It's the Tories' turn to launch their manifesto today but many of the other main parties have already unveiled theirs.

Rarely quick-reads, we have put together these guides to the key policies for each party.

(You can find a link to the full manifesto in each one)

• Labour
• Liberal Democrats
• Plaid Cymru
• Green Party
• Brexit Party

The SNP and the Independent Group are expected to launch theirs next week.

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Boris Johnson has just arrived in Telford to announce his party's manifesto, called "Get Brexit Done: Unleash Britain's Potential".

We won't know the full details until about 14:00 GMT, but we've seen a few of the key points:

• A ruling out of increases in the headline rate of income tax and National Insurance, as well as VAT, for five years
• Raising the National Insurance threshold to £9,500 in 2020, with an ambition to raise it further to £12,500
• Childcare: £250m a year, for at least three years, plus a £250m capital spending boost for "wraparound" childcare - meaning after school or during holidays
• Environment: £6.3bn for environmental upgrades to homes, such as grants for improving boilers and insulation
• Roads: £500m a year for four years to fund filling potholes - almost 10 times the amount promised by the party in an announcement in March, external
• Education: A new National Skills Fund of £600m a year for five years. Labour and the Liberal Democrats have announced similar plans
• Free hospital car parking in England for protected groups - costing £78m a year

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Conservative politicians have continued to repeat their party's promise to "get Brexit done" in interviews this morning.

But the path to leaving the EU is not as simple as the slogan suggests.

In reality, Brexit is not a single event but a complex process, with negotiations likely to continue for years.

Reality Check explores this issue further here.

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Boris Johnson is en route to Telford where he will launch the Conservative Party's manifesto at about 14:00 GMT.

Here's a peek of him reading through his party's pledges on the train.

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We covered a lot of ground in the political interviews earlier, but we haven't told you yet about Jo Swinson's defence of her party's record in government.

The Lib Dem leader had a tough time with the audience of BBC Question Time's leaders special on Friday over spending cuts introduced as part of the party's coalition with the Conservatives.

Appearing on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show earlier, Jo Swinson said: "I didn't go into politics to make cuts, I didn't enjoy making cuts".

Watch the full clip below.

The Democratic Unionist Party could do business with Labour if Jeremy Corbyn wasn't leader, Arlene Foster has said.

The DUP leader described Corbyn as "anathema to anyone who believes in the United Kingdom," telling the Press Association he would "wreck the economy" and "wreck the defence of our nation".

But she said there were others in the Labour Party she would consider working with in the event of a hung parliament.

That would depend on the views of a new leader, she said.

"If it comes to be the case that someone else is leading the Labour Party, then we will judge it against, not only our 12 point plan, but whether it's good for Northern Ireland to be in communication with whoever's leading the Labour Party at that time," she said.

The DUP is opposed to the withdrawal deal negotiated by Boris Johnson and is unhappy with customs and regulatory arrangements that would see Northern Ireland treated differently to the rest of the UK and the mechanism outlined for Stormont to give its consent to extending that system.

Read more on the party and their policies in our simple guide, here.

Roger Harrabin
BBC environment analyst

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In June the Conservative government set a world-leading goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to virtually zero by 2050 and they're expected to include that in their manifesto later.

But they’re already failing on existing easier targets.

What’s more, some scientists warn the climate needs more urgent repair. The Lib Dems and SNP say the clean-up date should 2045. Labour says by the 2030s.

The Greens want 2030 - which would mean practically all petrol and diesel vehicles banned, all homes insulated and all central heating boilers changed within a decade.

So it’s not just a question of the target date - it’s whether the policy can be delivered.

Away from the cut and thrust of campaigning, here's the sight that will greet MPs when they return to Parliament after the election on 12 December - the Christmas tree is now up outside the Palace of Westminster!

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Norman Smith
Assistant political editor

I would not expect the Tory manifesto launch to be a big bonanza moment, crackling with exciting new initiatives and lots of new spending pledges.

My sense is this is going to be a fairly risk averse, safety-first manifesto.

Why? Well in part because they look at the big chunky lead they’ve got in the polls and think, we don’t have to take these kind of risks.

But also they remember Theresa May’s last manifesto which blew up in her face and pretty much destroyed her campaign.

So they are desperate to have no repeat performance of that.

We'll hear the full details of the Conservatives' manifesto when it's launched later, but we've been given a sneak peek this morning.

Giving his verdict, Carl Emmerson from research group the Institute for Fiscal Studies says it's "a very modest offer" so far.

"That is not necessarily a bad thing," he says. "But it is incredibly different to Labour's offer, which is striving for something very different from what we have at the moment."

The Tories have ruled out an increase to National Insurance contributions - which are a tax of 12% taken off UK workers' salaries above a certain level, currently £8,632.

Mr Emmerson says the National Insurance giveaways, relative to current stated policy, "is a commitment to cut tax by £85 per year to all employees who would still be paying National Insurance contributions. So that is a max gain to those in paid work of less than £2 per week."

