Sunak’s election tour: where has the PM campaigned so far?

Over the first four weeks of the general election campaign, Sunak has so far personally made his way around 37 constituencies across the UK. With less than two weeks to go until the national poll, the Prime Minister has only ventured out of England on three occasions, and made just four trips to non-Conservative held seats. It suggests that he is is running a rather defensive campaign amid complaints that he has ‘abandoned’ the red wall. So where has Sunak gone so far?

Though he has visited every region in the UK, the PM has preferred to stay in the South of England, making six visits to the South East and and eight to the South West. Of the Conservative-held seats which the PM has visited, the average has majority of just over 17,000. The safest seats in which he has appeared include Northamptonshire South, which Andrea Leadsom won in 2019 with majority of 25,022 and the new seat of Grantham and Bourne, contested this time by Gareth Davies – who won the old constituency with a majority of 22,393.