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With 16 days to go until polling day for the UK generalelection, party leaders have been on the road campaigning.

Labour leader Keir Starmer and businessman TheoPaphitis visited a jewellery shop in Hampshirepromoting the party's plan for small businesses.

PM Rishi Sunak visited a farm in Devon where hemade a pitch to farmers promising to "deliver for all of you".

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey attended a garden party inHampshire to promote their policy of more waterinspections to clamp down on companies dumpingsewage into rivers and the sea.

SNP leader John Swinney urged Labour to abolish thetwo-child benefit cap while on a campaign visit to Oban.