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Despite Vladimir Putin’s war and the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, eight years after the vote, Brexit is among the most-cited reasons for declining public services, according to new research.

Three in four Brits believe services are worse since the last general election in 2019, research by Ipsos found.

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Ian Gribbin, who is standing in Bexhill and Battle, also wrote online that women were the “sponging gender” and should be “deprived of health care”.

Rishi Sunak has been forced to deny that he will quit before polling day as he seeks to reinvigorate his stalled election campaign with a manifesto focused on tax cuts.

The Tory leader said he would carry on “until the last day” as he tried to draw a line under last week’s D-Day row.

It’s a charming village at the foot of the Surrey Hills featuring a quaint high street with many independent cafes and shops.

Surrounded by beautiful countryside and a short journey from Guildford railway station with links into London, Cranleigh is unsurprisingly a sought-after location to live for commuters working in the capital.

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Sunak denies that Tory prime ministers don’t care about the NHS because they and their families can go private and “skip the queue”.

Mr Sunak said: “I come from an NHS family, so my dad was a GP. My mum was a pharmacist. I was surrounded…”

When it was put to him that he uses private health care, Mr Sunak added: “Yes, I have done in the past, but I also use the NHS and rely on the NHS, as do my kids, but at the end of the day, I was raised in an NHS family, surrounded by people who dedicated their lives to the NHS, talking at home about what more they could do to look after their patients and that’s how I think about the NHS today, which is why, as I said, we’re backing it with record funding and more doctors and nurses.

“Now, as you can see, we are bringing the waiting lists down after what has been a difficult period.”