Inside Politics: Tories make more promises to cut immigration, as parties finally settle on candidates

There are only 28 days to go until the general election

Here’s an idea. Maybe we should make Sir Rod Stewart prime minister and let him run the country? Sir Rod has revealed his secrets hobby is building model utopian cities – full of elegant skyscrapers, cool bridges and lush green spaces – to sit alongside his model train sets. “When I take on something creative I have to give it 110 per cent,” he says. The party leaders are asking us to imagine their own forms of Arcadia. Boris Johnson is promising us a paradise of green energy jobs and a points-based immigration system. Jeremy Corbyn, meanwhile, is offering up a Shangri-La where we only work four days a week and the gender pay gap is a thing of the past. But with the two party leaders getting yelled at everywhere they go, is our angry electorate too cynical to believe in a land of milk and honey? I’m Adam Forrest, and welcome to The Independent’s daily Inside Politics briefing.