Party leaders end three-day truce by resuming national election campaign following Manchester terror attack
Candidates will observe a minute's silence before continuing their campaigns
PARTY leaders will end a three-day truce by restarting the national election campaign tomorrow.
Today candidates will resume campaigning at a local level after observing a minute’s silence at 11am.
They had been under strict party orders not to take part in campaign events that involved contact with voters - limiting all activity to leafleting.
But several Labour candidates - desperately defending wafer thin marginals - defied the order.
Some Labour insiders even suggested the June 8 vote should be put back to make up for lost ground.
The source said: “What’s going on now is Theresa May is doing the best campaigning in the world. You cannot suspend campaigning and not suspend the election.”
The Sikh Federation said the General Election should be postponed, insisting it should not take place at a time when the terror threat is at its highest level and there are troops on the streets.
Mike Gapes, Labour candidate for Ilford South, told The Sun: “My position is that democracy must continue, we must not let the terrorists win by changing the way we debate.
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“The terrorists hate our democracy, they hate equality between men and women, they hate the fact that children can go to concerts - that’s what they want to undermine and the best response to terrorism is to not allow them to change the way we behave.”
Ukip will restart their national campaign a day earlier than rival parties by launching their manifesto today.
Jeremy Corbyn will restart Labour’s national campaign with a speech on democracy tomorrow.
In a statement he insisted that continuing with the election campaign was an “essential mark of the country’s determination to defend our democracy and the unity that the terrorists have sought to attack”.
The SNP - which was due to unveil its manifesto on Tuesday - is now expected to launch it on Monday.
Theresa May will today observe the minute’s silence before travelling to Brussels for a key Nato summit.