Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the election "gives the British people the chance to vote for a Labour government that will put the interests of the majority first".
If the ruling Conservative party obtains a big majority in the general election in June this year, it will make it more likely for Britain to seal a trade transitional deal - a leeway period or phased process of implementation of Brexit agreements for the United Kingdom with the European Union.
This sentiment was echoed by Ryan Shorthouse, the director of liberal conservative thinktank Bright Blue, who said that if May wanted a big majority then "the Conservatives need to gain seats which are now Labour and have a disproportionate number of voters on modest incomes or from black, Asian or ethnic minority backgrounds, as well as containing a revived Liberal Democrats in the south of England".
"Why? Shoving out the next election after the 2017 election from 2020 to perhaps 2022 gives room for a transition period out of the European Union before the next election".
Mr Corbyn will deny that Conservative victory in the June 8 election is a "foregone conclusion", as he makes his first keynote speech of the campaign.
Peers would also be forced to back the priorities under the Salisbury Convention, which means that the Lords will not try and vote down government plans mentioned in an election manifesto.
The Sun, Britain's top-selling newspaper, splashed the headline "Blue Murder" - a reference to the Conservatives' party colour and the prospect of Labour losing dozens of seats.
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But what's coming out later Wednesday afternoon are guidelines, not legislation, akin to what would be revealed in a campaign. Additionally, cost estimates must be honest and not rely on gimmicks that hide the true long-term cost of tax cuts.
But the source said: "Any suggestion we are going to change our approach to the inclusion of overseas students in the migration statistics is plain wrong". We can't win, they say, because we don't play their game.
Mr Corbyn will say: "It's a rigged system set up by the wealth extractors for the wealth extractors".
"They're quite right I don't".
'We want a fair system of taxation to pay for our public services. The nurse, the teacher, the small trader, the carer, the builder, the office worker win. "And a Labour government elected on 8 June won't play by their rules".
"But things can, and they will, change".
Addressing an audience of Labour supporters in London, Mr Corbyn inveighed against the "morally bankrupt" Conservatives who he said refused to employ the required punitive measures against tax avoiders and other members of a "gilded elite", who were taking wealth "from the pockets of ordinary working people".
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