Labour's shadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey does not rule out the prospect of the Labour party campaigning to leave the EU in a second referendum.

She tells Sky's Sophy Ridge that Labour will take a decision when it sees the final deal, to ensure it is "credible".

She adds Labour would want to give the public "a final say".

She says: "We will negotiate a sensible deal with EU that puts our economy, working life and standards first, and we will put that deal to a public vote."

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Shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey says inequality in the UK is "quite frankly akin to Victorian times".

She tells Sky's Sophy Ridge that it must recognised that there are "fundamental problems in our economy" that need to be addressed.

Theresa May's revelation that the naughtiest thing she's ever done was running through fields of wheat made for one of the lighter highlights of the 2017 election campaign.

Asked the same question by Sky's Sophy Ridge, Boris Johnson refused to be drawn: "I'm not saying the naughtiest thing I've ever done."

"Because I would improvise an answer which I have not cleared with my handlers and I would bitterly regret it."

"I'm not going to extemporise some answer," he says.

"I think running through a field of wheat—" he begins, but decides best not to finish the sentence.

But he promises to give an answer in future if he can find something "both interesting and not terminally politically damaging".

Asked about his previous interview with the BBC in which the prime minister ruled out a pact with Brexit Party's Nigel Farage, Mr Johnson tells Sky: "I've ruled out a pact with everybody because I don't think it's sensible to do that."

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The only way out of the EU now is to "go with the deal we've got", Mr Johnson tells Sky News.

He says negotiating a future trade deal with the EU should be "extremely simple".

"We start our negotiations in a state of perfect alignment. We already have zero tariffs and zero quotas," he says.

"So the negotiations in principle should be extremely simple."

"I see no reason whatever, why we should extend the transition period," he adds.

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Prime Minister Boris Johnson says it was a matter of "deep regret" that he did not deliver on a promise to leave the EU on 31 October.

Speaking in a pre-recorded interview to Sophy Ridge on Sky News, Mr Johnson was asked if he was sorry for missing the deadline. "Yes, absolutely," he said.

The Andrew Marr Show

The Andrew Marr Show on BBC One will feature Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage, Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak. It starts at 0900.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is appearing on Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme, as is shadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson and Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland's First Minister and SNP leader.

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In another announcement on Saturday, the government called a halt to shale gas extraction - or fracking - in England amid concerns about earthquakes.

The fracking industry has faced fierce opposition from both communities and environmental groups.

Business Secretary Andrea Leadsom said it may be temporary - imposed "until and unless" extraction is proved safe.

But opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted, external that the pause was an "election stunt" and that Labour would ban fracking permanently.

Read the full story here.

The freeze in benefit payments is to come to an end next year, the government has confirmed.

Working-age benefits such as universal credit and jobseeker's allowance will rise by 1.7% from April 2020, the Department for Work and Pensions said.

It ends former Tory chancellor George Osborne's decision to introduce a freeze from April 2016.

Labour called it a "cynically-timed" announcement ahead of the election.

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In an interview with the Sunday Times, external, Nigel Farage has claimed he was twice offered a peerage by the Conservatives.

The Brexit Party leader told the paper the Tory Party tried to "buy" his backing with "Christmas baubles" but he said: "We won't be bought."

In an interview with the BBC earlier this week, Boris Johnson rejected the idea of entering a pact with the Brexit Party.

Let's have a look at how the parties are shaping up in the run-up to December's poll:

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What do voters care about more, the NHS or Brexit?

How does voting work? And what happened at the last election in 2017?

Read our super simple guide for all you need to know about December's poll.

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More than 270,000 people under 35 registered to vote in the first few days since MPs agreed to hold a general election.

Currently, they count for the majority of all new voter registrations.

Some politicians will be hoping - or fearing - that this could be the start of a so-called "youthquake" of young voters becoming turned on by politics, and potentially disrupting the electoral playing field.

But dig into the numbers, and it isn't all as it seems.

Read the analysis in full here.

The UK might not be entering election mode officially until Wednesday, but the parties are already vying for coverage and making their pitches to the electorate.

Labour has promised to make all new-build homes "zero carbon" within three years, in an effort to curb housing shortages and tackle climate change. The Tories said the plan was "unrealistic" and would slow house building. Read the story here.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon called for "Scotland's future to be put into Scotland's hands" at a rally in Glasgow. Read the story here.

Meanwhile, the Lib Dems made a formal complaint after ITV said its head-to-head election debate would only include Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn. Baroness Brinton said Ms Swinson's exclusion risks "misrepresenting the current political reality". Read the story here.

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The Conservative slogan "Get Brexit done" suggests a quick and easy path to leaving the European Union, allowing the UK to focus on other things apart from Brexit. But it's not that simple.

So what would getting Brexit done actually look like?

Find out here.

As the UK heads for its third election in four years, here's a look back at some of the things that got us here:

Unsurprisingly, many of the papers lead on political stories:

Check out the rest of today's front pages here.

Welcome to our live coverage, as we gear up for Sunday’s political programmes this morning.

The election campaign officially begins on Wednesday, but the parties are already setting out some of their key messages and priorities.

We’ll keep you updated here on all of the latest developments as they emerge.