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Mr Corbyn refuses to confirm if free movement will be included in the party manifesto on Thursday, saying only there will be "a lot of movement".

"We cannot exist in isolation, there has to be migration into Britain in order to maintain our economy," he says.

Asked if he agrees with the Labour conference motion to "maintain and extend" free movement between the EU and UK, he says he believes in the principle of reuniting families to which it referred.

"No Labour government led by me will bring in a hostile environment," he says.

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Mr Corbyn is asked about Mr Blackford's push for an independence referendum in Scotland.

"I can't give him that commitment," Mr Corbyn says.

"I do not want to spend the first year [in government] on an independence referendum.

"They will have the opportunity with the Labour government in Westminster.

"They will see a fair allocation of resources in Westminster.

"The people of Scotland will see the benefits."

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is asked whether he wants to leave the EU or not if he becomes prime minister.

He replies that his party will "put that choice to the British people".

"We will negotiate within three months a credible option of leave and put that alongside Remain in a referendum," he says.

"I want a close relationship with the EU in the future, we will put that to the British people and they will decide."

"I do think we’ve got to settle this and we’ve got to do this by agreeing a relationship with Europe either in or out," he says.

Mr Corbyn says he wants to fight the election on the "credible options", saying that is the "adult way to deal with the whole thing".

Read more here on what Labour's Brexit plan is.

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Mr Raab says "people can have confidence" that the Tories will deliver Brexit, and says they will achieve a "best-in-class free trade agreement".

Andrew Marr says that the EU has said a deal can be achieved by the end of next year but the UK needs to agree to a "level playing field" with EU regulations.

Mr Raab says the political declaration already agreed with the EU is clear. "We will have control of our regulations," he says. "We’re not going to align ourselves to EU rules."

On fishing, he says foreign boats will have the "optimum" amount of access to UK waters, not necessarily less.

Mr Marr challenges that Boris Johnson resigned as Foreign Secretary in 2018 over Theresa May's deal because it would allow the EU to "plunder" Scottish waters and that this deal is "word-for-word" the same on this issue.

Mr Raab says the new deal does not hand control to the EU. "We will be an independent coastal state," he says.

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Mr Raab is asked about a report from the Observer this morning, external that Home Secretary Priti Patel has intervened to block a recent rescue operation to bring British orphans back to the UK from Syria.

"You’re relying on a leaked report," he says.

"The government speaks with one voice.

We’ve made it very clear when you have unaccompanied children, of course you would seek to repatriate them."

He adds that there are "huge challenges" faced to do this.

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Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab is being quizzed on the Conservative's immigration proposals.

On the failure of the Conservative Party to meet its previous pledge of reducing immigration to tens of thousands of people a year, Mr Raab says he "agrees we've got to restore public confidence".

He says immigration "can bring huge benefits to this country" but his party thinks "fairness is important" - for example with the increase of the NHS surcharge - the payment charged to migrants to use the service. This would be raised from £400 to £625 a year.

When asked what numbers he wants to reduce immigration to, he says: "We are not going to fix on an arbitrary target."

"By exercising a points system you bring it down year-by-year," he says.

His words on an immigration target echo security minister Brandon Lewis, who earlier told Sky's Sophy Ridge that there would be "no arbitrary targets" for immigration.

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A referendum on independence is not the only SNP demand, Mr Blackford says.

The party also wants a commission to investigate poverty and inequality in the UK, saying: "Austerity has really hurt."

He also says that the SNP would demand that the Trident nuclear weapons system is scrapped.

"Here is an opportunity to get rid of Trident and to invest in conventional defence," he says.

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Mr Blackford says that whoever is the next prime minister will have to listen to Scottish voters who support another independence referendum.

"If you’re going to tell them their votes don’t count it puts us in a dangerous position," he tells the Andrew Marr Show.

Asked about refusals from both Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson, Mr Blackford says: "They may say no today but let’s see after the election."

Earlier on Sky News's Sophy Ridge on Sunday, Labour's Jon Ashworth was questioned on the referendum issue.

He says "We are not offering a referendum on Scottish independence" but said it is "up to the people of Scotland".

But Mr Ashworth says he is "confident" of a Labour government in Scotland at the next Holyrood elections.

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The Andrew Marr Show has started this morning's series of interviews with SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford.

He is asked about the SNP's legal challenge against ITV over its exclusion from the broadcaster's general election debate.

ITV plans to show a head-to-head debate between Conservative leader Boris Johnson and his Labour counterpart Jeremy Corbyn next week.

Mr Blackford tells the programme that the SNP should be represented in the debate as "many people will make their minds up" based on it and it is an "issue of fairness".

