General election live: racism row shows failure of Farage leadership, says Starmer as he sympathises with Sunak
Labour leader’s comments come after a secret recording of a Reform UK campaigner talking about the PM
The Conservative party deputy chair Angela Richardson called the sewage crisis a “political football” and claimed opposition parties and activists had put Tory MPs in physical danger by campaigning on the issue.
Richardson, who is standing for re-election in Guildford, where the River Wey was recently found to have 10 times the safe limit of E coli, also suggested the only reason people were talking about the problem was “because the Conservatives let everyone know it was happening”.