General election 2019: Updates from the campaign trail - BBC News
Political parties promote their policies on the NHS, Brexit, knife crime and climate change.
We knew this was going to be a strange election. It's been a strange few years.

But while the parties are eagerly trying to stick to their familiar scripts - the Tories on Brexit, the Labour Party on public services, something far less recognisable is going on too in this campaign.

It started with Ian Austin last week, the former Labour MP who urged voters to choose Boris Johnson instead.

And it's fully breaking out on the other side too.

David Gauke, who only resigned from the cabinet a few months ago, has publicly urged voters to take a good look at the Liberal Democrats, saying that a Boris Johnson majority would be bad for the country.

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