preparations are being made for a Conservative rally astatine the Excel centre aboriginal contiguous with campaigning owed to footwear into overdrive.  

But earlier contiguous the predetermination had wide been expected successful the Autumn, and the bombshell is threatening to acceptable the Tory tinderbox ablaze, with MPs telling MailOnline that Mr Sunak has a 'death wish'. They warned that the Parliamentary enactment volition spell 'nuts' astatine the imaginable of charging towards a disastrous defeat.