Top marks. Yes, we've checked and you're right. The prime minister did walk on to the Rolling Stones' Start Me Up at the Conservative party conference in 2016.

Reacting to the speech and how it went down with supporters, former Lib Dem business secretary Vince Cable says it was "great".

It was "very inspirational", he says, and sent a "very clear message". Starting and finishing on Europe meant people had a choice of the destination, not just the departure on Brexit.

As the Tory party had "morphed into UKIP" he said, a lot of voters would be "alarmed" at what they were signing up to.

This election is "your choice about your future and you can choose a brighter future," the Lib Dem leader says.

Tim Farron says he wants a country where people are "decent to each other".

Working towards the end of his speech, he says he wants to be able to tell his children "I stood up" for the Britain he envisages.

"The Britain I love is not lost yet," he says, to huge applause, and the strains of Start Me Up by the Rolling Stones.

He's drawing a distinction between the kind of country he wants to see and that of the prime minister.

And, to laughter, he recommends people look at former UKIP leader Nigel Farage's Twitter feed "but not too often".

He says Theresa May is now saying the same things Mr Farage has been saying for 20 years.

And he speaks of a world view, that "shuns climate change, shrinks the NHS" and involves "turning our backs on some of the poorest and most desperate people in the world".

Mr Farage's world view is the same as Donald Trump's and that which Marine Le Pen tried to "impose" on the people of France, he says.

The compromises Theresa May makes in her negotiations with European officials will affect our children's future for decades to come, Tim Farron tells the crowd: "My children, your children, Malcolm's grandchildren.

"So I want you to have a choice over your future," he says of the final Brexit deal.

Tim Farron has taken to the stage, standing on a blend of Union Jacks and EU flags.

He's telling the crowd about the "bloke called Malcolm" who confronted him the other day for not getting behind Theresa May over Brexit.

Despite a tricky start, they got along in the end, the Lib Dem leader tells party supporters and journalists.

Those who voted to leave aren't bad, we just disagree, he says

But he says he still believes passionately that "our children" would have a brighter future if Britain remained in the EU.

And the country should have a say on any deal.

"Run with us, we've got everything you need. Come with us, I see passion in your eyes," the music invites, as Liberal Democrats take to the stage in the club.

They're holding placards which the promise of "A Brighter Future".

There's a party atmosphere, and some suitably orange disco lights at a nightclub in Bethnal Green, east London, where the Lib Dems are about to officially launch their manifesto.

To a soundtrack of Pet Shop Boys' West End Girls, former leader Nick Clegg works the room.

No sign of any dance moves yet.

The lights are on, the music's pumping and the Lib Dems are getting ready for their leader to speak just after 19:00 BST.

At the east London launch, the BBC's Ben Brown says it's the commitment to a second referendum on Brexit that is "very much the centrepiece" of the party's manifesto.

There are proposals to regulate and tax cannabis sales. But absent from the document is any promise to scrap tuition fees.

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It is not often that I accuse someone of being a cockroach in an interview, but Liberal Democrat Mark Williams, who is seeking reelection in Ceredigion, took it in typically good humour.

Read this from Nick.

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On the day that the Liberal Democrats launch their manifesto, reporter Manveen Rana visits a constituency where the party held a seat for 18 years, Edinburgh West.

She boards a tram to get an unscientific view of how people will vote in the general election.

BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg explains three things you should know about the Liberal Democrat manifesto.

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JME, Toddla T, Stormzy, AJ Tracey, Noverlist, Stormzy and Akala all come out in support of the Labour leader.

But why?

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The Liberal Democrats have put a second EU referendum at the heart of their general election manifesto, saying it would "give the final say to the British people".

The Lib Dems' Baroness Susan Kramer tells the PM programme voters had "no idea" what leaving the EU actually meant.

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Former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg sticks by his party's promise of a second vote: "The EU referendum is a process beginning to unfold and we don't know exactly what it will mean yet - it should be for the people to decide on the Brexit deal."

"The life blood of any democracy is the right to change your mind."

He accuses the government of seeking a hard Brexit "against the explicit stated wishes of those who have to inhabit that future - the young".

He's asked how he can appeal to the young when his party raised tuition fees.

He answers that "to govern is to choose - what we chose was to invest in pupil premium and free school meals".

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BBC Radio Nottingham Political Reporter

It seems that in several parts of the country, Labour candidates are turning down the opportunity to appear in non-constituency-specific election debates on local radio and regional television.

Here in the East Midlands, the likes of Chris Leslie, Lilian Greenwood, Gloria de Piero and Vernon Coaker have all decided not to take part in BBC debates.

I’m told it’s a similar situation in the West Midlands, with sitting Labour MPs reluctant to face questions about the manifesto and the leadership.

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I’ve also just found out that Vernon Coaker, who’s defending a majority of just under 3,000, will be joined by Ed Miliband on the campaign trail on Saturday.

Jeremy Corbyn has not been on a general election campaign visit to the area (and Vernon Coaker, like many Labour candidates, makes no reference to Corbyn in his campaign literature). So it seems some Labour candidates in marginal seats are happy to be seen with the former leader, but not the current one.

Scottish Labour has tonight suspended all nine members of the Labour Group on Aberdeen Council for breaching party rules.

The Labour group signed a formal deal with Conservative and independent groups, which left the SNP - the biggest party - in opposition.

Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale said: "Labour values must always run through any deals in local government.

Plaid says it will demand that every penny in EU funding to Wales is replaced by Westminster.

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Conservative Party chairman Sir Patrick McLoughlin said: "This manifesto makes one thing abundantly clear: a vote for the Lib Dems is a vote to put Jeremy Corbyn in Downing Street.

"From increasing taxes to borrowing more, from putting our security at risk to scrapping Trident, these policies are an echo of Corbyn's manifesto we saw earlier this week."

The Green Party accused the Lib Dems of lacking vision, saying the party needed to take off its "Brexit blinkers".

Greens co-leader Jonathan Bartley said: "Shouting about Brexit and trying to woo young people will not hide Tim Farron's terrible voting record: for reducing housing benefit, for the 'bedroom tax' and against a bankers' bonus tax."