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The BBC's Sima Kotecha is with the Liberal Democrats in St Albans.

This is an area which voted Remain in last year's EU referendum and leader Tim Farron has been talking about the "detrimental effect on businesses that Brexit will have".

The "core" of the party's message is a promised referendum on Brexit but the Lib Dems also propose legalising cannabis and admitting more refugees to the UK.

"They've dubbed themselves the anti-Brexit party," Sima says, but this has had "a mixed reception on the doorstep".

Some voters think they're "banging on" about last year's issue.

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"The masochistic marathon is on" with party leaders trying to prove that "they're hard enough", says BBC political correspondent Chris Mason.

He is on the road with Labour and says Jeremy Corbyn's challenge is to "turn depth of support at rallies into the breadth of support to be prime minister".

Labour feels it has had a good couple of weeks and Mr Corbyn clearly enjoys campaigning, Chris adds.

Shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth admits he's never had a proper job - but says having an alcoholic father has given him "some experiences of life".

Hailing his working class background, he argues that working in politics is still a job, adding: "We've still got to pay the bills, pay the mortgage, I've still got to get the kids from school and get them breakfast in the morning."

He tells BBC's Victoria Derbyshire in her "van share" segment that his mum was a barmaid and his father was croupier in a casino.

"A lot of my life was spent looking after father, who was an alcoholic," he says, recalling that as a teenager he would return home at weekends to find the fridge full of "big bottles of white wine and cans of beer - there was no food in there - I'd have to go and sort it all out myself".

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BBC Breakfast quizzed Jonathan Bartley, co-leader of the Green Party in England and Wales, about the party's policies.

The Greens are backing a second referendum on the terms of Brexit because "this is the biggest decision that we'll take since the Second World War", he said.

"It's only right that, if we're going to give a ratification vote to MPs in the House of Commons, that it should go to the British people."

Mr Bartley says UKIP has shifted "the whole direction of the country", with the Conservatives attracting the votes of EU leavers now, and that the Greens have "shifted the Labour Party in a different direction".

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The Green Party's co-leader, Jonathan Bartley, was on BBC Breakfast earlier, and said Theresa May had shown "pretty weak leadership" with her comments on terrorism and human rights.

"After terrorist atrocities... there is always a tendency to have knee-jerk reactions," he said but added: "We also know that those freedoms are the ones that we need to be protecting."

This is not a human rights issue but a resourcing issue, Mr Bartley insists.

According to the Met Office, external, heavy rain in Wales and south-west England will move into central and northern England, then into Scotland and Northern Ireland, followed by showers. The South East may well stay dry.

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has criticised Theresa May for saying she would change human rights laws if they hampered a crackdown on suspected terrorists.

Speaking on his first campaign stop of the day in Glasgow, Mr Corbyn also attacked the prime minister for cutting police numbers.

Pledging that Labour would put more officers on the street, he said:

Mr Corbyn said Labour would seek to reassure people by supporting the police and security services and by looking at the funding of terrorist groups and what he called "the ungoverned spaces" - such as Libya.

He added that voters would tomorrow face a choice between five more years of "Tory cuts, longer waiting lists, under-funded schools" - and "hope under Labour", that will see young people and pensioners "properly treated".

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Theresa May said last week that Brexit was the “defining issue of the election” but, partly due to the recent terror attacks in Manchester and London, focus has shifted away from the EU.

Remain campaigner Gina Miller thinks people "still don't know what Brexit means".

And Leave campaigner John Longworth criticises the prime minister for emphasizing a free-trade agreement as a sign of success or failure in negotiations.

"A free-trade arrangement is just the cherry on the icing on the cake," he says.

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The BBC's assistant political editor is asked what he thinks the election result might be.

"You may as well ask Mystic Meg," Norman Smith answers.

"Honestly, almost anything could happen," he says - these are "volatile" times.

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Norman Smith says Labour's Diane Abbott has been "a little bit unsteady" in some of her recent media appearances.

However, the announcement that shadow home office minister Lyn Brown is standing in for her "suggests Ms Abbott really might be quite ill... and could be out of action for quite a while".

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"There's just frenetic activity today" as the election campaign draws to a close, says BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith.

Theresa May began the day in London's Smithfield market - "not the place to go if you're squeamish about coming face-to-face with a cow's carcass first thing in the morning".

Jeremy Corbyn has been in Glasgow, then travelling down through Wales and ending in his "home patch" of Islington in North London later.

And Tim Farron is "dotting around to various key target seats for the Lib Dems".

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BBC Scotland editor Sarah Smith says the Scottish Conservatives are hoping to "win votes by dividing the electorate - not left-right but nationalist-unionist".

Labour, which went into the 2015 election with 41 seats in Scotland but came out of it with only one, will be looking for "signs of recovery".

Scottish Labour risks being fourth behind the Liberal Democrats in terms of seats, which would be "an extraordinary turnaround" for a party once dominant in Scotland, Sarah adds.

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Terrorism has "dominated the last few days when the parties would rather be cementing their core messages", says BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg.

However, Theresa May has been able to "return to some of the things she was talking about in the Tory manifesto and some of the things she wanted to do as home secretary, if circumstances had not got in the way".

In many ways, the focus on security is a chance for the former home secretary to "go back to her specialist subject".

Jeremy Corbyn, meanwhile, has been attracting huge crowds to Labour rallies, such as in Birmingham on Tuesday evening: "We've not seen a political event like that for many, many years. It was like Glastonbury."

Mr Corbyn appeals to many voters but there is a "fear in Labour circles, privately" about the party falling back rather than making gains, Laura says.

With UKIP in retreat, "no sign at all of a Lib Dem resurgence" and the Greens not making advances, "we are likely to see the biggest combined share for the two main parties that we have seen for years... there's going to be something rather retro about this result".

The exceptions will be Scotland and Northern Ireland.

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Jeremy Corbyn has asked Labour's shadow police minister Lyn Brown to stand in for Diane Abbott during her period of ill health.

Ms Abbott called in sick to an interview on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour yesterday - and the Labour leader confirmed she had been unwell for the past couple of days.

Ms Brown is Labour's candidate for West Ham.