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Jo Swinson has spoken of the impact that people trolling her has on her family.

The Liberal Democrat leader says her mother takes the attacks hardest.

"She's the person that takes it harder," she tells the PA news agency. "But it's 14 years since I was first elected, and I think any parent loves their child and doesn't like it if people say stuff about them that they wouldn't want them to be saying.

"But she's great. She's delivering lots of leaflets for me. So she also gets to see people putting up posters and saying nice things about me too."

Ms Swinson adds that her children are too young to be really aware of it.

She says: "My kids are of an age where they are not really particularly aware of that beyond some friends maybe having seen me on Newsround or something like that. They are kind of used to it, to an extent.

"My husband deals with it with a fairly tough, thick skin as well - he used to be a politician.

"It's not going to deter me because I am standing for what I believe in."

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Jeremy Corbyn has declined to apologise to the British Jewish community following criticism from the chief rabbi over how the party deals with anti-Semitism claims.

In an interview with the BBC's Andrew Neil, the Labour leader was asked four times whether he would like to apologise.

Mr Corbyn said he was "determined that our society is safe" for "all faiths" - but did not directly apologise.

Read more from the interview here.

• You can watch the full interview with the Labour leader on BBC One at 19:00 GMT
• We will bring you all the latest reaction to Mr Corbyn's interview here on our live page
• Party leaders are being interviewed by Andrew Neil for a special series in the run-up to the general election.
• To read about last night's interview, which involved SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, click here

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The deadline for registering to vote in the forthcoming general election is 23:59 GMT today.

If you fail to sign up through the process, which takes about five minutes, then you will be unable to vote on election day.

This is what you need to know about being ready to cast your ballot.

We've had a number of questions from audience members about university tuition fees and student loans.

Paul Gilbert, from the Meriden constituency in the West Midlands, wants to know what the parties are promising.

He says as a parent himself, he is worried about his children being saddled with debt.

Universities in England can currently charge up to £9,250 a year in tuition fees, which can be paid for through a student loan.

For a summary of what the different parties have promised on tuition fees, click here.

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Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage says he is considering spoiling his ballot paper and has predicted a low turnout in the 12 December election.

Speaking in the Labour-held town of Barnsley in South Yorkshire today, where he met voters at a working men’s club, Mr Farage said: "My impression of it is that this election has not taken off at all."

Mr Farage's constituency, Orpington, does not have a Brexit Party candidate, and the MEP said he said he might spoil his ballot paper.

We just mentioned Nicola Sturgeon's interview with the BBC from last night.

In it, the SNP leader was quizzed on her party's policies and record.

BBC Reality Check has looked at three of her claims - you can read the analysis here.

And you can watch a clip from the interview here:

Just a reminder: Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks to the BBC this evening. You can watch the interview in full from 19:00 GMT on BBC One.

We'll also bring you updates and reaction here on our live page.

In last night's interview, Andrew Neil spoke to SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon.

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Former Labour MP Luciana Berger, who quit the party over its handling of anti-Semitism, says she had to leave her old party as she "couldn't change things from within".

Ms Berger, who is now standing for the Lib Dem after leaving Labour earlier this year, says she did "everything within my power to try and change things".

"I had meetings, I put forward motions, I spoke out in the press when some very ugly things surfaced.

"Not only did it not get any better, but it got worse and there has to come a moment when you say enough really is enough."

She says she feels strongly that the party "is institutionally anti-Semitic", adding that there was a "sea of cases" of anti-Semitism within the party which the leadership "chose to brush under the carpet".

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A Welsh farmers' leader has cast doubt on the claim Boris Johnson made yesterday that his Brexit deal will ensure no tariffs or quotas for their produce.

The Tory leader said access to EU markets would be "absolutely protected" while the UK can strike new deals elsewhere.

But NFU Cymru president John Davies says farmers will have no certainty about access to EU markets until "the ink is dry" on a post-Brexit trade agreement.

He says securing a withdrawal agreement is only the first stage of Brexit.

Chris Morris, the BBC's Reality Check correspondent says no-one can guarantee at this stage that Welsh farming will be "absolutely protected" for its markets in the EU.

Read more our story on the issue.

Earlier today, we reported that Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab was called a "coward" by the family and friends of Harry Dunn as they were left outside a hustings in his constituency yesterday.

Mr Dunn, 19, died in a crash in Northamptonshire in August that led to the suspect leaving the UK claiming diplomatic immunity.

His family had hoped to put pressure on the foreign secretary, who was attending the event at a church in Surrey. They are growing increasingly unhappy at the government's handling of the case.

The BBC has now asked Mr Raab about the incident, who said he didn't think having a conversation with the family outside the event "was the right thing to do".

