BORIS Johnson will on Halloween tell voters to back him or face an economic nightmare under a Jeremy Corbyn government as he puts the hard-left Labour boss front and centre of his bid to stay on in No10.
The PM will also blame Britains failure to leave the EU today on Mr Corbyns dither and delay as both men start their election campaigns.
Mr Johnson on Wednesday night made it clear that Brexit will be at the heart of his offer to voters on December 12 hours before the UKs breakaway was due to take place until the latest three-month delay.
He insisted 2020 can be a great year for the UK and now is the time to break the deadlock and move on.
Also on Wednesday as the election starting gun was fired:
- Brexit Party boss Nigel Farage gave the PM a final 24 hours to decide on an electoral pact with him;
- Tory Cabinet ministers privately warned they fear the election will result in a hung Parliament;
- Up to four axed Tory MPs could run against Conservative candidates in a blow to the partys majority hopes;
- Mr Johnson warned the Cabinet that his own Uxbridge seat is at risk from a Labour surge in December;
- A row over TV debates erupted as Mr Corbyn challenged the PM to an on-air joust but Lib Dem boss Jo Swinson insisted she must be allowed to take part.
Mr Johnson will also on Thursday highlight the Tories domestic promises with a whistlestop tour of a school in Suffolk, a hospital in Cambridgeshire and a police unit in London.
Mr Corbyn, meanwhile, will begin his campaign with a pledge to bring down a corrupt system of tax dodgers, bad bosses and polluters.
POLITICAL ATTACKS
He will launch an extraordinary attack on billionaire businessman and chemicals magnate Sir Jim Ratcliffe, blasting him as a big polluter.
And he will savage Hugh Grosvenor, 28, the Duke of Westminster and one of Britains biggest landowners, accusing him of trying to evict whole blocks of families to make way for luxury apartments.
In a fiery speech in Labour-held Battersea, South West London, he will vow to take on the elite because we know whose side were on.
Mr Corbyn will say: You know what really scares the elite?
What theyre actually afraid of is paying their taxes. So in this election theyll fight harder and dirtier than ever before.
Expert spread betting firm Sporting Index also on Wednesday predicted the Conservatives will fail in their quest for an overall majority by just two seats.
It projected Boris will win 324 seats, Labour 204, the SNP 50 and the Lib Dems 47.
It emerged on Wednesday that the PM told a meeting of his top team last week that CCHQ bosses have put Uxbridge on an at-risk register.
The PM held Uxbridge with a majority halved to just 5,000 at the 2017 poll.
The Tories are pouring in digital advertising cash to defend the PMs seat from a Momentum-lead decapitation attempt spending 1,178 on Facebook this week alone to target 200,000 Uxbridge voters.
