BBC Newsbeat

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Labour's Sarah Champion defends her party from accusations that they had smeared Theresa May over the terror attacks.

The party has been looking at Mrs May's record as home secretary and latterly prime minister, she says, and that's different.

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The debate opens on the topic of extremism in the wake of the Manchester and London terror attacks.

Nadhim Zahawi, an Iraqi-born Conservative, says this country has "not done integration well".

He says it's time to call out those people in our communities who show misogyny, intolerance - "and we have to come together to do it".

The Labour leader tells a rally in Birmingham that the government had underestimated his party.

With his voice getting increasingly gravelly, and the crowd getting increasingly enthusiastic, Mr Corbyn pushes on, hailing the contents of Labour's manifesto.

I'm determined that every youngster should get a chance to go to university so we will end student fees, he says. "They achieve for themselves but also for all of us."

Of the manifesto, he says people say this is a wish-list.

"It's not. It's a programme, it's an agenda - we are going to carry it out."

Jeremy Corbyn is on stage now and starts off with shout-outs to many of the UK's towns before an enthusiastic audience.

He tells them he has six more rallies tomorrow. "We are going all out to win this election."

This election was called in an atmosphere of the government saying we are strong and stable. They imagined everything was going to be all over by June 8, he said.

"But they underestimated us... and the campaign we would mount," he said

"The turning point was when we produced this", he says, holding up Labour's manifesto.

In Birmingham, the BBC's Bernard Achampong says comedian Steve Coogan and Clean Bandit's Elisabeth Troy (pictured) are keeping 3,000-or-so people entertained, as they wait for Jeremy Corbyn to take to the stage.

Theresa May goes on to explain in her Slough speech what she meant by "enough is enough" when speaking after the London terror attack:

• Longer prison sentences for those convicted of terror offences

• Making it easier for authorities to deport foreign terror suspects
• Doing more to restrict the freedom of movement of terror suspects when we have enough evidence to know they are a threat but not enough to prosecute them
• If the human rights laws stop us from doing it, we'll change our laws, she says

Mrs May warns that if the Conservatives don't get the seats they need that would mean Diane Abbott in the Home Office, John McDonnell in the Treasury and the strings being pulled by Nicola Sturgeon. Boos go up from the crowd. Boris Johnson also had a dig at Ms Abbott in his speech - and got a similarly loud reaction from the Tory faithful in Slough.

Theresa May starts by thanking Boris Johnson for his "rip-roaring introduction".

She says serving in government is "a huge honour and a great responsibility".

She goes on to lay out her vision for the country under her leadership - she says she wants to create a country where no-one is left behind, where how far you go depends on you and your hard work and a country which is global and outward-looking.

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is Theresa May's warm-up man at her speech in Slough, geeing up the crowds with some Jeremy Corbyn bashing.

He says Mr Corbyn is "effectively one of life's protesters, who's never been a minister or a shadow minister," in contrast to Theresa May.

Her name is met with great whoops from Tory supporters.