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The row over the selection of a Labour candidate who shared an image of Theresa May with a gun being held to her head continues.

Kate Osborne, a North Tyneside councillor, was selected to stand for Labour in Jarrow over the weekend.

But in 2017 she shared a mocked-up image on social media of Samuel L Jackson holding a gun to the former prime minister's head - a parody of a scene from the film Pulp Fiction.

Ms Osborne has apologised, but even before her selection for the Jarrow seat a number of female Labour MPs had condemned the post and asked for the party's NEC to reconsider her selection in the seat.

Stephen Hepburn, who has represented Jarrow for Labour since 1997, was not selected to fight the seat after previously being suspended from the party over allegations of sexual harassment - which he denies.

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The Conservatives have been quick to react to Emily Thornberry's round of TV interviews, claiming the party's national security policies are "in chaos".

Defence minister Johnny Mercer says the Labour politician's answers suggest even Jeremy Corbyn's close allies "don't trust" him when it comes to making key foreign policy issues, including the use of force.

Jeremy Corbyn has undoubtedly spent much of his political career speaking out against British military intervention in arenas like Northern Ireland, Iraq and Afghanistan. He's a former chairman of the "Stop the War Coalition" and a former leading light in CND, campaigning against nuclear weapons.

Ms Thornberry insisted, though, that a Labour government would do whatever necessary "to protect our country" if a situation arose that required it.

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• Labour and Tories focus on the armed forces
• Labour says it would improve pay, housing and other support for serving personnel and their families - shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry says they haven't been looked after properly to date. She's pushed hard though over the views of her boss, Jeremy Corbyn, on military interventions
• The Tories say they would end "vexatious" prosecutions of veterans over events from historical conflicts - Defence Secretary Ben Wallace says he can't stop cases already in progress, but will take action on others going forward.
• The Lib Dems offer a £10,000 grant to improve access to education and training for adults in England
• Coming up today - we're expecting to see Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn and Nicola Sturgeon out on the campaign trail
• Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage will also be pushing home his message to voters.

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Labour's shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry says the law doesn't need to change to protect veterans from so-called "vexatious" prosecutions - the existing legal system should do that.

Broadening out the discussion to defence more generally, it's put to Ms Thornberry by presenter Nick Robinson that her boss, Jeremy Corbyn, wants to be prime minister but has never backed the use of Britain's armed forces in conflict.

She insists "Jeremy is not a pacifist", and says while she can't disagree with that assessment of Mr Corbyn's voting record, she personally believes some military interventions like those in Kosovo and Afghanistan were justified.

"Jeremy would do anything to protect our country," she says.

The Labour leader is "incredibly empathetic" when it comes to interacting with servicemen and women, she adds.

Those of you who weren't glued to election news over the weekend might have missed the ding-dong over spending. There was a row after the Conservatives published what they claimed would be the cost of a Labour government over five years.

They said it would add up to £1.2tn, which according to Chancellor Sajid Javid, would leave the UK "on the brink of bankruptcy".

Labour, however, condemned the report as "fake news". The figure was based on costing Jeremy Corbyn's 2017 manifesto and other pledges made since then.

But the Labour Party has yet to publish its 2019 election manifesto, and at least some of the policies proposed at this year's conference are unlikely to be formally adopted.

As our correspondent Iain Watson put it, the Tory document was political rather than financial, designed to frame Labour's plans not as ambitious, but as unaffordable.

Labour's argument is that it's no secret it intends to borrow more than the Tories to invest - but Mr Corbyn's argument is that this would both grow the economy more rapidly and increase the state's assets - not just its liabilities.

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A different focus from the Liberal Democrats on Monday - they're proposing a £10,000 grant for every adult in England to put towards education and training.

The money would go into a "skills wallet" over a period of 30 years, to help with the cost of approved courses.

The party says it would pay for the policy by reversing government cuts to corporation tax - returning the business levy to its 2016 rate of 20%.

Lib Dem business spokesman Sam Gyimah - freshly installed in the role after leaving the Conservatives earlier this year - said his new party wanted to "create a new era of learning".

There have been promises on life-long learning from other parties too.

Labour has proposed a National Education Service, which would be "free at the point of use" and open to all, while the Conservatives have a range of initiatives, including a National Retraining Scheme.

The real world doesn't stop for election campaigns, of course, and there are a couple of interesting economic developments today that could play into the politics.

British Steel - which has been kept running by the government since May when it went into liquidation - looks likely to be rescued by Chinese group Jingye. BBC business editor Simon Jack says it's undoubtedly good news for the thousands of workers employed by the firm, although he says there are always questions about the plans of a foreign investor like this.

Second, we'll get GDP figures for the third quarter and they're expected to show the UK economy grew returning to growth in the third quarter of the year. There had been fears of a potential slide into recession after the economy contracted in the second quarter. The Conservatives, in particular, will surely hail this as good news given they've been the ones in charge.

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Labour, meanwhile, is restating pledges it made in June, external for Armed Forces Day that it would improve support for forces children with better access to schools and dedicated local authority admissions strategies to help with frequent school moves.

The party says its plan to scrap the public sector pay cap will also boost the income of the lowest paid members of the forces.

Jeremy Corbyn says Labour is offering the armed forces "real change with the pay, conditions and respect they deserve".

That will also include, he says, "decent housing" for forces personnel and their families by ending the reliance on the private rented sector.

Mr Corbyn joined Mr Johnson, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson and the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford, in laying wreaths at the Cenotaph to commemorate the Armistice on Remembrance Sunday.

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The defence secretary wants to move the conversation on to plans for current forces personnel. These will include wraparound childcare for military families.

Military veterans will also be guaranteed a job interview for any public sector role they apply for - and there will be a potential tax cut for businesses that employ veterans, under Tory plans.

And the party has also put forward the idea of creating a new Veterans' Railcard, allowing all those who have served in the armed forces a third off rail fares.

Mr Wallace says the Tories will invest in the forces' "most important equipment" - its people.

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Defence Secretary Ben Wallace says the government is not proposing to step in and stop criminal cases currently in progress relating to service personnel.

But he tells Today the current situation is "unfair" and certain lawyers have been "shopping for victims" willing to bring cases against personnel.

He says the Human Rights Act will still be available at a European level for those who believe they have a case, but they will no longer be able to repeatedly use - or as he puts it "abuse" - the UK courts to pursue it - those seeking "vexatious repeat inquests", for example, he says.

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The Conservatives say they would change the law to protect veterans from "vexatious" legal action, if they win the general election. The issue has become particularly controversial when it comes to veterans of the Troubles in Northern Ireland - six soldiers are currently facing prosecution over events that happened there.

Boris Johnson says the party will introduce legislation to ensure the Law of Armed Conflict has primacy and that peacetime laws are not applied to service personnel on military operations.

Under the proposals, the Tories would amend the Human Rights Act so it does not apply to issues - including deaths during the Troubles - that took place before it came into force in 2000.

The Tories are also promising extra childcare for military families and a new railcard for veterans.

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Hi and welcome to our live coverage of Monday on the general election campaign trail. The country goes to the polls on 12 December.

It's an election that was born out of the Brexit impasse, but is about much more than that. Health, education, crime... and today - the armed forces. Monday is also Armistice Day and the two biggest parties are using that backdrop to focus on serving personnel and veterans.

Stick with us and we'll bring you all the news as it happens and all the analysis you need to make sense of it.