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Around 100 protesters gathered outside the Burns the Bread bakery in Glastonbury, Somerset, anticipating the arrival of prime minister Boris Johnson.

They included members of Extinction Rebellion, the Labour Party and anti-Brexit campaigners.

But Mr Johnson cancelled his planned visit and went to the firm's bakery around five miles away in Wells, instead. He served sausage rolls and pasties to customers, and said about the protest: "There were lots of crusties there - more crusty than your loaves."

One protester in Glastonbury said he was not surprised at the change of plans.

"He has got no clue what any of these people feel and what their daily experiences are like. It's not surprising he may not turn up," he said.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn clashes with a heckler during a public meeting in Dundee.

A man stands up and shouts towards Mr Corbyn about a second Scottish independence referendum at the event.

Mr Corbyn says he will return to the matter later, but the man continues to shout out.

"The democracy is that we have a public meeting where we conduct it in a reasonable manner and those who wish to say something at the end are, of course, free to do so," Mr Corbyn adds.

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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has confirmed he won't stand down any more candidates to help the Tories win a majority in the election.

Speaking in Hull, Mr Farage says if the Conservatives "showed some reciprocity", more Brexit Party supporters would be likely to support the Tories in the 317 seats in which Brexit Party candidates will not be sitting.

Earlier this week, Mr Farage ditched plans to take on the Tories in those 317 seats - after what he said was Boris Johnson's "shift of position" on Brexit.

Mr Farage also accuses the Tories of only caring about getting a Conservative majority in Parliament - and not about securing a pro-Leave majority.

The deadline to register as a candidate in the election is 16:00 GMT today.

In four weeks' time this school in Morecombe, Lancashire, will be a polling station - so its nativity play has to be rearranged. For the 600 pupils it means a day off, for parents it means extra childcare.

"It is mad anyway at that time of year," Keith Wright, Westgate School's head teacher, tells the BBC's Jon Kay. "[The pupils] are getting tired at that stage, we try to make it as routine as possible."

Elsewhere it is the voting booths that are being rearranged, as events like pantomimes prove immovable (oh yes, they do...).

Some 50,000 polling stations are used at a general election but the timing this year means some venues will have to cancel or reschedule planned events.

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The big news this morning was that the latest NHS figures show more patients than ever before are on hospital waiting lists in England and delays in A&E have hit their worst level since records began.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said his government has "done the biggest investment in the NHS in modern times", while Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said the figures are "disgraceful".

Elsewhere on the election campaign trail:

• Conservative Party leader Mr Johnson has been in south-west England visiting a school. His party is promising to reduce "immigration overall" to the UK after Brexit if it wins the election
• Mr Johnson has cancelled a planned visit to a bakery in Glastonbury due to a protest
• Labour leader Mr Corbyn is in Scotland and his party has promised to close the gender pay gap by 2030 if it gets into power
• Lib Dem candidate Luciana Berger has set out her party's plan for equality and human rights - and, with Lib Dem colleague Chuka Umunna, criticised their former party, Labour, on its internal anti-Semtism row. More detail on that ongoing row here
• Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said his party will "fight Labour in every seat"
• And outgoing European Council President Donald Tusk has urged British voters not to "give up" on stopping Brexit

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The World at One
BBC Radio 4

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The NHS has been one of the items at the top of the election agenda today, after the news that waiting times have hit their worst recorded level.

John McGall from York says his life was put "on hold" for three and a half years as he waited for heart surgery.

He tells Radio 4's World at One he was first told about a heart problem in 2016. He went in and out of hospital several times after that - and the heart valve operation he needed was put back again and again. All the while, he was unable to work.

Three weeks ago Mr McGall finally received the operation.

"The NHS has saved my life... but they've also ruined it as well," he says. "It does need to change."

NHS Providers deputy chief executive Saffron Cordery tells the programme more investment is needed.

BBC Politics Live
BBC2's lunchtime political programme

The Conservatives have pledged to "reduce immigration overall". The party is planning a "points-based" system, based on skills and other factors, which would apply to EU and non-EU migrants.

Shadow employment minister Laura Pidcock told Politics Live that Labour's immigration policy would "move us away from decades of scapegoating of immigrants", and would be based on "appealing to fears of people rather than hopes".

However, Ms Pidcock did not say whether freedom of movement for EU nationals wanting to come to the UK would continue under a Labour government.

A motion passed at the Labour party conference this year pledged to "maintain and extend freedom of movement".

