Both leaders fired the starting gun on their general election campaigns with speeches highlighting their ideas.
The Conservatives are pushing for six TV debates, but Labour officials will only commit to two run by the BBC and ITV.
The Prime Minister is set to announce a summer election at Downing Street
Keir Starmer, the Labour party’s 61-year-old leader, is current favourite to win the country’s July 4 election and would be the first Labour prime minister since 2010.
They may start the election in very different political positions but the PM and the Labour leader are similar characters.
Rishi Sunak’s proposal to reintroduce national service 61 years after it was scrapped has created a backlash
Nigel Farage said the PM had chosen political 'suicide' by gambling on a July 4 date, branding the Tories 'Big State liberals'.
What the latest polls say as Rishi Sunak settles on a snap general election.
On Wednesday, Rishi Sunak stepped out into the pouring rain to deliver a speech outside Downing Street in which he called a surprise summer election on July 4.
The Prime Minister claimed that, while the 'penny is dropping' across the continent on the need for a deterrent to stop illegal migration, Labour would incentivise people to come to the UK.
The legislation - which made it into the Prime Minister's speech announcing the July 4 election date - would have made it illegal to sell tobacco to anyone born after January 1, 2009.
Speaking on the first full day of the election campaign, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warned Sir Keir Starmer would scrap the Rwanda scheme and 'people will keep coming'.