He also criticised what he called a "mob" he claimed had been brought to the hustings by the Jeremy Corbyn-backing group Momentum and the EU referendum campaign group People's Vote.

"There was a lot of rambunctious rowdy noise outside," he added.

"I’m happy to see the family whenever they want to, but doing it outside in those circumstances…I don’t think was the right thing to do, it’s not like we’d be able to have a constructive conversation."

He also said the Dunn family had his office phone number, adding that he "deeply" sympathised with "agony" had been through.

We mentioned the Lib Dem leader tasting some cider while out electioneering - well, as you can see, she's been doing all sort of things today.

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The Labour Party says its members will not canvas alone in a Herefordshire town after a woman attacked a volunteer in her 70s.

She "got into a verbal spat" with the party member while she was canvassing on Bromyard's High Street on Saturday, it said.

The attacker then threw her over the bonnet of a parked car, the party added.

The victim does want charges to be brought, police said.

She was treated for minor injuries after the "unprovoked altercation" and had been left shaken and "very bruised", Labour said.

Read our full story for more details.

Reality Check

Boris Johnson said earlier that Nicola Sturgeon told the BBC’s Andrew Neil last night she wanted Scotland to join the euro.

Commenting on the SNP’s referendum plans, Mr Johnson said: “With their crazy policies, I think confirmed last night as I understood it to Andrew Neil - did I get that right? - confirmed to rejoin the EU, to join the euro.”

While the first minister did confirm that she wanted an independent Scotland to rejoin the EU (should Brexit happen), she did not say she wanted Scotland to join the euro.

In fact, Ms Sturgeon said she wanted to keep the pound until a time when Scotland could introduce its own currency. Her exact words were: “Firstly the pound is Scotland’s currency right now.

"The proposition is that until the conditions were right to establish our own currency which we’ve said would be our objective, then we would use the pound to do that.”

BBC Reality Check has also fact-checked Ms Sturgeon's interview, which you can read here.

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BBC political correspondent

Jo Swinson tasted cider at Dunkertons Cidery in Cheltenham this afternoon and said it was “very refreshing after a hard day’s campaigning”.

Drinking from a compostable cup, the Lib Dem leader is pushing a policy to ban single use, non-essential, non-recyclable plastics within three years of winning the election.

She accepted the party has been squeezed in the polls but told BBC News the policy of revoking it Article 50 if it won the election was the right one and she would continue to campaign for another EU referendum.

BBC journalist Tom Barton has been taking a closer look at the increase in the number of people who've registered to vote.

Registrations by young people far outstrip those of any other group, which, Tom says, you might think would be most likely to benefit Labour.

But he notes there has also been a fall in registrations from the 25-34 age group, who now account for just under 30 per cent of applications - down from 33 per cent in 2017.

On top of that, the proportion of older voters registering has increased.

So Tom concludes: "The number of applications by young people has to be seen in the context of a boost to applications overall, and an increase in the proportion of applications by older voters.

"In other words, maybe not as helpful for Labour as it first appears."

Continuing on the theme of Islamophobia in his questions from reporters, Sajid Javid is asked whether he would use terms such as "letterboxes" to describe hijab-wearing Muslim women - as Boris Johnson once did.

He avoids answering the question directly, despite being asked multiple times - as the Guardian's North of England correspondent points out below.

And earlier, when asked about this by the BBC, he said the PM had already explained himself on this matter, external.

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The BBC's Midlands political editor Patrick Burns asks: what's so different about this general election?

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BBC political editor

A Labour candidate who apologised for sharing a post online about "Zionist masters" and another who defended Ken Livingstone when he was accused of anti-Semitism were on the platform behind Jeremy Corbyn today at his event.

This is the kind of thing that makes some in Labour ask the question: is the leadership blind to impression that gives - or, worse in some candidates' view, is it perfectly aware but doesn't mind?

Today, as ever, Mr Corbyn recommitted to stamping out anti-Semitism and racism of all kinds.

I wasn't able to ask him about the people on the platform, or how he felt about the Chief Rabbi's remarks - but it's the Labour leader's turn to sit down with the BBC's Andrew Neil tonight.

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Chancellor Sajid Javid is now taking questions from reporters.

Asked about the Muslim Council for Britain's comments on the Tories and what is says it their problem with Islamophobia, Mr Javid says: "We will never tolerate anyone amongst our ranks that has any kind of prejudice.

"We will never tolerate it."

Earlier, speaking to the BBC about this issue, he said: "We have taken hatred of any type very seriously... and what we have done is changed laws, we've increased penalties, we've encouraged reporting and that's important to make sure that the whole country, the police and all institutions, are working really hard to root out hatred.

"I want to make sure that as a party we that we are doing everything we can and that's why we're also going to have this independent investigation."

He denied that the investigation - promised during the Conservative leadership election - had been put on the back burner.