As the diary predicted, the campaign trail is getting busy in Scotland.

Nicola Sturgeon has been visiting a Perthshire brewery.

While there, she's said the general election is a choice between electing SNP MPs who'll stand up for Scotland, or Tory MPs "who'll rubber stamp the prime minister's reckless approach to Brexit".

Scotland's first minister said Conservative targets for cutting immigration were based on ideology and weren't practical. 

Ms Sturgeon said there needed to be an honest conversation with voters about the need to attract skilled labour to allow the economy to flourish.

Announcing Labour's new plan to scrap hospital parking charges in England, Jeremy Corbyn adds: 

"Our hospitals are struggling from under-funding at the hands of Theresa May’s Conservative government, but the gap should not be filled by charging sick patients, anxious relatives and already hard-pressed NHS staff for an essential service.

"Our NHS needs a Labour government that will stand up for the many, not the few."

Out and about in East Dunbartonshire, Lib Dem leader Tim Farron's been reacting to the Tory manifesto pledge to cut immigration. 

He's calling the announcement political manoeuvering which means very little.

"Theresa May should know better - she has set and failed to meet countless immigration targets in her time as home secretary.

"It's important we have a migration policy, but important that policy is for the benefit of Britain and British universities, for the health service.

He said he wouldn't set a fixed target but would consider what Britain needed in terms of immigration.  

An announcement from Labour. There'll be free car parking at all NHS hospitals in England if Jeremy Corbyn is elected prime minister.

The Labour leader is pledging to scrap hospital parking charges and cover the lost revenue with an 8% hike in insurance premium tax to 20% for private health insurance products.

"Hospital parking charges are a tax on serious illnesses," Mr Corbyn says.

The PM is asked about reports that NHS staff are quitting to work in supermarkets because the pay is better. 

She doesn't answer directly, but says the NHS has had to "play its part" in the changes needed to deal with the deficit, although about half of staff get an annual pay rise of 3-4% each year.

She says she wants to see "more good staff" in the NHS, but for that, more money is needed so the economy must be strong.

After a short speech, it's time for questions. One from our own Laura Kuenssberg: What's the point in sticking to an immigration target that so many people, including within the Tories, believe can't be met?

Theresa May says a target is needed because of the impact too much immigration has on people "particularly at the lower end of the income scale and in terms of the pressure on public services".

She says the Tories will continue to say it should be brought down to "sustainable levels... and we believe that means tens of thousands".

Jeremy Corbyn, she adds, "wants to carry on with free movement as it always has been".

Theresa May's launch is personal and so is her attack on Labour.

"A vote for any other party is a vote for Jeremy Corbyn to be a step closer to sitting at that negotiating table," she says of Brexit.

She's listing policies like capping energy prices, improving mental health legislation, and then restates the message of the last few days, ever since the local elections saw big Tory gains.

"We must take absolutely nothing for granted... leave no stone unturned, no street unwalked on. Leave no door unknocked on."

Theresa May is in front of "her team" - her candidates for London and the South East.

We have our first mention of "strong and stable" and the need for people to vote Conservative to "strengthen my hand" in Brexit negotiations.

The Spectator

"Last week, Theresa May was accused of trying to turn the Conservative campaign presidential... Since then, candidates have been pitching themselves as ‘Theresa May’s candidate’ rather than as a Conservative candidate," says Steerpike for the Spectator., external

The column says the tone "lurched further to that of a US election" at the press conference - as we mentioned a few entries back - with the "Theresa May's team" banners.

"With CCHQ staking so much on May’s personal brand, Mr S hopes her approval ratings hold out…" it adds.

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The rap by Conservative politician Iain Duncan Smith on the GMTV sofa this morning has not impressed social media.

Should this highly unscientific Twitter poll be anything to go by, the former work and pensions secretary would be advised to stick to the campaign stage.

This is the scene ahead of a speech by the prime minister in north London. 

On the banners the word "Conservatives" is minute in comparison to the main message: "Theresa May's team".

A more presidential tone perhaps?

Norman Smith
Assistant political editor

It's almost an issue of trust - if Theresa May is to convince voters she is serious about getting the number of migrants to the UK down, she cannot abandon this pledge. 

However, UKIP is trying to pile the pressure on with their "one in, one out" policy - and implying that any commitment from Mrs May can't be trusted. 

We'll get the detail when the Tory manifesto is released, but it'll be interesting to see if there's a specific date to meet the target or whether it just disappears into never-never land. 

Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth has been at a south-east London school launching Labour's manifesto policy to ban adverts for junk food and sweets from all TV shows broadcast before the 21:00 watershed.

Earlier, he told BBC Breakfast how such adverts caused tensions in the Ashworth household, with his children badgering him for a Maccie Dees after such adverts during Britain's Got Talent.

Now Mr Ashworth has put his own talent of talking to children to good use in spreading the healthy food message...

Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Brian Paddick has issued a response to news that the Tories are sticking to the commitment to cut net migration to the tens of thousands.

"[Theresa] May seems to have forgotten everything she learnt in the Home Office - you cannot have a successful economy if you restrict immigration that much," he says.

"It seems like the Conservatives are intent on harming our economy, first with a hard Brexit that will yank us out of the single market and cost jobs, and now this."

When he was at the podium, UKIP leader Paul Nuttall addressed the party's disastrous results in Thursday's local elections, when they were left with a single councillor.

Here's what he said:

"We knew they were going to be the most difficult local elections we were going to fight.

"We thought we would we fighting them wholly on a local basis, none of us foresaw the fact they were made double difficult by a general election.

"At the moment, the PM is being believed on the issue of Brexit. She's able to talk the talk, but walking the walk will begin in September once negotiations really begin in earnest." 

Mr Nuttall continued: "We must be there to ensure that the government does not backslide on these negotiations. 

"To achieve this, UKIP must go into this election with a clear and forward-thinking range of policies that put clear water between ourselves and the establishment parties...

"We will be the only party, the only party, that goes into this election with honest, clear commitment to cut immigration."