He also says the money behind its childcare offer are "hardly anything compared to Labour, let alone the Lib Dem one".

"Most of the other things are commitments not to take things away that we already have - or are already Government policy," he says.

We'll bring you the full manifesto details as and when we get them.

Earlier we reported Labour's promise to give compensation to Waspi women - who lost out on years of state pension payments when their retirement age was raised.

Conservative minister Michael Gove was also asked about the issue on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show earlier.

He said the government was "sympathetic" to their position and had offered "additional funding" to smooth the transition when equalising the pension age.

You can read more about the Waspi women's campaign here.

During his interview earlier, Mr Gove was challenged over whether voters trust the Tories, with Andrew Marr pointing out that the government have made a number of misleading statements on how many hospitals it will build and how much money people will get from a Tory policy to raise the National Insurance threshold.

In last week's TV election debates, audiences laughed at the idea that Conservative leader Boris Johnson could be trusted.

However, Mr Gove insisted the reason people don't trust politicians is because "this broken Parliament has failed to deliver on Brexit”.

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Nicola Sturgeon earlier said scrapping Trident would be a red line for her party to support a Labour government in the event of a hung Parliament.

However, the Labour manifesto includes a pledge to renew Trident.

Speaking to Sky's Sophie Ridge programme, the SNP leader reiterated that she would not go into coalition with Labour, but would enter into a confidence and supply arrangement if they met her conditions.

Ms Sturgeon also wants Labour to commit to a referendum on Scottish independence next year and to stop Brexit.

Read more on this story here.

Boris Johnson is en route to the West Midlands, where he will unveil his manifesto later.

He was spotted at Euston railway station in London a short while ago.

We'll have more from Mr Johnson when he reaches his destination.

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It's been a busy morning on the political shows, with Michael Gove, John McDonnell, Jo Swinson, Sajid Javid and Nicola Sturgeon all facing a grilling.

But after all the talking, what have we actually learned? Here's a brief recap:

• Asked about how Labour would pay for its promise of compensation for more than three million women who lost out on years of state pension payments, John McDonnell admitted the policy was "expensive" but said the funding would be a "very special arrangement, a contingency".
• He also said that in any future Brexit referendum under Labour, he would expect government ministers would be allowed to campaign "on the basis of their judgement"
• The Conservative's Sajid Javid promised the Tory manifesto would come with "the most detailed, most transparent costings which has ever been published in British electoral history"
• Nicola Sturgeon said the SNP would not go into coalition with a minority Labour government, but could do a "less formal arrangement". She laid out some conditions of such an arrangement - including that Brexit be stopped
• On supporting other parties in the event of a hung Parliament, Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson said she would not put Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn into No 10
• And asked why Remainers would vote Lib Dem when the Labour Party is now offering another referendum on Brexit, Ms Swinson said: "People who voted remain want a leader not a bystander"
• The Conservative Party's Michael Gove promised there would be no possibility of a Tory government asking for another Brexit extension.

The Andrew Marr Show

Turning to Brexit, and Mr Gove is asked if there was any possibility of the Tories asking for another extension. He replies simply: "No".

He added: "We'll be out of the EU actually by January."

Asked about getting a trade deal with the EU, he says its important the UK "tie up the loose ends" by securing a major new trade agreement with the bloc.

"We've done a huge amount of work already, alongside the Withdrawal Agreement, in the political declaration which lays the groundwork for the deal we want ... We will secure a deal," he says.

As the BBC's Reality Check points out, the withdrawal agreement says the two sides would have to decide by 1 July 2020 whether to extend the post-Brexit transition period.

So if the UK was to leave on 31 January, at the end of the current extension, there would be exactly five months to negotiate a trade deal.

The Andrew Marr Show

The first topic for cabinet minister Michael Gove on the Andrew Marr Show is social care.

He is asked if there is a "big thought through offer" in the manifesto to tackle social care problems.

Short term, he says there will be an extra £1bn investment to tackle issues.

Long term, he says he wants to "forge a consensus" with opposition parties to create a "solution that spans the generations".

He refuses to go into more detail ahead of the manifesto launch later.

The Andrew Marr Show

The Plaid Cymru leader has questioned Jeremy Corbyn's neutral stance over Brexit.

Adam Price's party supports having another referendum on EU membership, in which it says it will back Remain.

It has struck a deal with other pro-Remain parties - the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party - not to compete against each other in dozens of seats.

Mr Price says that this pact can help "get and win a referendum".

But he says: "If you have a Labour prime minister that is neutral, where are you going to create the dynamic that is going to deliver that Remian vote?"

The Andrew Marr Show

Ms Swinson is then asked whether her party would offer compensation to Waspi women, as Labour have promised.

She says it is not helpful to put forward "uncosted pledges" and asks where the money will come to pay for Labour's proposals.

Ms Swinson adds that her party will take on board what the ombudsman recommends on the issue when it gives its findings.