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Tim Donovan
BBC London, Political Editor

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Many may think it's a foregone conclusion but in London this election is very difficult to read.

Long-standing Labour dominance in the capital, along with a Remain majority, make it more complicated to assess the impact of Brexit and the concerns over Jeremy Corbyn's leadership.

In these circumstances exactly how feelings over Europe will cut across constituency and party boundaries is hard to predict.

Have you always voted for a particular party and are now thinking about switching your vote?

Perhaps you haven't decided on who you will vote for yet. Maybe you're voting for the first time. Or is your family split on who to vote for?

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Tim Farron has been out and about at a school in West London this morning. The Lib Dem manifesto launch isn't until tonight, but we'll get our hands on the document itself at midday so will bring you more then.

In the meantime, a reminder of some of the top policy promises:

• a second EU referendum on the terms of the UK's Brexit deal
• to restore housing benefit for 18 to 21-year olds
• a £3bn rent-to-buy scheme to help people get on the housing ladder
• a discounted bus pass for 16 to 21-year-olds, offering 66% off local tickets

Theresa May was asked again towards the end of the Tory press conference to fulsomely endorse her chancellor.

"I'm happy to do so," she said.

"We've worked together for many years, longer than we would care to identify."

She then clarifies this is a comment on their age, not the state of their relationship.

This was Theresa May's reaction when a Sky News correspondent claimed she had admitted Brexit had hit people in the pocket.

Theresa May confirms the Conservative manifesto will be released "tomorrow".

Philip Hammond repeatedly told the Today programme earlier it would be "very soon", but resisted all pressure to name a date.

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Theresa May declines to say if Philip Hammond will still be her neighbour after 8 June.

Philip Hammond repeats that reports he has a strained relationship with Theresa May are media “tittle tattle".

Earlier, he seemingly confessed to occasionally swearing in communications with No. 10, but tries now to laugh that off.

"As my family will attest, I do occasionally swear," he tells the press conference.

The PM says everyone is just focused on 8 June.

Norman Smith
Assistant political editor

Anyone tuning into this press conference to hear more about the Tories plans for government will have been disappointed.

This was just an attack press conference to try to gut and fillet Labour's manifesto.

Chancellor Philip Hammond broadens the attack on Labour, saying Diane Abbott doesn't know how much it costs to employ police officers and Emily Thornberry can't explain their benefits policy.

"They have simply become a shambles, their numbers simply do not add up," he says.

Labour's "nonsensical plans" would leave a "£58bn black hole", he stresses, and "any economic credibility his party once had has been buried by Jeremy Corbyn and his acolytes".

Labour is offering a plan for the "ideological few, which would mean economic chaos for the many" is his spin on his opponents' slogan.

Theresa May is giving a speech at Canary Wharf, where she says: "The choice facing the British people is becoming clearer every day - do they want to be led by me or Jeremy Corbyn."

"Our economic security will be on the ballot paper," she says, and the Conservatives have proved their credibility by "taking the British economy out of the danger zone".

She sums up how she sees Labour's manifesto: