Theresa May makes an appeal to voters she describes as "proud and patriotic working class people".

They "have not deserted the Labour Party", she says. Jeremy Corbyn has deserted them.

The Tory leader says she respects people who have traditionally voted for Labour and adds: "If you put your trust in me, back me, I will strive to be a leader worthy of our great country."

She promises to work for a "fairer Britain".

Theresa May says Jeremy Corbyn "wants to change Britain and that's true".

He wants to take the UK back to the 1970s, back 40 years - "or maybe 400 years if you're Diane Abbott".

She attacks Labour's shadow home secretary over her failure to remember her figures when she was questioned by LBC host Nick Ferrari on Labour's policing policy.

Mrs May calls Labour's leaked manifesto a "multi-billion pound ideological wishlist" which, she claims, is "100% Jeremy Corbyn with costings that are 100% Diane Abbott".

Theresa May makes a speech in North Shields, claiming: "More and more people across Britain know why we need this election."

She says there are only two candidates for the top job, "me and Jeremy Corbyn" - and voting for the Labour leader is "too big a risk to take".

The PM tells her audience: "Never before in my lifetime has the choice been so stark."

As part of her pitch for traditional Labour supporters, she adds: "While Jeremy Corbyn speaks to the narrow few, I want to speak for the many... This election matters to every community."

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The future is bright for UKIP, according to its leader Paul Nuttall.

He reckons the party has a "brilliant future" and in 18 months time will have more members and higher poll ratings.

At the local elections UKIP lost 145 councilors and gained one seat, putting up around 400 candidates compared with 624 in 2015. 

Nevertheless, Mr Nuttall, who is standing in Boston and Skegness, hopes to capture working class voters who are anti-Tory but also put off by Labour. 

"They see they [Jeremy Corbyn] as unpatriotic and they see him as unrealistic and a throwback to the 70s. These people will go out and they will vote UKIP," he says.

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UKIP leader Paul Nuttall says he would be opposed to the UK becoming involve in future foreign military interventions, but he added that he is  "not a pacifist in any way, shape or form". 

Mr Nuttall was out campaigning in Bolton as Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn gave a speech on foreign policy. 

Mr Nuttall said: "I was opposed to the Iraq war, I was opposed to us getting involved in Libya, at the time, because I realised that what would come next would actually be worse than what went before."

He said he would only ever call for British soldiers to be sent overseas if it was "truly in the British national interest".

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The leaked Labour manifesto makes a big commitment to build new council houses, and housing is likely to feature prominently in all the manifestos.

Reporter Chris Vallance has been hearing from local people in Keswick, Cumbria and finds that the issues of affordable housing and second home ownership are very much on their minds.

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The Liberal Democrats have confirmed that the party's election manifesto will include a commitment to legalise cannabis, allowing it to be sold on the high street and taxed.

The pledge makes the Liberal Democrats the first major party to back legalisation.

Liberal Democrat Julian Huppert told Radio 4's The World at One that allowing anyone aged 18 and over to buy cannabis in licensed shops would "reduce crime, reduce mental health harm and there's tax money for the state which can be spent on education and treatment".

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Shadow transport secretary Andy McDonald has told BBC Radio 5 live that it would take at least two terms of a Labour government to achieve full nationalisation of the railways.

Labour’s policy is to take control of franchises when their current contracts lapse.  

He said this meant that “eight or nine” franchises could be nationalised in the next Parliament  – but that “six or seven” would remain in private hands.

Speaking to 5 live’s Emma Barnett, Mr McDonald said: “We're doing it sensibly and responsibly, so we are taking those franchises back into public ownership at the expiry of the franchise term.

“That will take for the duration of the franchises. And you're quite right: some of them will run over into the next administration.”

Mr McDonald also claimed that renationalisation would save “an absolute fortune”, bringing about £750m per year back to the taxpayer. He said:

If, like Guy Ritchie, you haven't fully got to grips with the election yet, here's our handy guide to the whole thing.

All hope to make gains while protecting seats they already hold.

Film director Guy Ritchie doesn't recognise the two most likely contenders to be PM after the election.

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Liberal Democrat candidate and former MP Julian Huppert explains the party's policy on cannabis, arguing that prohibition "just hasn't worked" and benefits criminal gangs.

"I don't want criminal gangs deciding who gets this and what they're going to get" but a regulated market instead, he tells BBC News.

He thinks the policy "should be welcomed" by voters, claiming it will "save lives" and free up the police who are wasting their time "nicking somebody for having a spliff".

Theresa May takes her campaign message to supporters in Berwick-upon-Tweed, telling them she is "taking absolutely nothing for granted" in this election.

There is the familiar line about "strong and stable leadership in the national interest" and a markedly personal tone: "Every vote for my local candidates... will strengthen my hand in those crucial Brexit negotiations."

She calls on activists to "take that message out there to every community, to cities and towns and villages across the UK".

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Nick Servini
Political editor, Wales

Welsh Conservative sources have told BBC Wales they are targeting between six and nine seats in the general election, on top of the 11 won in 2015.

Labour is focusing on three targets as well as aiming to hold its 25 seats.

Plaid Cymru is targeting six seats - including a push against Labour in the south Wales valleys - to add to the three it won last time.

The Lib Dems, who won a single seat in 2015, have their strongest hopes in three other seats they previously held.

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