Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke at the Nato summit earlier, outlining the topics he and other world leaders had talked about.

Despite some earlier wars of words between leaders today, the PM said the discussion was "extremely practical and extremely harmonious".

You can read his full statement here, external.

More on comments by ex-Labour minister Ivan Lewis, who earlier urged voters to back the Conservatives, despite the fact he's standing as an independent in Bury South.

Mr Lewis - who is Jewish - criticised the "institutionalised racism" he believes exists in Labour, said Jeremy Corbyn's plans were "unaffordable" and claimed the leader prefers "the values of Russia and Iran to Britain and America".

Now a Labour Party source has said: "Ivan Lewis was suspended from Labour while we investigated serious sexual harassment complaints about him. He left the party shortly before his hearing, denying the complainants their opportunity for their case to be heard. He is not a credible voice on tackling discrimination."

See the full list of candidates standing in Bury South here.

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“It’s ‘cob’ round here, not ‘bap’”. Nigel Farage is reminded firmly over the counter at Deb’s Diner that he’s on unfamiliar turf. Sutton-in-Ashfield is a former mining town in North Nottinghamshire - once rock-solid Labour territory.

“It isn’t just Brexit,” says Ann who’s serving the tea. “It’s immigration. Look at the crisis in the NHS, that’s because so many people have come in.” She’s considering backing the Brexit Party, if Mr Farage can get his bread roll nouns right.

“He’s the only politician you can believe. He tells the truth, as it is,” says Roy Dobb, an 85-year-old who used to vote Labour. “No more,” he declares, “I wouldn’t vote for them now if they were the only option." He views Jeremy Corbyn as “dangerous”.

The open-topped bus is cheered and hooted as it drives into the marketplace. Mr Farage easily engages with everyone, even with a Remainer, as he bounces from cafe to butcher's shop to pub. Only one dissenting voice shouts obscene guidance on how to leave, as he lifts his pint.

Earlier at a rally, there was talk of “establishing a bridgehead in Parliament” to keep Boris Johnson and the Conservatives to their promises. Every Nigel Farage speech I’ve heard in this campaign includes a joke about Labour's Diane Abbott’s maths ability but he says he only needs a handful of MPs to make a difference.

There aren’t many rap fans amongst this mainly older, white audience but Mr Farage springs on stage to a tune called “Power” by Kanye West. His party is hoping just a slice of that will influence the big decisions that lie ahead.

You can see all the candidates running in North Nottinghamshire here.

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The Queen's Christmas Broadcast was the most-watched TV programme on 25 December last year, with 6.4 million viewers.

But it looks like Jeremy Corbyn wasn't one of them - according to an ITV interview with Julie Etchingham.

She asked the Labour leader if he sits down with his family to watch the Queen's annual address at 15:00 GMT, but confusingly, he says: "It's on in the morning, usually we have it on."

Pressed, he says he and the family don't watch much television on Christmas day, and they also visit a homeless shelter.

"There is lots to do. I enjoy the presence of my family and friends around Christmas. Obviously, like everybody else does," he says.

The interview, part of ITV Tonight’s series of interviews with party leaders is on ITV1 on Thursday at 19:30 GMT.

Online reaction to Mr Corbyn's viewing news has been mixed:

Climate protesters dressed as bees glued themselves to the Lib Dems' electric campaign bus in south London this morning.

The stunt by Extinction Rebellion promoted calls for the party to drastically cut carbon emissions by 2025.

Now they've struck again - activists imitating the striped flying insects are occupying a Brexit Party office in Grimsby (...Grims-bee?!).

BBC reporter Sam Francis tweets a picture showing at least six protesters receiving a rather unamused response from Brexit Party supporters.

Boris Johnson is heading back to the campaign trail now and his Nato guests are going home. Here's a quick summary of events so far today:

• The Nato leaders' meeting has wrapped up, with Boris Johnson pledging "rock solid" support to the alliance. Much of the questioning in post-match press conference concerned Donald Trump and Mr Johnson appeared exasperated when he was asked once again about the NHS and a future US-UK trade deal. He said that "nonsense" had been "rumbled", but Labour has continued to press the case today - suggesting assurances from Mr Johnson and Mr Trump weren't worth much...
• Mr Johnson also said he would press ahead with a tax on digital services, despite Mr Trump threatening retaliation
• Policy-wise, Labour is focusing on pledges it says would "abolish poverty once and for all". Shadow chancellor John McDonnell blamed 10 years of Conservative government for rising living costs
• Meanwhile, a former Labour minister turned independent candidate, Ivan Lewis, has urged voters in his constituency to back the Tories, criticising Jeremy Corbyn over anti-Semitism, security and spending

• The Liberal Democrats have set out plans to address the student mental health "crisis". Earlier, a campaign visit by Jo Swinson in south London was overshadowed by Extinction Rebellion protestors dressed as bees gluing themself to the party bus
• Ms Swinson will be interviewed by the BBC's Andrew Neil this evening - Nigel Farage is next up after that, and there's still no agreement from Boris Johnson to do it
• Nothern Ireland's SDLP launched their manifesto (called Stop Boris - Stop Brexit) as did the Ulster Unionists, who say they are hoping for a hung Parliament
• And weather forecasters are predicting a chilly election, with much of the UK covered in frost - but pollsters say it's unlikely to have much effect on the turnout

The Conservatives and Labour have been warned they cannot afford to duck the “big intergenerational challenges” facing the UK if they win the election.

The Resolution Foundation said recent trends suggest demographic allegiances are going to become even “more important” on 12 December, with the Conservatives relying on older voters for much of their support and Labour drawing heavily on the under 40s.

In a new report, the think tank says the parties may be able to use generational differences to their electoral advantage “in the short run” but this will be a “time-limited strategy”.

While parties have traditionally dealt with difficult issues like funding for social care and the taxation of wealth by “kicking them down the round”, it says action on both fronts cannot be avoided for too much longer if the “generational contract is to be renewed”.

“Finding a solution is tough given the ballot box advantage older voters have, due to their greater number and their higher turnout,” it concludes. “But a single or cross-party governing agenda that addresses these challenges at the same time as boosting young adults’ incomes, and their labour market and housing prospects, is essential.”

The graphic below - tweeted by Resolution Foundation chief Torsten Bell - is a bit too small to read but check out the full report here for more detail., external

As the Ulster Unionist Party launches its manifesto, here's our pithy guide to what it stands for it and what its policies are.

Just returning for a moment to the press conference Boris Johnson gave an hour or so ago, He was asked about a proposed digital services tax - which would see the large online companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook face a tax of 2% of UK sales from April 2020.

Mr Johnson was asked whether he discussed with President Trump his plans to push ahead with the digital services tax, and what Mr Trump's response was.

He said the "vast revenues" of the digital companies need to be looked at because they were "not paying much tax in proportion to the huge sales they make in this country".

He added that this needed to be "addressed" and was being "raised with our friends in the US".

Donald Trump has threatened to impose taxes on French goods in retaliation for a digital services tax.

Woman's Hour

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Earlier today, Woman's Hour hosted its election debate on BBC Radio 4, featuring Conservative Helen Whately, Labour's Laura Pidcock and Liberal Democrat Sarah Wollaston.

It also included SNP candidate Deidre Block and Belinda de Lucy from the Brexit Party.

The debate saw the candidates clash over poverty, with Laura Pidcock arguing that the other parties had made "no attempts to say" how they would end poverty for nine million working households - and four million children.

"There were 19,000 food parcels handed out in County Durham," she says. "The idea that’s an individualised problem is nonsense," she said.

But Helen Whately said: "It might sound lovely having all this money spent on tons of things, but none of this is any good if you destroy the economy in the process, if you go on a reckless spending spree, if you have to put up tons of taxes, if you’re borrowing loads more, if businesses if investment leaves the country."

She said the government had to make some "really difficult decisions" but now it was in a "fantastic place" where it can invest in public services.

But Ms Pidcock said: "Who is the economy doing really well for? I’ve just said that 14.3m people are in poverty, nine million of which are in working households."

Listen to the whole debate here

Fast food giant Burger King has caused a stir in Westminster this morning - with an eye-catching advert on the side of a red bus.

“Another whopper on the side of a bus,” says the ad. "Must be an election."

The BBC's digital elections team say the advert has been shared by 65 pro-Labour, pro-Remain and pro-SNP groups on Facebook so far, with more than 16,000 direct interactions and a potential audience of 645,000.

As if you need reminding, the Vote Leave campaign used a now somewhat infamous red bus during the EU referendum in 2016...

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Ivan Lewis, a former Labour minister who is on the ballot in Bury South as an independent, has announced he is supporting the Conservative candidate in his constituency "to stop Corbyn".

In a Facebook post, external, Mr Lewis - who is Jewish - says: "Voting Conservative in Bury South is the only way to make sure Brexit is delivered, protect our national security and make sure the economy doesn’t crash with devastating consequences for working and vulnerable people.

"It’s the only way for decent people of all faiths and none to say no to anti-Semitism and show solidarity with their Jewish neighbours, workmates and friends."

As well as criticising the "institutionalised racism" he believes exists in Labour, he says Mr Corbyn's plans are "unaffordable" and he prefers "the values of Russia and Iran to Britain and America".

Mr Lewis says a survivor of the Kindertransport, which rescued Jewish children from the Nazis before the outbreak of World War Two, urged him to back the Conservatives.

Labour has been dealing with the row over the extent of anti-Semitism within the party for more than three years.

Mr Corbyn has insisted he is dealing with the issue and apologised on Tuesday for "everything that has happened".

Here's the full list of candidates in Bury South.

A profile of the SDLP: what it stands for and what its policies are, as it launches its manifesto.

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Last week, respected think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies analysed the spending pledges of both the Conservatives and Labour ahead of the election - and found they were "not credible".

Now it's the turn of the SNP. The IFS says introducing the SNP's general election pledges in an independent Scotland could lead to more austerity, not less.

The IFS says the SNP's manifesto sets out plans to increase spending while also setting out a list of tax-cutting measures.

It finds the SNP had not costed these pledges, unlike the other main parties in Scotland.

Read more here.

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Boris Johnson has wrapped up his press conference now, but he clearly wasn't a fan of the last question - on the issue of the NHS and a future US-UK trade deal.

He could be heard saying "oh boy, oh boy" in apparent exasperation even before the questioner had finished.

"I think everybody by now has rumbled this for the nonsense that it is," he eventually replied.

"I think I’ll just wind up this press conference now because we’re starting to scrape the barrel."

He doesn't wrap up though and instead gives a fulsome sell for the Conservatives and for his key message, "get Brexit done".

When asked whether he would allow the Chinese tech company Huawei to roll out its 5G network in the UK, Mr Johnson said he did not want to be "unnecessarily hostile to investment from overseas, but on the other hand we cannot prejudice our vital national security interest".

Mr Johnson adds co-operation with the Five Eyes - the intelligence alliance between the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - "will be the key criterion that informs our decision about Huawei".

You can read more about the security questions around Huawei here.

Boris Johnson is asked about pictures which apparently show him with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau and others having a joke at Mr Trump's expense at the Nato leaders' reception at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday.

He rejects the suggestion that he doesn't take the US President seriously as "complete nonsense".

This is the footage they're talking about. No-one mentions Mr Trump's name, but they seem to be joking about his lengthy press conference on Tuesday.

The first question to Boris Johnson comes from the BBC's John Pienaar, who asks whether US President Donald Trump, who has previously told of his admiration for Mr Johnson, is good for the West and for Britain.

Mr Johnson doesn't answer with a straight yes or no, but says the USA is a "massive contributor" to Nato, and has, for 70 years, been a "pillar of stability for our collective stability".

He points to the 2018 Salisbury Novichok attack as evidence of the USA's willingness to "stand shoulder to shoulder with us", when America expelled 60 diplomats over the incident.

He adds: "The USA is an invaluable ally and continues to be so."

Ned Simons, of the Huff Post, is one of those watching...

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The Lib Dems are focusing on young people's mental health today, arguing universities need to meet their duty of care by guaranteeing access to counselling.

Read the full story.

In this piece, we look at what all the parties are promising on mental health and disability.