Campaign round-up: Five days to go

It’s five days until voters go to the polls – here’s a quick look at how the elections are shaping up across the country.

Quote of the Day

Sadiq Khan lays out how he will tackle anti-Semitism as Mayor in Jewish News:

I will always protect communities whose beliefs and practices attract the inexplicable hostility of others, and I’ll get to grips with religious hate crimes. I’ll make tackling hate crimes a far higher priority for the Metropolitan police, and I’ll work with London universities to ensure that anti-Semitic or Islamophobic preachers of hate are not welcome and are not given a platform for their poisonous views.

Message of the Day

Scottish Labour unveils its poster for the last week of the campaign, pledging a stop to the cuts:

Polls of the Day

This won’t tell us a great deal about how we expect Labour to do on Thursday, but new research says that nine out of 10 people do not know the name of their Police and Crime Commissioner. Of those who said they did know, around 10 per cent got it wrong.

Turnout in the 2012 PCC elections was a meagre 15 per cent, and although Labour won more votes, they finished with fewer commissioners elected than the Tories: by 13 to 16. With voting across the board in local elections this week, will we see a boost in turnout? And how will that affect the result?

In Wales, meanwhile, a post-leaders’ debate poll put Labour leader Carwyn Jones in third place – both for performance and for best First Minister.

Opposition Watch

George Osborne has said he will cut business rates for local papers to help boost the struggling industry. With less than a week before the local elections, how might that affect coverage…?