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James Libson, a partner at the Mishcon de Reya law firm, has been on BBC Radio 4's Today programme talking about the 70 sworn testimonies from past and present Labour party staffers that he has submitted to an official investigation into anti-Semitism.

He says the evidence to the Equality and Human Rights Commission's inquiry shows there are "many, many outstanding complaints, many examples of interference and many examples of double standards in the way in which complaints are processed".

People connected to Jeremy Corbyn's office and the investigating unit have been secretly passing information on USB sticks and WhatsApp groups, he says.

Shadow housing secretary John Healey was also on the programme and said the party was "too slow and too weak" at the start but has "toughened up".

He says there is an in-house lawyer responsible for investigations, special appeals panels and new fast-track expulsion powers.

And he apologised to members of the Jewish community who feel let down by the way the party handled anti-Semitism complaints.

Sajid Javid is being kept busy this morning. At 8:10am, the chancellor will be the morning's keynote interviewee on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

Martha Kearney will be firing the questions at him in 15 minutes' time and we will have updates here.

BBC Breakfast

As soon as Mr Javid gets into his flow detailing exactly what his party would do in those 100 days, he is hit by a tough question by BBC Breakfast's Charlie Stayt.

Stayt asks: "One of the principal problems you have in laying out these 100 days about what you intend to do... is that your Conservative government has been in power for 10 years and you have not tackled these things. You have not done what is required and now out of the blue, you are going to come up with solutions and answers and proposals. People will say why should we trust you now when you haven't delivered before?"

Mr Javid says that he is proud of his party's record and achievements in government which he says is at risk from a Labour government. On the NHS he says: "You need to keep looking at it and investing and it will always be a priority, but most of all it needs the funding. Without the funding, we will all lose out and that requires a strong economy.

"We can choose to keep the economy strong and fund all these fantastic public services or we can choose Corbyn who will 100% crash the economy."

We suspect that we might hear the phrase "first 100 days" a few times today from the Conservatives as they outlines what the party calls its 100-day promise.

Chancellor Sajid Javid is on BBC Breakfast right now and has just squeezed the words into his second answer.

BBC Breakfast

Talking of which, the shadow education secretary Angela Rayner has been speaking to BBC Breakfast about those Labour plans to keep class sizes below 30.

She says that the recruitment of 20,000 new teachers and training of 25,000 unqualified staff who are already in the classroom would take place over the next five years.

Asked whether children could go through primary school without seeing their class size reduce, she says: "On 13 December I can’t bring in 20,000 teachers. It will happen, but it will be over a five-year period."

Ms Rayner is also pressed on whether Labour's plans are sufficient, with the National Audit Office saying another 55,000 teachers are needed to keep pace with rising pupil numbers.

She says: "We're on track to make these changes that need to happen. Over last seven years the government have missed their recruitment targets. Teachers are leaving the profession, it’s a crisis."

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Labour’s focus today is on its education plans, with the party promising maximum class sizes of 30 in every school in England.

It says that, if elected, it would recruit nearly 20,000 extra teachers to achieve this result, which is an extension of its manifesto pledge to limit class sizes in primary schools.

The pledge only covers England because education policy is devolved in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

But headteachers say that rising numbers of pupils mean that they need 47,000 more secondary teachers and 8,000 in primary schools just to keep pace with the demand.

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Boris Johnson has been setting out his plans for the first 100 days after the election, saying that if he is voted back into office there would be a tax-cutting Budget after the UK leaves the EU.

He’s also saying the party would give schools and the NHS extra cash immediately.

Labour say the plans are “more of the same failed austerity, privatisation and tax giveaways for the few”, while the Lib Dems say they are "pure fantasy".

The SNP says voters have seven days to escape Brexit and lock Boris Johnson out of office.

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Welcome to today’s live general election coverage. We’ll be bringing you news of all the main developments as they happen throughout the day.

The Conservatives have already outlined plans for tax cuts and later in the day Boris Johnson will be visiting a business, while Labour is focusing on plans for education. Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson is campaigning in Scotland and the Greens are outlining their plans to protect wildlife and biodiversity.

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The Christmas tree is up in Downing Street and there are now just seven days until election day, when voters decide which party gets the keys to the door of that famous No 10 door wrapped up with a bow - and which ones just get lumps of coal.