Labour's shadow chancellor and shadow business secretary - John McDonnell and Rebecca Long-Bailey are giving a press conference in London.

Mr McDonnell says the Tory manifesto launched yesterday promised "more of the same" and failed working people and pensioners and did not mention living standards at all.

"This is extraordinary," he says, adding the PM should "seek to address" falling living standards.

The Scottish National Party has described the Conservative manifesto as an "assault on the poor, pensioners and public services".

SNP Leader Nicola Sturgeon said without "strong SNP voices" in the Commons, the Conservatives "will think they have a free hand to implement the damaging and deeply unpopular policy agenda they are too ashamed to talk about".

She said:

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Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has been pictured arriving for a press conference in London.

Mr McDonnell today criticised the Tories for releasing an "uncosted" manifesto.

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We're asking people about what #GetsMyVote in the run-up to next month's general election.

Muhammad Yousaf, a taxi driver from Nottingham, is worried about the price of shopping, fuel and other essentials.

The 63-year-old said he's noticed an increase in the cost of goods and living since last year, and would like to see politicians work together to tackle the problem.

“I think people are just fed up of politics now - nobody knows which way to turn, everyone is as bad as each other," he said.

“I don’t talk to my passengers much about it [politics]. We tend to talk about the weather.”

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Former Conservative chancellor Ken Clarke has said using party manifestos to outline spending plans is "crazy".

He said parties shouldn't be held to their manifesto promises on spending and instead should be able to raise and lower taxes when needed.

"Today's public relations politics has this crazy thing that you should have a detailed manifesto full of hostages to fortune," Mr Clarke told the Today programme.

Lib Dem leader Tim Farron, fresh from his appearance on last night's ITV leaders' debate, is on the stump in Manchester.

He again raises the prospect of a Margaret Thatcher-style landslide for Theresa May and says, if a relative has dementia: "Theresa May is coming for you."

He says the PM "assumes the election is already won, to the extent that she thinks it doesn't matter what she puts in her manifesto".

He accuses the Conservatives of being "heartless" in ending the triple lock on pensions and introducing what he terms a "dementia tax".

The Conservatives launched their manifesto on Thursday, promising to overhaul social care funding and deliver "for mainstream Britain".

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Brexit Secretary David Davis has said the Conservative pledge to bring net migration down to the tens of thousands is a "major policy imperative".

Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon described it only as an aim and ambition, but this morning Mr Davis insisted: "No, no, it's a pledge."

"The reason he was saying that is we're not setting a timetable on it. We need to do it in a way which looks after the economy but also delivers on what people wanted when they voted in the referendum."

Mr Davis also dismissed suggestions meeting the target could cost the UK economy as much as £6bn as "nonsense", saying most cost assessments failed to take into account the "longer-term effects - the effects on public services, the effects on housing, the effects on community, the whole-life costs of someone coming to the UK".

He added:

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Michael Fallon won't put a figure on how much hitting net migration could cost, but here's the projection from the Office for Budget Responsibility - almost £6bn.

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When Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon met Prime Minister Theresa May it wasn't questions of policy which dominated the front page of the Daily Mail, it was who had the best legs.

"Forget Brexit," said the headline: "Who won Legs-it?".

What did she make of it? Did it get to her? BBC Breakfast asked Ms Sturgeon.

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Labour's shadow chancellor has accused the Conservatives of making "60 uncosted commitments" in their manifesto.

"The only assurance... the Conservatives have given is that they’ll cut corporation tax to big businesses," John McDonnell told the Today programme.

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Former chancellor Ken Clarke is reminded of his "bloody difficult woman" comment about the prime minister, Theresa May - which she has since quoted several times.

"She's used it to her advantage many times," Mr Clarke says - but adds that he had said "I've always got on all right with her" and that he voted for her as Tory leader.

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The former Conservative chancellor Ken Clarke says he is "delighted" with his party's decision not to put detailed costings into its 2017 manifesto, which was launched yesterday.

"Ever since that crazy manifesto that somebody put out of Conservative headquarters last time, we appear now to have a debate that all the budgets for the next four years and every public policy you want should be constrained in detail in what I think you will agree is the rather mad atmosphere of a national election campaign."

He says it is "crazy" that chancellors should have to look at the manifesto "to see what the budget's going to have in it" and agrees with the decision not to put "a whole lot of figures" into the manifesto, which he says would be "hostages to fortune".

Scotland's most marginal Westminster seat - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk - will be hard fought on 8 June. So, what are the candidates saying?

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The Conservative former cabinet minister Ken Clarke says the Conservative target to reduce net migration to the "tens of thousands" "has been described as an aspiration".

"I would be surprised if we meet it in modern terms the world has become a smaller place ... we are in a globalised economy," he told BBC Radio 4's Today.

He says immigration "is not as easy as all that" and it is tough to remove illegal immigrants who use false identities.

The pledge "flags up that we need tighter control" he says - adding that he favours an ID card system for the UK, saying it is "absurd" we do not have them.

"I personally don't have any hang ups" over living in a multi-cultural society he says, but adds: "We simply cannot afford to take in all the world's poor" and tough immigration controls are needed, but also a recognition that we live in a "smaller world".

Election Call is live in Cardiff this morning as our audience of voters grill a panel of politicians.

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While saying every poll suggests the SNP are on course to win in Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon acknowledges gains by the Scottish Conservatives - but says they are "largely at the expense of Labour".

Scotland has seen a collapse in the Labour vote over the last few years, much of which has already turned to the SNP, she told BBC Breakfast.

"Now we're seeing Labour's remaining support turning to the Conservatives," she said.

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Accusing Theresa May of calling the election to "sweep away" opposition, Nicola Sturgeon said her message to Scotland was that if voters didn't want the prime minister to have unfettered control and the ability "to do whatever she wants, whatever the cost" then "we need to have strong voices, we need to have a strong opposition".