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Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson is now being interviewed by the BBC's Andrew Marr.

Firstly she is asked why Remainers would vote Lib Dem when the Labour Party is now offering another referendum on Brexit.

Ms Swinson insists her party still have a "real opportunity" to win seats from the Conservatives and stop them achieving a majority.

She also attacks Jeremy Corbyn's promise to remain neutral in a future referendum as "astonishing".

“People who voted remain want a leader not a bystander," she adds.

Ms Swinson insists her party is "best placed" to stop the Conservatives, although she admits "as things stand" the polls suggest the Tories are on course to get a majority.

The Lib Dems are "not conceding yet" though, she adds.

Asked whether she would offer Lib Dem support to the Tories if they failed to win a majority, Ms Swinson reiterates that her party would not put Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn into No 10.

However, she says she would support a bill to put a Brexit deal to the public in another referendum.

“I’m not doing a deal, I’m going to vote for the things that I’m standing up for," she says.

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Ms Rayner is then challenged over Labour's claim that only the top 5% of people would pay more tax under a Labour government.

Andrew Marr points out that lower-paid workers would lose their marriage tax allowance under Labour proposals.

Ms Rayner responds by saying that "if you look overall at what our package is everybody bar the top 5% will be better off under Labour”, adding that ordinary people will benefit from Labour's policies on issues such as public services, childcare and tuition fees.

The BBC's Reality Check has been looking at this issue in detail - you can read about it here.

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Ms Rayner is still on Marr, and is now addressing her party's promise to offer compensation to the Waspi women, who lost out on years of state pension payments when their retirement age was raised.

Ms Rayner says the Waspi women have been "failed" by previous governments and "we'll right that injustice".

This policy is not one that is costed out in their manifesto.

When Andrew Marr points out that Labour has promised to fund all spending except for investment by raising taxes, Ms Rayner says "this is a completely different circumstance" because if the Waspi women had won their legal challenge the government would have to have paid them compensation.

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Back over on Sky, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon is in the hotseat.

Asked about who her party might support, in the result of a hung Parliament, she says:

• If the party were to support a minority Labour government, she says there would be no coalition but a "a less formal arrangement"
• Laying out her conditions for supporting Labour, she says she wants: Brexit stopped, no nuclear weapons on the Clyde and more devolution
• She repeats her promise that she would "never ever put Boris Johnson in government"

She adds that "neither of these guys would be my choice of prime minister".

The first minister says she doesn't "get to choose the leader of the Labour Party".

She says many people in the UK "have real concerns about Jeremy Corbyn", but "its better to have the SNP keeping him on the right track, or a better track".

She describes the prospect of putting Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn in N0 10 as a choice "between the devil and the deep blue sea."

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First up on the Andrew Marr show is shadow education secretary Angela Rayner.

She's asked whether a future Labour government would take a position in another Brexit referendum, after Leader Jeremy Corbyn said he would remain "neutral".

Ms Rayner says there's a "distinction" between Mr Corbyn who will be an "honest broker" and the rest of the Labour government.

She adds that there will be a special conference for the Labour party to decide its position for a future referendum.

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Economist Paul Johnson, from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, says the no tax rise pledge could "come back to bite" the Conservatives as it could limit the funding available for the NHS to deal with the growing financial pressure of an ageing society.

"If we are going to undo austerity to any extent, we are going to need more money for the health service," he says.

"At some point over the next decade we are going to have to raise taxes or accept we are going to have less in the way of public services...No party is taking that serious message to the electorate...In the Conservatives' case they are saying 'nobody needs to pay'."

The Andrew Marr Show is up and running on BBC One now.

Here's the line-up:

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The chancellor confirms reports that the party will be offering a so-called "triple lock" on major taxes.

The Conservatives are promising National Insurance, income tax and VAT "will not rise", he says.

So how will they pay for it? he's asked.

Mr Javid says the Tory's manifesto will be " the most detailed, most transparent costings which has ever been published in British electoral history".

Mr Javid says the strength of the economy will allow a Tory government to "balance day to day spending" while borrowing to invest in infrastructure.

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Now it's the turn of the Conservative's Sajid Javid - the man Mr McDonnell wants to replace as chancellor.

And it's a matter of seconds before we hear the party slogan "get Brexit done".

Mr Javid says the Tories are the only party that "can deliver a [Brexit] deal within weeks of taking office".

And then, he says, they will focus on "people's priorities", including finding more teachers and getting 20,000 police officers on the streets.

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Mr McDonnell is then challenged over whether he previously denied his party would introduce a windfall tax on oil firms - which was confirmed in the party's manifesto.

Asked this question by a journalist last week, Mr McDonnell appeared to deny the party planned to introduce this policy.

However, Mr McDonnell insists that he interpreted the question as whether he would give the details of the policy and this is why he replied "no".

On to Scottish independence, and the fact that Jeremy Corbyn has said there would not be a referendum on the issue in the first term of a Labour government.

