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In Pictures: Campaigning enters home straight before Super Thursday elections

By: PA News

Published: 11:58, 05 May 2021

Updated: 16:22, 05 May 2021

Politicians have been out and about on the final day of campaigning before voters go to the poll across the country.

Elections are being held for the Scottish Parliament, the Senedd in Wales, local councils, mayors and police and crime commissioners.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson joined the Tory candidate to be West Midlands mayor, Andy Street, for a bike ride along the towpath of the Stourbridge canal (Rui Vieira/PA)
Mr Johnson waved to the media as he cycled along (Rui Vieira/PA)
Chancellor Rishi Sunak cooked chips during a visit to the Marine Holiday Park in Rhyl, Denbighshire (Phil Noble/PA)
Mr Sunak then got the chance to taste them (Phil Noble/PA)
Labour MP Yvette Cooper (l to r), West Yorkshire mayoral election candidate Tracy Brabin and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer visited Pontefract
The Labour leader helped pack a box of food during a visit to a food bank project at St Giles Food Share (Ian Forsyth/PA)
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey joined the party’s London mayoral candidate Luisa Porritt to seek votes in his home constituency of Surbiton in south-west London (Jonathan Brady/PA)
Conservative London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey was joined by vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi during a visit to Kennington (Victoria Jones/PA)
Labour rival Sadiq Khan was on the campaign trail in Newham, east London (Ian West/PA)
In Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visited J Charles fish merchants in Aberdeen (Russell Cheyne/PA)
Ms Sturgeon later visited a jewellers whilst campaigning in Alford (Russell Cheyne/PA)
Former prime minister Gordon Brown spoke at a Scottish Labour drive-in rally in Glasgow (Jane Barlow/PA)
Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross and ex-leader Ruth Davidson held placards in front of Stirling Castle (Andrew Milligan/PA)
Preparations for voting were under way the remote island of Gigha as Shona Barton, a member of the Returning Office team from Argyll and Bute Council, arrived with ballot boxes (Andrew Milligan/PA)

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