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       Rishi Sunak visits Oxfordshire supermarket before election
        
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       He visited the store in Carterton on Tuesday morning following an
       earlier visit to an Ocado packing plant in Bedfordshire - as part of a
       final push for votes in the last two days of the campaign leading up
       to the General Election.
        
       Carterton is near Witney where Lord David Cameron and the Tories won
       with a 15,200 majority in 2019 - but the polls are not predicting such
       a successful election for the Conservatives.
        
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       Mr Sunak has insisted predictions of a Tory defeat are "not going to
       stop me" after the likelihood of his return to Downing Street was put
       at less than "lightning striking twice in the same place" by a polling
       expert.
        
       Asked during a BBC Breakfast interview whether he accepted the
       analysis by elections guru Professor Sir John Curtice, the Prime
       Minister said: "That's his view.
        
       "That's not going to stop me from working as hard as I can over these
       final few days to talk to as many people as possible about the
       choice," Mr Sunak said, ahead of visiting a distribution company in
       Banbury.
        
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       "And I was up at 4am talking to workers at a distribution facility.
       I'm here talking to you. I'll be out till the last moment of this
       campaign because I think it's a really important choice for the
       country."
        
       In a last-ditch attempt to rally Conservative voters, the Tory leader
       will claim in a speech later on Tuesday that just 130,000 voters could
       prevent a Labour "supermajority".
        
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       He denied that his switch from talking about his policy plans to
       warnings about a landslide for Sir Keir Starmer was the language of
       defeat.
        
       "No, I'm very much still talking to people about our plan," he said.
        
       Mr Sunak also defended the Tory campaign, despite it having failed to
       narrow the opinion poll gap with Labour.
        
       Rishi Sunak in Morrisons in Carterton _(Image: Jonathan Brady/PA
       Newswire)_ Asked if he had got the campaign wrong, after it was hit by
       debacles including his early D-Day departure and the gambling row, Mr
       Sunak said: "No, actually. Everywhere I've been going, people are
       waking up to the dangers of what a Labour government would mean for
       them, particularly when it comes to taxes."
        
       He said that under the Tories things are "undeniably" better than they
       were a few years ago.
        
       "When it comes to the things that we want to do, people can see that
       we have turned a corner," he said.
        
       Meanwhile, Sir Keir said a big Labour majority would be "better for
       the country".
        
       The Labour leader will hammer home his get-out-the-vote message on a
       whistle-stop campaign tour to Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and
       Staffordshire on Tuesday.
        
        
        
        
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