Jeremy Corbyn is now taking questions at Labour's event in Watford. First question is from the BBC about this morning's child care costs brain freeze. The second question's also on the stumble, prompting the moderator to plead for a question on the topic of the Watford speech - Labour's race and faith manifesto. Here's Mr Corbyn's response to that first inquiry.

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"Northern Ireland is the area that will be worst hit by a hard Brexit," says the leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Colum Eastwood.

The SDLP launched its manifesto earlier and Mr Eastwood says voters in Northern Ireland "are very, very concerned" about the prospect of a hard border with the Republic of Ireland, including the impact on cross-border trade.

The party is campaiging for "the best possible outcome from the Brexit negotiations", he says, claiming the SDLP is "the most pro-European party, probably, on these islands".

"We don't trust Theresa May to be our voice in these negotiations," he adds.

Turning to rival parties in Northern Ireland, Mr Eastwood says the Democratic Unionist Party will be "cheerleaders for Theresa May" while Sinn Fein "don't turn up at all" as the party has a policy of boycotting Westminster.

Jeremy Corbyn is now on stage at the launch of the Labour Party's race and faith manifesto at an event in Watford. Opening with a reference to the bomb attack in Manchester, he tells the audience:

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell tells the Labour rally that the party wants a society that is "radically fairer, radically more equal and radically more democratic".

He adds: "But it will be based on a prosperous society."

Of Labour's manifesto, he says: "Every policy was properly costed and a funding source identified.

"In the Tory manifesto, the only numbers are the page numbers."

The BBC and other national broadcasters were initially not allowed into Labour's race and faith event. We did get in eventually, as one fellow journalist tweets:

Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott has addressed a Labour campaign event in Watford, setting out the party's polices for "diverse communities and faith groups".

She told supporters: "The Labour movement's role standing shoulder to shoulder with diverse communities and faith groups is not last year, it's not the last decade. It goes back nearly a century to the dawn of colonial struggle."

Labour "has always celebrated" diverse communities and stood up for them before it was "fashionable to do so", she added.

And Ms Abbott recalls her mother, saying that "she would be so proud to see me here today: Labour's shadow home secretary".

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A Conservative candidate in murdered MP Jo Cox's former constituency has apologised for making an "ill-judged" shooting remark at a hustings event.

Answering a question about integration Dr Ann Myatt said: "We've not yet shot anybody so that's wonderful."

Mrs Cox was fatally shot and stabbed in Birstall, West Yorkshire, by Thomas Mair in June 2016.

Dr Myatt said she "wholeheartedly" apologised and her comments were "ill-judged". Mrs Cox's widower Brendan called the remark a "stupid thing to say", but urged people to "assume the best and put it down to a slip of the tongue rather than any malice".

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Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron was grilled by voters on Radio 5 Live’s Your Call earlier.

Bryher, in Crystal Palace, said: “I am 66 years-old and I have voted in every election as a Liberal Democrat. You have taken my vote away from me because you are trying to overturn the referendum... how dare you do that to me?”

Mr Farron said that, by seeking to take the UK out of the single market as well as the EU, Theresa May is "interpreting the rule of the people, she's certainly not enacting it".

A quick lunchtime round-up on what has already been a busy day of campaigning.

• The SNP has launched its general election manifesto, pledging to be a strong opposition to the Conservatives at Westminster and present an alternative to "austerity"
• The document calls for a vote on Scottish independence, external to be held "at the end of the Brexit process"
• Jeremy Corbyn has followed last night's live TV interviews with an appearance on Woman's Hour, where he was unable to put a cost on Labour's plan for free childcare for 1.3m youngsters
• Theresa May claimed that she would be "100% committed" to the Brexit process and would provide "a strong government to see it through"
• Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas said the low profile of environmental issues in the campaign was "scandalous"

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Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner says Jeremy Corbyn does, in fact, know the cost of the party's flagship childcare policy, but was probably tired when he appeared on Woman's Hour.

"Jeremy Corbyn had a late night last night on Sky last night and he did a very good job of showing why he should be prime minister," she told the BBC a short time ago.

"Our figures add up. We are investing in our young people's futures... We can afford it and I would say we can't afford not to."

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A combined audience of 2.9m viewers tuned in to watch Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn in their first live TV audience Q&A, initial ratings indicate.

Monday's political debate peaked at 3.3m and a 15% share at 21:30, with an average audience of 415,000 on Sky News.

Ratings could increase for the debate once catch-up audiences are taken into account.

A similar format between David Cameron and Ed Miliband achieved an average of 2.9m viewers in a slightly later time slot during the 2015 general election campaign.

Theresa May's former cabinet colleague George Osborne has taken aim at her in an editorial for the paper he now edits, the London Evening Standard.

Mr Osborne has also tweeted that there is "a strange absence of Brexit from this election".

Followers of the election campaign could be forgiven for thinking that Brexit is mentioned all the time but Mr Osborne argues that voters need answers on the negotiation process.

"High-handed British arrogance and low leaks from the Europeans have poisoned the dialogue before it's even started," the article reads.

"Anyone who cares about Britain's role in the world will have been dismayed this weekend to see the German chancellor lump Brexit Britain with Trump's America, and claim that neither are reliable partners any more."

The paper claims that while "the public shudders at the thought of Jeremy Corbyn representing the country abroad", Brexit has "hardly featured in what was supposed to be the Brexit election".

UKIP leader Paul Nuttall is predicting that his party will win seats at the general election, even though they had no MPs at the end of the last Parliament.

In an interview on BBC local radio, he says he's hopeful the party can get "over the line in a number of seats", although he's not saying where or how many.

UKIP are standing in around half the constituencies they contested in 2015, but Mr Nuttall says they're campaigning strongly in seats where they have councillors.

He's rejecting suggestions that the party is in decline, and is predicting that at the end of 2018, UKIP "will be bigger in terms of membership and higher in the polls than it's ever been before".