Asked what this means, Mr McDonnell replies he wouldn't expect anything in "the first two or three years" of a Labour government.

He says they would want to focus on issues like Brexit and climate change and Scottish independence would be "a distraction from that".

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Mr McDonnell is then asked about Labour's promise to give compensation to more than three million women who lost out on years of state pension payments when their retirement age was raised.

He admits the policy is "expensive" but says the issue is a "historic injustice" which has caused "real hardship".

When challenged over why the costing for the policy was not in their manifesto, Mr McDonnell says the £58bn of funding required to compensate the Waspi women will be a "very special arrangement, a contingency".

And again, if you want to read more on this issue - the Waspi campaign - we explain it here.

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Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell is now being interviewed on Sky’s Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme.

First he is asked how he would campaign in a future Brexit referendum if Labour won power, after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he would remain neutral.

Mr McDonnell replies that he expects members of a Labour government to be allowed to campaign "on the basis of their judgement".

“I’ll wait until I see the details of the deal that we negotiate," he says.

Defending Jeremy Corbyn's decision to remain neutral in a future Brexit referendum, Mr McDonnell says the country "needs at different type of leadership at the moment" who can "build consensus" rather than "divide the country".

More than four million of us watched the Question Time leaders special on Friday.

The average number of viewers throughout the show was 4.2 million - with a peak of 4.6 million.

ITV's Johnson v Corbyn, external head-to-head on Tuesday proved to be a bigger box-office draw.

The pair's appearance had an average audience of 6.7 million - peaking at 7.3 million.

Don't forget, Mr Johnson and Mr Corbyn will face each other again in a head-to-head on the BBC on Friday 6 December.

Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg is en route to the Conservative Party manifesto launch in the West Midlands.

She predicts we're likely to see fewer surprises today compared to the 2017 election campaign, with one cabinet minister who has seen the manifesto telling her it's "smaller and simpler".

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Labour is promising compensation to more than three million women who lost out on years of state pension payments when their retirement age was raised, if it wins the general election.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell says the pledge would settle a "debt of honour" to women born in the 1950s.

Those expecting to retire at 60 were told they would have to wait years longer when changes to the state pension age were accelerated in 2010.

The so-called Waspi campaigners - standing for the Women Against State Pension Inequality - had argued they were not given enough time to prepare for the changes.

You can read more about the background to their campaign here.

Window cleaner Liam Wildish volunteers his spare time to help keep his home town tidy.

He can often be found washing road signs and organising litter picks in Retford in Nottinghamshire.

So does he think politicians do enough to help their communities?

It's the Conservatives manifesto launch today, but many of the other main parties have already unveiled theirs.

Manifestos are rarely quick-reads, so 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 their manifestos next week.

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Boris Johnson isn't officially launching the Conservative Party manifesto until later today.

However, a number of key pledges were previewed last night - here's a quick summary:

• A promise to bring back the Withdrawal Agreement Bill before Christmas to achieve Brexit by the end of January
• A "triple tax lock" - meaning the rates of income tax, national insurance and VAT would not rise under a Tory government
• A pledge to raise the National Insurance contributions threshold
• Free hospital parking for selected patients, relatives and staff
• £250m a year for childcare support for at least three years, plus a £250m capital spending boost for "wraparound" childcare after school or during holidays
• £6.3bn for environmental upgrades to homes, such as grants for improving boilers and insulation
• £500m a year for four years to fund filling potholes
• A new National Skills Fund of £600m a year for five years
• A ban on exporting plastic waste to countries outside the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

The party will also stick to their commitment to cut carbon emission to net zero by 2050 and continue work to recruit 20,000 more police officers over the next three years.

Among other measures already announced are pledges for more investment in the NHS, schools and tackling crime.

For more detail on the Tories' election pledges read our main story.

Nick Eardley
Political correspondent

Boris Johnson's pitch to the voters will feel similar to the pitch he's been making since he became prime minister.

Deliver Brexit - and the country can focus on domestic priorities.

Today we'll see in detail what Mr Johnson's priorities are - but we already know there will be more money for the health service, for extra police and for schools.

There will also be pensioner-friendly policies like keeping the triple lock, winter fuel payments and free bus passes for the elderly.

Add into the mix cash for childcare support, fixing potholes and a skills fund and it's clear the Tories are loosening the purse strings.

The party says the manifesto will be fully costed.

But it's already removed one way of raising extra funds to pay for its pledges - by promising not to raise income tax, National Insurance or VAT under a Conservative government.

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The Conservatives are launching their election manifesto, with a headline promise to “get Brexit done” by the end of January and bring back the Withdrawal Agreement Bill before Christmas.

Other pledges include a “triple tax lock” – a promise not to raise income tax, national insurance contributions or VAT.

Read more about what to expect from their manifesto here.

Meanwhile, Labour is promising compensation to more than three million women who lost out on years of state pension payments when their retirement age was raised. Read the full story here.