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Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas says the people around Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have "put a lid" on progressive alliances between left and centre-left candidates.

She says it's "a betrayal" because "without some kind of cooperation in a handful of marginal seats" people will wake up on 9 June wondering "how on earth have we allowed a massive Tory landslide?"

Ms Lucas says she is disappointed because the "appetite for this is huge", but added: "It's being stopped by party leadership."

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Steve Williams, one of three Labour members expelled from the party for attempting to oust its official candidate for the South West Surrey seat, says: "I didn't leave - I was thrown out."

Mr Williams tells BBC2's Daily Politics he is "disappointed" because he and his colleagues had been doing their best to get rid of Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt from his seat.

A member of the party for 46 years, Mr Williams says he was expelled by letter from Labour HQ.

He says there are Labour, Lib Dems and Green candidates who are willing to stand aside "for the candidate best placed to defeat a Conservative".

He argues that UKIP are supporting Conservative candidates to defeat the Left, so "why can't the progressive side of politics do the same".

Mr Williams says he wants to see Jeremy Corbyn in Number 10 and insists he will attempt to rejoin the party as soon as possible because Labour "is in my soul".

He says there are precedents for standing aside, citing how Labour and Lib Dem candidates did so in 1997 in an attempt to defeat Conservative Neil Hamilton in favour of "unity candidate" Martin Bell.

The former Labour MP for Rochdale, Simon Danczuk, is being investigated over a rape allegation.

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Former Conservative education secretary Michael Gove concedes that schools have had "to deal with the consequences of tighter budgets" under his government.

He defended claims that the government had cut the per head funding for pupils by stressing that school populations have been boosted by increased migration and a baby boom.

Mr Gove says he is in favour of grammar schools, but stressed: "New selective provision will only be set up where there's a popular demand for it."

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Labour's Jack Dromey says his party will fund NHS staff pay rises by reversing cuts to corporation tax - in addition to boosting funding for schools.

The party's business spokesman insists the Institute for Fiscal Studies "have said our figures are sound".

He says the party can raise in excess of £50bn from corporation tax changes "that will fund our education pledge and other pledges as well".

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Tim Farron says he is "relaxed" about local Lib Dem party deals - but will not enter a coalition.

UKIP leader Paul Nuttall says Theresa May's appearance on BBC's One Show with husband Philip is "not my cup of tea to be honest with you".

He tells BBC2's Daily Politics sometimes politician's spounses can become "too involved", and he cites Tony Blair's wife Cherie as an example, and to some degree US president Barak Obama's spouse Michelle.

Mr Nuttall says he's always been keen to keep his public life public and his private life private.

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The Lib Dems "won't be putting money into grammar schools" if they gain power following the general election, the party's education spokesman has said.

Sarah Olney, the Lib Dems' newest MP, says they will also be considering free schools, "where millions are being wasted in areas where there isn't demand for extra places".

The Lib Dems have already unveiled a pledge to spend £7bn on schools and colleges, which will be funded by reversing cuts to corporation tax, scrapping the married couples' allowance and keeping Britain in the single market.

Ms Olney says education is a "key priority" for her party because schools are having "very real trouble... maintaining teaching staff" under current government funding plans.

"The evaluation set out by the Crown Prosecution Service in today’s announcement is consistent with that of the Commission, which concluded that the Conservative Party’s spending return was incomplete and inaccurate, as it contained spending that should have been included in the candidates’ returns," a statement reads., external

Lib Dem leader Tim Farron says it would appear the Conservatives have "stayed the right side of the law by the letter of it" following the CPS's decision that no-one will be charged over election expenses breaches.

But he claims the party "has driven a battle bus and horses right the way through the spirit of it".

He adds: