Earlier we told you about the mad rush of people registering to vote before the deadline at midnight last night - according to the government's voter registration website,, external 660,000 people signed up yesterday.

Having a closer look at the figures, we've noticed voter registration applications made between the dissolution of Parliament and the deadline have been particularly high for people aged 18 to 34, compared with the last two general elections.

Don't forget though that an increase in applications is not firm evidence of an increase in the number of people able to vote - previous elections have seen voter registration applications from people who are already registered or who are below the voting age.

Lisa Summers
BBC Scotland Health Correspondent

Demand that the UK government raise health spending in the UK to match health spending in Scotland.

Health is a devolved issue meaning spending and policy are decisions for the Scottish government. The SNP has been in power in Scotland for a more than decade and has been under scrutiny over its domestic record.

But that doesn't stop the SNP wanting to influence what happens at Westminster. Scotland spends more per head on health than any other part of the UK. This is partly to support rural services, but historically Scotland has faced a number of public health challenges.

The SNP says to get its support in the event of a hung parliament, spending on the NHS across the UK needs to increase by billions of pounds. Pushing up spending per head in the UK to the same level as Scotland would then give a further boost to the block grant from the Treasury to Holyrood. That would mean health spending in Scotland would remain proportionally higher than the rest of the UK.

Norman Smith
Assistant political editor

One issue in this election that Jeremy Corbyn has scored on is the NHS and, in particular, the fear it might be on the table in any future trade talks with the US.

We have seen that at some of his rallies with supporters chanting "not for sale".

And we have seen it too in some of the live TV debates, where the audience seems to have warmed to Mr Corbyn when he has raised this as an issue.

This is why they have released these 451 pages, this tome of documents - they want to dial up that fear factor

And they say quite simply to Boris Johnson: "You say the NHS is not for sale? Well, 451 pages is a funny sort of way to say no."

But while these documents do tell us what the US wants - i.e. full market access, longer patents for drugs, and looser drug controls - they don't really tell us what UK officials are prepared to give.

And they certainly don't tell us what any British prime minister would dare do if they wanted to make it out of Downing Street in one piece

So, you are left with the thought that Labour want these documents to somehow be a turning point in this election to shift it back onto the NHS.

The risk is the papers are just seen as a rather crude scare tactic after a difficult few days for Labour on the campaign trail over anti-Semitism and tax.

The World at One
BBC Radio 4

A bit more from Baroness Warsi. She claims "huge pressure" was put on the Chancellor Sajid Javid to "water down" calls for an inquiry into Islamophobia.

He appeared to chivvy all of the contenders for the Conservative leadership into agreeing to one during the contest for that post.

Since then, though, the party has been reluctant to commit to one specifically on Islamophobia, preferring to look at "all forms of prejudice" instead.

Baroness Warsi says Mr Javid is in a "very difficult position".

"I can completely understand why Sajid would not want to be as blunt and as honest as I know he is.

"I hope that one day Sajid will be braver and bolder," she adds.

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The former chair of the Conservative Party Baroness Warsi has repeatedly criticised the party's response to Islamophobia. She's calling for an independent inquiry

Baroness Warsi tells Radio 4's World at One that Mr Johnson's apology - see our post a few minutes ago - is "a good start" as the Conservatives have "dragged their feet" in dealing with it.

But she recalls Mr Johnson's "crass" comments about Muslim women and "letter boxes".

She doesn't think Mr Johnson is an Islamophobic, but adds: "I do believe there's a space of privilege within which he exists where he feels, sadly, that there are no consequences to the words that he uses even when they're crass, offensive or racist."

She says it's important for him to "think again" about the language that he uses because words "have consequences" and they are "not the kind of words which really are fitting for a prime minister of this country".

She says many parliamentarians, MPs and candidates have told her in confidence that they've experienced racism and Islamophobia but who feel to raise it would end their careers.

Douglas Fraser
Scotland business & economy editor

Press the UK government to invest in public services and the economy.

The SNP could not form a majority government, so there's no costed budget with this manifesto. That will be for the Holyrood elections in May 2021. So there are demands for additional spending, without making clear the source of these funds.

The big ask of the next chancellor is to reverse the spending squeeze over the past decade. There's a claim in the manifesto that deficit reduction measures by the Treasury have led to £13.9bn less spending on public services in Scotland than would otherwise have been the case.

While the Conservatives plan to increase the level at which employees start to pay National Insurance, the SNP wants both to freeze that level and to devolve power over that system, so that it can be integrated with Holyrood's income tax powers.

The other big tax and spend change would be to take the £8.5bn in tax revenue projected (by the Office for Budget Responsibility) over five years from UK offshore oil and gas, and to apply it to a "net zero fund", to help the transition of energy use. That is a change from past SNP spending plans, which looked to oil and gas revenue to fund public services.

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It's been a really busy morning, so here's a quick summary for you:

• The SNP launched its manifesto. Nicola Sturgeon set out a whole range of policies - we break the big ones down here - and her demands for giving any support to a potential Labour minority government. She also had very strong criticism for Boris Johnson
• Labour produced what is said were "secret documents" showing UK and US officials discussing the future of the NHS in trade talks between the two countries. Jeremy Corbyn said it was the document the Conservatives "don't want you to see". The Tories insist the NHS "isn't on the table" - read our explanation of what that phrase means
• Boris Johnson is campaigning in south-west England, during which he apologised for Islamophobia in the Conservative Party - and for "hurt and offence" caused by it
• He has also been urged to apologise personally for his comments about Muslim women by one of his own party's candidates, Parvez Akhtar
• Discussion also continues around Labour and anti-Semitism following the chief rabbi's intervention and Mr Corbyn's Andrew Neil interview

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Boris Johnson has apologised for incidents of Islamophobia in the Conservative Party.

Speaking on the campaign trail in Cornwall, the PM told reporters there is a "zero tolerance approach" to Islamophobia and all other kinds of prejudice in the party, and promises to begin an independent inquiry into such incidents by December.

Asked whether he apologised for the Islamophobia that had taken place, Mr Johnson said: "Of course, and for all the hurt and offence that has been caused - of course we do.

"And all that is intolerable, and it's so important as a country that we don't allow that kind of thing and that's why we're going to have the independent inquiry."

Give Holyrood power over train services to build better, greener public transport.

Can shifting power from Westminster to Holyrood help deliver cleaner, greener public transport? The SNP thinks so.

It says rail passengers would get a better deal if the Scottish Parliament controls both track and train - that is the train operator, Scotrail, and Network Rail, which maintains the lines, signalling and many stations.

Right now, Network Rail is ultimately controlled by Westminster. The SNP wants that to change.

Why? Bitter experience shows passengers get fed up with delays caused by repair and upgrading works - and often blame Scotrail, regardless of whether it is its fault.

Closer working between track engineers and train operators, the SNP argues, would make planning easier - and reduce disruption for commuters.

The SNP has rejected Labour's railway nationalisation plans. A single, GB-wide company would, it says, strip powers away from Scotland.

But it has left open the option of a public sector operator running Scotrail services in the future.

It has made this case before, but political horse-trading after this election could give it the breakthrough it wants.

Analysis by David Henderson, BBC Scotland business and transport correspondent

Hugh Pym
BBC News Health Editor

What we do know is there were six meetings - which were revealed a few weeks ago - between 2017 and this summer, between UK and US officials, scoping out the potential for a future trade deal post-Brexit.

And it was leaked at the time that drug pricing and the NHS was somehow part of this.

Now, Labour has got hold of the minutes of these meetings.

They are pretty technical, but there are a couple of things that spring out from reading them.

One of them is patent issues. The Americans want longer patents, particularly for their drugs, so they have exclusivity for longer so can charge more, which might push up drug prices.

Secondly, "total market access" for US companies for all UK sectors jumps out as not ruling out health.

But this is all very much what the Americans want and what officials would have reported back to London.

Jeremy Corbyn can say yes, it is on the table, but Boris Johnson can say the actual trade talks haven't begun between governments and, as far as he is concerned, the NHS won't be on the table.

But it very much raises the possibility that the American side may ask for a whole range of things, including issues with drug pricing, and what that might mean for the NHS.

Rumours that Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rishi Sunak will be behind the podium for the Tories on the televised BBC debate in Cardiff this Friday have been confirmed.

Mr Sunak will be at the podium with the Labour Party's Rebecca Long-Bailey, a close ally of Jeremy Corbyn - and Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson.

They'll stand alongside the SNP's leader Nicola Sturgeon, Plaid leader Adam Price, Caroline Lucas for the Greens, and Richard Tice chairman of the Brexit Party.

The programme airs at 19:00 GMT.

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More on the subject of apologising. Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has apologised for Labour’s initial handling of claims on anti-Semitism in the party.

He said there was anti-Semitism in society, which re-emerged "because of some of the divisions in our society", adding: "It will have infected all of our institutions and all our political parties and we've got to deal with it."

He said his party was "seeking to eradicate it" as the existence of "even one anti-Semite is not good enough".

Mr McDonnell continued: "We've already said that and I'll repeat that - I am really sorry for the way we handled it initially because we've learned lessons, and we've invited people to say, if there are more lessons to be learned, come and see us.

"I think in the recent period we have done everything asked of us, but there are more lessons to learn we will always be able to open ourselves up to learning."

James Shaw
BBC Scotland reporter

The SNP may be the last of the big parties to launch their manifesto, but last doesn’t necessary mean least.

This is a party that could have its part to play in the government of the country.

There was a raft of policies in Nicola Sturgeon's speech, including £1.5bn to end austerity and moves to tackle climate change.

But one more detail came out - Scotland's first minister said if there was a danger of a no-deal Brexit - the UK leaving the European Union without a deal - then the SNP would be in favour of revoking Article 50 - in other words, deciding to end the Brexit process but without a referendum.

However, we are a long way from that becoming a reality that the country has to look at seriously.

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The Lib Dems say the public will be "horrified" by documents showing talks had taken place between UK and US negotiators on drug pricing and NHS access.

The party's Brexit spokesman, Tom Brake, says the 451-page dossier "looks like a deal cooked up between the Tories and Donald Trump that puts our NHS on the table".

He adds: "The fact that the US trade representatives have said a no-deal leaves 'all to play for' hits home how Boris Johnson must be stopped.

"It could not be clearer that Brexit will make the UK weaker, and that Donald Trump wants to profit from this weakness."

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Nigel Farage is accusing Jeremy Corbyn of being "in denial" about allegations of anti-Semitism in Labour.

Mr Corbyn has previously apologised for the hurt caused to Jewish people, but he declined to do so in an interview on Tuesday.

Speaking at an event in Doncaster, the Brexit Party leader says a "very, very extreme cult has taken over" the party.

Talking about Mr Corbyn's appearance on the BBC, Mr Farage says: "He's completely in denial, isn't he?

"His friendships with Hamas, his friendships with Hezbollah, a very, very extreme cult has taken over the Labour Party. He doesn't look like a prime minister.

"I'm being told in Yorkshire by people, had it from several people, that actually the man is effectively an IRA sympathiser to boot and people feel very strongly about that."

BBC Politics Live
BBC2's lunchtime political programme

"What we have here are all the 541 pages of exactly how the services provided in the NHS are on the table," says Labour's international trade spokesman Barry Gardiner, referring to government documents about US-UK trade talks which Labour have obtained and released today.

But has any of it been agreed by the UK government, he is asked.

"This is not American documents... At the top of it it says Department for International Trade. It's actually come from the department," Mr Gardiner replies.

Asked whether anything has been signed off, he adds: "Within the documents, they state very clearly, they are now at the level where they have final wordings to achieve the extension of patents for drugs, where they have the wording to achieve the ending of the National Institute of Care Excellence's capacity to control cost effectiveness in the health service."

Our political editor Laura Kuenssberg says Jeremy Corbyn hasn't provided evidence ministers have agreed the health service should be part of a trade deal.

But she says the fact that discussions about the demands of US pharmaceutical companies are taking place will still be motivating for Labour voters worried about the NHS.

Lisa Summers
BBC Scotland Health Correspondent

Introduce a bill to protect the health service from privatisation and future trade deals.

The future of the NHS - and its part in any post-Brexit trade deals - has already been a major battleground in this election.

Although the Scottish government is responsible for running the health service in Scotland, there have been concerns that after Brexit, trade negotiations between the UK and US could lead to American companies bidding for contracts and pushing up the cost of drugs.

The SNP's NHS Protection Act would enshrine in law that the NHS is protected as publicly-owned and operated with its services publicly commissioned.

The SNP says it will stop the health service becoming a lever in any kind of international trade deal. Crucially the legislation says any trade deal would require the consent of all the devolved parliaments and assemblies to ensure it did not impact on the health service.

However, the Conservatives have strongly denied the NHS would ever be used as a bargaining tool. Expect to hear more about it during the campaign.

• Could the NHS be "up for sale" to US companies?

Reality Check

Reality Check looks at claims made by the Labour leader in a special interview with the BBC's Andrew Neil.

Jeremy Corbyn was the second leader to face such a grilling - the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon went first and Reality Check has looked at her statements too.

Boris Johnson responds to claims by his Labour rival that the NHS will be "up for sale" to the US if the Tories remain in government.

The claim comes after Jeremy Corbyn showed a 451-page document at a press conference in London, showing talks had taken place on drug pricing and NHS access.

But out campaigning in the South West, Mr Johnson denies any risk to the NHS, telling reporters: "We are absolutely resolved that there will be no sale of the NHS, no privatisation - the NHS is not on the table in any way."

Instead, he says the prospect is "continually brought up by the Labour Party as a diversionary tactic from the difficulties they are encountering - particularly the problem of leadership on anti-Semitism and then the great vacuity about their policy on Brexit".

The Archbishop of Canterbury says he is concerned about deliberate misuse of facts during election.

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