Summary

  • Business is the focus with 24 days to go until the general election

  • Lib Dems and SNP lose legal challenge against ITV over election debate

  • Jo Swinson addresses the CBI conference and says cancelling Brexit would boost investment

  • She says the Lib Dems would scrap business rates if they win power

  • Earlier, Boris Johnson told the event he would end the Brexit "uncertainty"

  • But he said the Tories would postpone a planned cut to corporation tax

  • Jeremy Corbyn told the CBI Labour was not "anti-business"

  • He also announced plans for 320,000 "climate apprentices"