Emma Vardy
Daily and Sunday Politics reporter

My look back at some of the lighter moments in the election campaign with computer games and cooking, but also talk of bridge tolls, free sanitary products and Diane Abbott addressing the Police Federation.

Ellie Price
Daily and Sunday Politics reporter

Is the issue of Scottish independence the key issue for voters in the campaign for the 59 Scottish seats at Westminster?

I took the mood box - an unscientific test with plastic balls and a box - to get views from people in Dumfries, in a seat that has been passed from Labour to the SNP and now being targeted by the Conservatives.

The Daily Politics

A party that wants to stop global warming, invest in renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure, abandon "endless economic growth", and replace the monarchy with an elected presidency is putting up three candidates on 8 June.

Alliance for Green Socialism leader Mike Davies told Daily Politics presenter Andrew Neil about how its policies varied from what Labour and the Greens were offering.

The Daily Politics

Liberal Democrats have launched their 2017 election manifesto, ruling out working in a coalition and committed to a referendum on the UK's deal to leave the EU.

Richard Newby, the party leader in the House of Lords, told Daily Politics presenter Andrew Neil: "People voted for a departure, they had no idea last year what they were going to get."

In response to today's editorial in the Evening Standard by the former Conservative chancellor George Osborne, UKIP immigration spokesman John Bickley said: "Under Cameron and Osborne's government, which pledged to bring net immigration down to the "tens of thousands", with the explicit support of Mrs May, then home secretary, gross immigration ran at just under 600,000 a year.

"Why did Osborne's Tories make this promise and then so disastrously fail to deliver it? Were they incompetent or misleading the British people, most likely both."

John Pienaar, Norman Smith and Alex Forsyth discuss the Liberal Democrat’s attempt to mount a comeback by promising a referendum on a Brexit deal and legalising cannabis.

But did questions about Tim Farron’s views on gay sex early in the campaign knock him off course?

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The Great Get Together, external - a June weekend when communities will gather to remember Labour MP Jo Cox - will show there is more that unites than divides people, her widower Brendan says.

He was speaking in Edinburgh where he discussed plans for events on 16-18 June with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and other leaders - one week after the general election.

Mrs Cox, 41, was shot and stabbed by Thomas Mair in her Batley and Spen constituency on June 16 last year.

Brendan Cox said:

They would also reintroduce maintenance grants, but stop short of scrapping tuition fees in England.

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The BBC News site is listing all candidates standing on 8 June - find them with our postcode search.

The Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has announced he is retiring. His party, Fine Gael, will elect a new leader who will be in place on 2 June and take over as Taoiseach.

Mr Kenny, who has been Taoiseach since 2010, told his party of his decision at a meeting this afternoon.

He tweeted a statement:

A probe into the political use of private data has been opened by the information commissioner.

Dan Johnson
BBC News

On a miserable, wet afternoon in Derby about 50 Labour Party activists huddled under umbrellas, waiting for the shadow chancellor. He was late.

Tube delays meant he missed his train from London - the sort of disruption John McDonnell told them wouldn't happen under a Labour government. He also said the sun would shine.

The man keeping the rain off by balancing a "Vote Labour" board on his head looked hopeful but this was a "pledge", not a promise.

The shadow chancellor described the launch of Labour's manifesto yesterday as a groundbreaking moment, the most important since Labour's successful post-war 1945 election campaign.

He knows the spending promises he made yesterday are largely popular but - as the soggy scarf held up behind him reading "Everything for Everyone" reinforced - the challenge is convincing the wider electorate those promises are realistic and can be delivered.

The World at One
BBC Radio 4

The World At One's Emma Jane Kirby went to Cromer in North Norfolk - held by the Liberal Democrats - to get local reaction to the party's manifesto and the pledge of a second vote on the final Brexit deal.

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News from around the globe

European papers say Labour’s manifesto is the most left-wing in decades, but unlikely to expand the party’s electoral appeal.

Spain’s La Razon, external says Mr Corbyn “claims to be the new Robin Hood, but he’s ceded the centre ground" to the Conservatives, and makes argues that the manifesto’s soft line on migration leaves it “far removed from traditional, eurosceptic Labour voters”.

France’s Les Echos, external business daily thinks last week's manifesto leak did not detract from the "sensation caused by Jeremy Corbyn's tax announcement". It says that “he knows he won’t win, and has gone for broke with a tack to the left featuring major tax increases for top earners”.

Rotterdam's Algemeen Dagblad, external is brutal in dismissing Mr Corbyn's "beautiful promises on the edge of the abyss", and warns that if he stays on as leader it could "mean the end of the party".

Another topic is the perception that Theresa May is holding up EU business in order to avoid adverse publicity at home.

France's Le Monde, external says the government wants to “avoid budget issues, as they could tarnish the election campaign”.

Poland’s Rzeczpospolita, external agrees, quoting various senior European parliamentarians warning the European Commission not to let Brexit “dominate the EU while we need to deal with our own future”.

John McDonnell has said Britain desperately needs a Labour government to "rebuild and transform our society" and to give people hope.

Speaking at a campaign event in Derby, the shadow chancellor said Labour would investment in health, education, skills and infrastructure to create "prosperity that is shared by all".

Mr McDonnell said the opinions polls were "coming in our direction", there was "a movement", and Labour had three weeks to turn that into success at the ballot box.

He was questioned over his apparent confusion about the difference between the debt and the deficit during an interview on the BBC's Today programme.

John McDonnell said he had got the figure for the deficit correct and pointed out that the chancellor this morning got the cost of HS2 wrong.

An investigation has been opened into the use of data analytics for political purposes, the the Information Commissioner has said in a blogpost., external

Elizabeth Denham says the inquiry will look at practices used during the EU referendum campaign, and potentially other campaigns, as well as how international companies are handling data in the UK and the impact of the practices used.

Political parties, data companies and social media platforms will be expected to co-operate, she adds.

The timing of the decision is, she stresses, unrelated to the current election campaign.

BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed

Jeremy Corbyn has recently been endorsed by some of the most popular grime musicians in the UK, including Stormzy, Novelist, Akala, and JME.

But why?

BuzzFeed has done some analysis, external, highlighting his efforts to appeal to young voters, his background of campaigning for race equality and his support for veganism (yes, really).