Boris Johnson to promise end to ‘Brexit groundhoggery’ in first stump speech

Prime minister will repeat familiar themes in visit to West Midlands factory. Boris Johnson is to use his first set-piece speech of the election campaign to stress a familiar roll-call of core policies, including a pledge to “end the groundhoggery of Brexit”, spend more on the NHS and cut crime. Speaking at an electric vehicle plant in the West Midlands, Johnson is due to combine touting the Conservative offering with a vehement condemnation of Labour, saying Jeremy Corbyn’s pa