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Chuka Umunna is leading a number of Labour candidates in launching their own EU demands. 

Mr Umunna, once a Labour leadership hopeful, said that Theresa May will be regarded as"John Major II" rather than Margaret Thatcher's heir as a result of pursuing a "hard" Brexit.

He is chairman of Vote Leave Watch which wants the UK to stay in the single market and customs union.

Heidi Alexander, former shadow cabinet minister who is seeking re-election in Lewisham East, added: "We need to stand up to those Little Englanders who tell us there is a golden economic future out there - that we know that future is little more than a figment of their imagination."

YouGov polled people on their leanings following Jeremy Corbyn's speech earlier today. This is what it found.

With all the general election 2017 candidates' nominations papers in, we've collected together links to where you can find full information from the returning officers in the 18 Essex constituencies:

• Basildon and Billericay, external
• Braintree, external
• Brentwood , external
• Castle Point, external
• Chelmsford, external
• Clacton, external
• Colchester, external
• Epping Forest, external
• Harlow, external
• Harwich and North Essex, external
• Maldon, external
• Rayleigh and Wickford, external

• Rochford and Southend East , external
• Saffron Walden, external
• South Basildon and East Thurrock , external
• Southend West, external
• Thurrock, external
• Witham, external

The election takes place on Thursday, 8 June.

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A former adviser to Jeremy Corbyn has told BBC Radio 5 Live that he believes Mr Corbyn could stay on as leader even if he is defeated in the General Election.  

Harry Fletcher who worked for the Labour leader in a PR and communications capacity said he thought Mr Corbyn might stay in post unless Labour's share of the vote fell below the 20% mark in the general election.

“If it's below 20%, it's difficult to see how he could stay.  But if he gets 25, 30 [%] or even more, I think he will say, ‘This is a platform from which I can build more and more and more’.”

 “In terms of the Parliamentary Labour Party, they've twice tried to oust him through elections and failed.  They’ve tried to change the rules to keep him off the ballot paper and failed.  And Jeremy rightly says, ‘I've been elected by an overwhelming majority of the party members, so I should stay loyal to them’.”

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The Women's Equality Party says it would invest in "social infrastructure" with free childcare and "fully equal" parental leave.

The party, founded in 2015, is contesting seven seats on 8 June and will launch its manifesto later.

Leader Sophie Walker said it included plans for more parental leave and 40 hours free child care a week.

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Brexit minister David Davis claims that European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has learned not meddle in British politics.

Following a wave of leaks last week about a meeting also attended by Prime Minister Theresa May over Brexit, Mr Davis told the Daily Telegraph: "I think to be honest he has now learned his lesson - he is not going to be meddling in British politics any more or at least if he does he will get the same reaction."

It is the question that is surely worrying us all - how will Brexit affect Great Britain's chances in the Eurovision Song Contest?

Prime Minister Theresa May told The One Show on Tuesday she wasn't sure the UK would win too many points under the circumstances.

The BBC examines the issue...

Labour says it "does not recognise" the £90bn cost attached to the proposals set out in its leaked draft manifesto.

There have been varying reports of how much Labour's plans will cost from £62bn to £93bn.

The Guardian reports that a spokesman for the party said: “Labour has not published the manifesto yet, but when we do we will set out our plans in full.”

The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator has said he wants to find solutions to the issue of the Irish Republic's border with Northern Ireland once the United Kingdom leaves the EU.

Mr Barnier said he wanted to achieve that “without rebuilding any kind of hard border” and aimed to protect and preserve the Good Friday Agreement.

He was meeting business owners based near the Irish border who might be affected by future tariffs on UK-EU trade. Mr Barnier said he wanted to work out solutions which were “compatible with the single market” due to the “huge importance of not only the dairy but agri-food and agriculture sector in these cross border exchanges”.

He told reporters that he had “weeks” to find a solution and wanted to listen and meet people on the ground. However, the forthcoming negotiations would be complex: "This negotiation will not be only financial, legal or technical. In my view it will first human and social and economic.”

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Rear Admiral Chris Parry, branded Jeremy Corbyn's foreign policy "absolute nonsense" and said it was a "coded policy for disarmament and not for defense".

The former Royal Navy warfare officer told Sky News that he disagreed with Mr Corbyn's policy of only using the military as a last resort. "The whole point of military force is that you use it at a time and place when its effective. If you always use it as a last resort you end up with the pickle that you've had in Syria."

He added: "I think what's going to happen is that he's going to worry our allies that we're not prepared to stand in the breach with them in future and I think he's also going to worry people in the armed forces who frankly won't want to risk their lives in actually going in harms way for such an abject policy."

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Past PMs David Cameron and Tony Blair have made a temporary step back into UK politics.

Daily Politics reporter Adam Fleming looks at the 24 hours on the campaign trail, where the Greens unveiled an election broadcast and the Lib Dems want to extend paid paternity leave.

And he caught up with Guy Ritchie and Boris Johnson...

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The Green Party will field 467 candidates, compared with 535 in the 2015 general election. 

It has stood aside in 22 constituencies to help broadly-left parties beat the Tories, while the Women's Equality Party stood down for the Greens in five seats and the Lib Dems stood down in one constituency.

Theresa May takes aim at another Labour manifesto policy: renationalising the railways.

"I'm old enough to remember what the rail service was like under British Rail," she says.

She believes that privatised rail operators are "more focused" on serving passengers.

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The SNP has been the only party to have put together a document guaranteeing the rights of UK nationals in EU states, and European citizens now in the UK after Brexit, says its Europe spokesman.

Stephen Gethins said Theresa May was using their rights as "bargaining chips" in Brexit talks, as he accused the Conservatives of "bluff and bluster".

He also spoke to Daily Politics presenter Jo Coburn about tax policies in the general election campaign.

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Jeremy Corbyn would react in the same way as any Labour or Conservative prime minister if there was a threat to the UK, said his shadow minister for peace and disarmament.

After the leader spoke about defence on Friday morning, Fabian Hamilton told Daily Politics presenter Jo Coburn: "Defence of the realm is safe with the Labour Party - it always has been, it always will be."

A reporter from the Newcastle Chronicle says the north east of England has suffered as a result of austerity.

Given that Theresa May has "played a major part" in government for the last seven years, what can she offer people in the north east?

Mrs May says "unemployment is down by almost a third" in the region and there are more NHS staff and more children in good schools.

Labour would "wreck the economy" meaning fewer jobs and less money for hospitals and schools, she claims.