Ms Pidcock said that the party's exact policy would be set out in Labour's manifesto, but emphasised that the exploitation of both British and migrant workers was the issue, rather than immigration itself.

"Whether you're a British worker or a migrant worker, you will not be exploited under a Labour government," she said.

Referring to the fact that no representative of the Conservative Party appeared on the programme, Daily Mirror political editor Kevin Maguire says: "If the Conservatives today have somebody who would give a strong sale that would stand up to public scrutiny, they would be sitting on a chair there.

"The fact they haven't turned up tells you they know what they're saying, certainly on migration, just doesn't stack up."

Professor Sir John Curtice
Polling expert

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Leading polling expert Sir John Curtice says Boris Johnson is a bit like a supremely expensive vase - valuable unless it breaks.

The professor of politics at Strathclyde University says the prime minister could be an asset for the Tories but there are risks given that he is the "the most unpopular new prime minister in polling history".

Speaking at a briefing for journalists, Sir John says: "Boris you might want to regard as like a Ming vase. He's potentially a really valuable asset - you just want to make sure he doesn't fall on the floor."

Porcelain items from China's Ming dynasty (1368-1644) have been known to sell for millions of pounds each.

Sir John adds that next month's election could be seen as an "unpopularity contest" for both Mr Johnson and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

He points out that while Mr Corbyn might not be "the world's best party leader", he certainly enjoys, and tends to do well on, the campaign trail.

Alex Forsyth
Political correspondent

Boris Johnson has pulled out of a planned campaign visit to a bakery in Glastonbury due to an unexpected protest at the venue.

Mr Johnson was due to visit Burns the Bread as part of his trip to the South West, but plans were changed after a group including climate change activists, anti-Brexit protesters and someone holding a Labour placard gathered at the only entrance to the business.

It’s understood the visit was cancelled due to security concerns on the advice of police.

Mr Johnson is expected to continue the rest of the planned itinerary.

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It's been a morning of nursery rhymes and small mammals for the prime minister, who has been visiting a school near Taunton in Somerset.

He held Rosie the rabbit (who he said was "very well behaved") in a classroom at West Monkton Primary School, and sang a song about Peter Rabbit with pupils - but notably did not partake in the corresponding "bunny ears" hand action.

Mr Johnson suggested singing The Wheels On The Bus, taking the opportunity to joke: "The wheels are staying very much on the bus."

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He was accompanied by Rebecca Pow, the Conservative candidate seeking re-election for Taunton Deane, who joked that the children were better singers than the prime minister.

Mr Johnson revealed he cannot solve a Rubik's Cube "for toffee" while watching a pupil complete it in around two minutes, and - while talking about the children's favourite books - asked whether they had the Incredible Hulk.

One child shouted "boobies" while looking at a copy of the book, to which Mr Johnson replied: "Those aren't boobies, they are muscles."

Chants of "Boris out" could be heard from outside the schools, where Labour, Lib Dem and climate change activists had gathered.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson tells the BBC the A&E waiting time figures released today- which are the worst since records began -“is basically caused by the huge demand that there is on the NHS".

He adds: "And that's why now in the last three months, we have done the biggest investment in the NHS in modern times, and £34bn is going in.

"We want everybody to spend less time waiting in A&E, less time waiting to see their GP.”

He goes on to criticise Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his "rival proposals" that will cause an "economic disaster" and "will make it impossible for us in the long term to fund the NHS".

BBC Politics Live
BBC2's lunchtime political programme

The deputy chair of a local Conservative association has resigned over what he believes are issues with Islamophobia in the party.

Kyle Pedley, who worked for the Stourbridge local association, told BBC 2’s Politics Live he has resigned because of a “series of issues” he had encountered which he "just could not align with his own personal convictions".

“In my first meeting as an officer, a selection meeting, we interviewed a candidate, he put forward a very compelling case, he spoke about his conservative principles, his background, his experience in the ward he was going for as a council candidate. As soon as his two minute pitch ended, he was faced with a barrage of questioning which was factored around one thing and one thing alone, and that was his religion and his race," he said.

The chairman of the Conservative Association in Stourbridge said he was “mystified” at Mr Pedley’s resignation and does not remember or recall the details of the selection meeting as described by Mr Pedley.

Politics Live has spoken to another member of the Stourbridge Association who is a Muslim, and he said he never witnessed any discrimination within the party.

