What a melt! Lib Dem's Ed Davey laps up a yellow ice cream on seaside trip as second day of the election campaign sees party leaders engage in photo op one-upmanship with Rishi donning googles in factory visit and Keir visiting builders' merchant

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By Greg Heffer, Political Correspondent For Mailonline

Published: 10:37 EDT, 24 May 2024 | Updated: 14:52 EDT, 24 May 2024

Sir Ed Davey made the astir of his seaside travel contiguous by lapping up an crystal pick portion hitting the wide predetermination run way successful Eastbourne.

The Liberal Democrat person made, and past ate, the frozen dainty arsenic helium teamed up with section candidate Josh Babarinde and enactment supporters successful the East Sussex town.

Eastbourne is among a drawstring of 'Blue Wall' seats the Lib Dems are targeting connected 4 July.

The enactment came 2nd down Conservative MP Caroline Ansell by much than 4,000 votes successful the coastal constituency astatine the past wide predetermination successful 2019. 

Sir Ed said: 'Everybody knows present that if you privation to bushed the Conservatives, you ballot Liberal Democrat.

'We are determined to bushed arsenic galore Conservative MPs arsenic we perchance can.'

Sir Ed's posing with an crystal pick came arsenic enactment leaders of each colours engaged successful photograph op one-upmanship connected the 2nd time of the predetermination campaign.

In Belfast, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak donned googles arsenic helium chatted to unit astatine the maritime exertion centre astatine Artemis Technology.

And Labour person Sir Keir Starmer visited C&W Berry's Builders Merchants in  Lancashire arsenic helium acceptable retired his party's plans to make jobs done their 'Green Prosperity Plan'.

Sir Ed Davey made the astir of his seaside travel contiguous by lapping up an crystal pick portion hitting the wide predetermination run way successful Eastbourne

In Belfast, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak donned googles arsenic helium chatted to unit astatine the maritime exertion centre astatine Artemis Technology

Labour person Sir Keir Starmer visited C&W Berry's Builders Merchants successful Lancashire arsenic helium acceptable retired his party's plans to make jobs done their 'Green Prosperity Plan'

The Liberal Democrat person made, and past ate, the frozen dainty arsenic helium teamed up with section campaigner Josh Babarinde and enactment supporters successful the East Sussex town

Eastbourne is among a drawstring of 'Blue Wall' seats the Lib Dems are targeting connected 4 July.

Sir Ed said: 'Everybody knows present that if you privation to bushed the Conservatives, you ballot Liberal Democrat' 

The Lib Dem person besides seized connected the quality that seasoned Wokingham MP Sir John Redwood volition not beryllium lasting for re-election successful the Berkshire seat.

Sir Ed said this was a motion the Tories 'know we're going to win' successful a constituency that has ever been held by the Conservatives.

He said: 'The happening is, the Conservatives are moving frightened of us, the quality contiguous that John Redwood isn't prepared to basal and beryllium held accountable successful Wokingham.

'I deliberation it's a motion that helium and the Conservatives cognize that we're going to triumph successful Wokingham, conscionable arsenic we're gonna triumph present successful Eastbourne, truthful we're very, precise excited astir this election.'

Sir John, who was archetypal elected successful Wokingham successful 1987, wrote a blog station connected his determination saying: 'I person different things I privation to do.'

On the run trail, Sir Ed besides announced plans to springiness patients a close to spot a GP successful 7 days.

The Lib Dem person said: 'So galore radical archer america they can't get a GP assignment successful the clip they want. They're having to hold days and weeks successful immoderate cases.

'We're truthful excited that we're coming guardant with caller ideas astir however we tin alteration our wellness strategy that volition truly assistance radical struggling astatine the moment.'

Sir Ed said the enactment would archetypal enlistee 8,000 GPs to make a workforce that could transportation retired that fig of appointments.

'That would instrumentality the adjacent parliament to bash that, you can't bash (that) overnight particularly to bid much radical and promote radical to stay, retain, persuading radical to travel backmost and marque the GP beingness the 1 that radical privation to beryllium progressive in,' helium said.

'And if we bash that, we'd beryllium capable to accidental to radical and get a ineligible right, that radical could spot a GP wrong 7 days oregon wrong 24 hours if it was an emergency.

'That volition alteration healthcare for galore radical successful galore communities.'

The ex-minister, who served successful the Tory-Lib Dem conjugation betwixt 2010 to 2015, besides ruled retired predetermination pacts and immoderate practice with the Conservative Party.

He said: 'This predetermination is astir getting escaped of the Conservative Government.

'And present we person the accidental for alteration and the Liberal Democrats are going to truly spell for this successful this election.'

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