"Other people have to be represented," he says.

"We may be in a minority situation," he says, adding that it is "right" to hear views of smaller parties.

The Liberal Democrats have also launched legal action against ITV over the 19 November debate.

Mr Ashworth repeatedly declines to say whether Labour wants to see immigration go up or down, saying: "A Labour government is not going to set an arbitrary target, they’re not credible."

He says "every general election I've fought" the Conservatives promise to reduce immigration. "Have they ever delivered? Have they heck."

Labour wants a "balanced approach to immigration", Mr Ashworth says, saying hospital trusts need to be able to recruit qualified workers from the EU and elsewhere.

"Tories are imposing a nurses tax on European nurses who want to come here", he says, adding that it is not "a sustainable, credible approach to staffing the NHS".

Mr Ashworth says there is a shortage of 100,000 NHS staff, and existing staff have worked a million unpaid hours to fill the gap.

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Labour's shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth is setting out the party's plans for free dental check-ups on Sophy Ridge on Sunday.

He says they will scrap the £22 charge for a check-up, scale and polish and X-rays where necessary.

"We do have an oral health crisis in this country", he says, adding that people are buying dentistry kits from pound shops, doing their own fillings and even trying to pull out their teeth with pliers.

He says 50% of people have not been to a dentist in the last year and 100,000 people each year go to hospital due to lack of dental care.

Challenged about the party's opposition to privatisation when most dentists are private contractors, he says he is "reversing the privatisation seen in recent years, we're not talking about ripping up fundamentals of the NHS".

Dentists and GPs have always been privately run, he says, but the party wants to end "wasteful, bureaucratic tendering".

Mr Lewis is questioned about newspaper reports that Home Secretary Priti Patel blocked a rescue operation to bring home British orphans and unaccompanied children in Syrian refugee camps.

He says: "I do not recognise a situation where I’m aware at any point of the Home Secretary blocking any kind of rescue mission."

Children in these circumstances, many of whom were forcibly taken into territories held by the Islamic State group, are dealt with on a "case-by-case" basis, he says.

The take into account "what’s right for the safety and security of those children, their families and of course our forces who would be involved in any situation like this".

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Conservative Security Minister Brandon Lewis is on Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday, outlining the party's plans on immigration.

He says EU migrants arriving in the UK in future will have to work for five years before being able to claim benefits, describing it as "fair and equal".

But questioned on what will happen to immigration numbers, he says "we will not set arbitrary targets".

The government has previously failed over many years to meet its pledge to reduce immigration to tens of thousands of people a year.

"Immigration will fall under a Conservative government," he says.

Rob Watson
BBC political correspondent

Despite many politicians, political commentators, analysts and journalists (including me) saying this is one of the most important elections since World War Two, one can't help feeling it just hasn't caught fire yet.

It could be because the weather's been rubbish, because people aren't inspired by the choices, or perhaps because there are still four weeks to go to the 12 December general election. Whatever the reason, this campaign has yet to burst into life.

None of which is to say lots hasn't been happening: Candidates have been knocking on doors; party leaders are touring the country and millions of people are receiving targeted political ads, via Facebook and other social media.

Read the analysis of the week's campaigning

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And the Conservatives are talking about immigration, unveiling their plans for the system after Brexit.

They say it will mean people from the EU and other countries will be treated equally in future, so the UK can attract the “brightest and best”.

But they also intend to charge immigrants more to use the NHS and to introduce new rules on claiming benefits.

The Lib Dems are pledging a “fair, effective immigration system”, with plans to resettle 10,000 unaccompanied refugee children.

Labour is expected to detail its immigration plans in its manifesto on Thursday.

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Just because it’s Sunday it doesn't mean the parties are taking a day of rest. There’s a fresh round of policy announcements this morning.

First off, Labour is planning to offer free dental checks in England, saying it’s the “first step” to making all dentistry free at the point of use. (Health care is devolved, with only Scotland so far offering free check-ups.)

The party says the £450m-a-year policy is needed because many people can't afford regular care, and end up at A&E needing emergency dental treatment.

Leading dentists have welcomed the move but say staff shortages also need to be addressed.

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Good morning and welcome to today’s general election live page. We’ll be bringing you coverage of this morning’s big political interviews as well as all the other developments in the campaign.

On Sky News from 08:30 GMT, Sophy Ridge will be grilling Conservative Security Minister Brandon Lewis, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth, and Green Party co-leader Sian Berry.

And on BBC One at 09:00 there’s an extended Andrew Marr Show, featuring Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab and the SNP’s Westminster leader Ian Blackford.