Baroness Warsi, the former co-chair of the Conservatives who has pushed for an inquiry into Islamophobia in the party, said she was “shocked” but “not surprised” by the allegations.

“This is really a reflection of the kind of things that I’ve been hearing now over four years, happening in associations up and down the country.”

When asked to respond, a Conservative Party spokesperson said: “The Conservative Party will never stand by when it comes to prejudice and discrimination of any kind. Serious allegations such as these are always investigated thoroughly, which is testament to the seriousness with which we take such issues.

“Our complaints process is rightly a confidential one and there are a wide range of sanctions including suspension and expulsion which are applied on a case-by-case basis.”

Home Secretary Priti Patel has written to her Labour counterpart to express concern over the opposition's plans for immigration.

In a letter to Diane Abbott, Ms Patel says she was "somewhat surprised" by newspaper reports that Ms Abbott was "distancing" herself from a Labour conference policy to "maintain and extend" freedom of movement.

Ms Patel says Ms Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, have previously expressed support for an "open borders" policy.

She says Labour conference, where the party's members decide its policy platform, passed policies which "reject any immigration system based on incomes, migrants' utility to businesses, and number caps/targets," as well as an "unconditional right to family reunion."

Ms Patel says if these policies were implemented, net migration would treble, placing "enormous strain" on public services. She adds that "national security could be imperilled."

However, the home secretary says in recent weeks different Labour politicians have given contradictory statements about the party's immigration plans.

Ms Patel finishes the letter by asking for Ms Abbott to "come clean" on Labour's plans before election day.

Labour's leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has said extending freedom of movement rights to people outside the EU is not Labour policy.

BBC Politics Live
BBC2's lunchtime political programme

Yorkshire Post editor James Mitchinson says that people affected by flooding need more investment and assistance to deal with the fall out.

Mr Mitchinson was also critical of Boris Johnson's response, saying: "He should have been chairing a COBRA meeting a week ago, he should have been taking control of the scale of the response."

He also points out that the areas affected are the kind of constituencies which the Conservatives were hoping to win from Labour in the election.

Mr Mitchinson says that one person affected by the floods had told him "the prime minister has responded to the challenge of the floods like one of Lord Sugar's worst possible apprentices."

Reality Check
and BBC Monitoring

The Brexit Party is now running dozens of Facebook adverts aimed at Labour held seats – with the constituencies named in the ads ranging from Cambridge to Caerphilly.

They include the same message: “Only The Brexit Party can defeat Corbyn's Labour and STOP a Second Referendum.”

The Brexit Party has been relatively quiet on the Facebook ad front recently so this is a substantial batch.

These come after Nigel Farage announced that the Brexit Party would not be standing in Conservative held seats. Before this Brexit Party Facebook ads had been criticising Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal.

A video accompanying the latest adverts claims that Jeremy Corbyn has “betrayed” five million Labour leave voters.

Reality Check has looked into this claim before.

We found that most estimates for the number of Labour leave voters fall between three and four million.

A link is also provided to a website encouraging people to register their name, email and postcode to pledge support.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says the UK won't be a "second-rate player" after Brexit.

Responding to comments from outgoing European Council President Donald Tusk, he says: "This is a big country, an important country and trading partner and I look forward to leading a government that will be working with others around the world."

He adds that he looks forward to discussing the comments with Mr Tusk.

Kirsty Blackman, SNP candidate for Aberdeen North and economy spokesperson for the party, says the SNP wants to "encourage" immigration.

"We would like to encourage EU nationals to come here. We would like very much for freedom of movement to continue," she tells the BBC.

"We've got the social and cultural benefits of having so many people come and be welcomed in Scotland, but also the economic benefits, so every EU national that lives here adds on £10,400 to government revenue every year."

The comments come as Home Secretary Priti Patel pledged that the Conservatives would cut immigration overall if they win the 12 December election.

Ms Blackman went on to say: "If we end up in a situation where if we cut immigration, government revenue goes down and we've got less money to fund the NHS for example.

"If we encourage more people into Scotland, that will increase revenues."

She also criticised salary thresholds for those wanting to live and work in the UK, saying that they were "arbitrary".

BBC Politics Live
BBC2's lunchtime political programme

Referring to today's announcement that several key NHS England targets have been missed, Financial Times political correspondent Laura Hughes says: "These figures coming out now is a disaster for the Conservatives.

"Labour want to talk about the NHS because they poll well on this issue."

Labour yesterday announced new plans to spend more on the NHS in England than the Tories if it wins the general election.