General election LIVE: Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns quits before Boris Johnsons election speech latest news

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BORIS Johnson met with the Queen today to mark the start of the election period and ahead of launching his campaign.

But the PM suffered a massive blow on the first day of the election campaign after his Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns quit over a row about a collapsed rape trial.

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