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Three Conservative candidates are being investigated over claims they've engaged with or promoted anti-Semitism, the Guardian reports, external.

A statement sent from the party to the newspaper said: "We are committed to stamping out the scourge of anti-Semitism in our society and supporting our Jewish community."

Earlier in the election campaign Boris Johnson said anyone making racist remarks would be out of his party "first bounce".

That comment was made in response to allegations of Islamophobia rather than anti-Semitism.

• One of the big election stories of the day comes from social media website Reddit, which says leaked documents detailing UK-US trade talks were posted on its platform by an account linked to a campaign that originates from Russia. Mr Corbyn said the controversy over the documents is "nonsense", while Mr Johnson, said "we need to get to the bottom" of what's happened
• The leaders of the major parties are on the campaign trail - Boris Johnson has been in north west England where he was pictured playing football. He's pledging to invest £550m in grassroots football.
• Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is in Barry, the Vale of Glamorgan, and dropped into a zero-waste cafe where he tried some Welsh cakes. Labour are promising to make the UK's entire bus fleet electric by 2030 with a £4bn investment.
• Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson has been playing tennis in Shinfield, Reading, and later visited St Albans. Her party is today announcing a pledge to scrap business rates to help small firms and will provide greater support for entrepreneurs.
• SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has been ice-skating at a campaign event in Aberdeen supporting local candidate Kirsty Blackman.
• And Nigel Farage has been in Sedgefield with the local parliamentary candidate. The pair visited a factory.
• There's also a lot of talk about last night's election debate - the last time Mr Johnson and Mr Corbyn will go head-to-head before polling day. Read our piece fact-checking their claims here.

Here’s a concise guide to where the parties stand on big issues like Brexit, education and the NHS.

You can compare their top priorities and key election pledges – to help you work out which party to vote for on 12 December.

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Earlier we reported that Boris Johnson was forced to cancel a walkabout event in Westhoughton because of security concerns, after dozens of protesters took to the town's high street.

There were around 100 demonstrators lining both sides of the high street. the Press Association said.

Meanwhile, protesters also came out on the streets with signs during Mr Johnson's visit to Cheadle Hulme (pictured above), but the PM still continued with his campaign event.

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The NHS is one of the key issues in the election campaign as political parties fight to be seen as champions of the health service.

While many assumed this election was going to be all about, yep, you guessed it, Brexit, the future of the NHS has been another top priority for voters.

Hospitals in all parts of the UK are struggling to meet key targets in A&E, cancer care and routine operations.

We've been speaking to staff to find out what it's actually like working in the NHS.

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Labour plans to make the entire UK bus fleet electric by 2030 with a £4bn investment, if it wins the general election.

This would reduce bus emissions by more than 70%, cutting air pollution and helping to tackle climate change, the party said.

But Conservatives claim the plans are part of "Labour's war on the motorist".

More than 3,000 bus routes have been cut or reduced over the past decade, campaigners said in October.

Read our full story here.

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There was shock in the East Midlands constituency of Rutland and Melton last week when the death was announced of independent candidate Anthony Watchorn.

His family said the 69-year-old died in hospital after falling ill. He had been due to take part in a debate days afterwards.

With thousands of candidates standing across the country, deaths during an election campaign are rare but not unheard of.

In our latest edition of Your Questions Answered, Connor from Edinburgh asked why independent candidates are treated differently from those who represent a political party when they die.

Read more here.

They make up 51% of the population - but what are the parties offering to women this election, and why do women get so much abuse and so little representation in politics?

Mark D'Arcy
Parliamentary Correspondent

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Russian oligarchs. A fashion magnate turned cider maker. A theatre impresario. An online gambling entrepreneur. The wife of a Syrian-born arms trade fixer.

These are some of the big donors pouring hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of pounds into the political parties, and they are an intriguing bunch. Their largesse pays for the increasingly important online messaging, the battle buses, the rallies, stunts and all the paraphernalia of a 21st Century election campaign.

All the parties hoover up smaller donations from supporters of more modest means, but these big donations from the mega-wealthy can transform the parties' striking power.

Read more here.

More on David Merritt, the dad of London Bridge attack victim Jack Merritt, who previously criticised politicians - including Boris Johnson -over their response to the attack.

Mr Johnson blamed attacker Usman Khan's release on legislation introduced under "a leftie government", and called for longer sentences, and an end to automatic release.

Mr Merritt, whose son Jack worked for a prisoner rehabilitation programme, previously said he would not wish his son's death to "to be used as the pretext for more draconian sentences".

This morning, he tweeted a Twitter thread criticising Mr Johnson over his comments made in last night's leadership debate. Our political correspondent calls it Mr Merritt's "most outspoken intervention yet".

Rob Watson
UK political correspondent, BBC World Affairs Unit

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The penultimate week of campaigning has been as frantic as you would expect and it has been punctuated, of course, by two events.

The first was the tragic murder of two young Cambridge graduates in a dramatic attack in London by a man previously convicted on terrorism charges.

The second was the brief visit of US President Donald Trump.

In the 2017 general election, the horrific mass casualty suicide attack at a concert in Manchester completely eclipsed the campaign for several days.

This does not appear to have happened this time, although the anger of the father of one of the victims at what he saw as attempts by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his allies to exploit the murders to sound tough on crime might have proved difficult for the Conservative Party, had they not quickly changed their tone.

Read more here.

Ben Wright
BBC political correspondent

The Tories' "Get Brexit Done" bus came into Bolton, drove around for a bit and then left again.

Boris Johnson was meant to be doing a walkabout in Westhoughton, part of the marginal Tory held seat of Bolton West.

But because of security concerns the event’s been cancelled.

The same happened in Rochester yesterday.

Tory sources say the police have the final say and that security considerations determine what happens. But party strategists will be glad to swerve potential protesters and hecklers too.

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Jeremy Corbyn says it's "nonsense" to suggest leaked documents he used as "proof" the Tories want to "sell off" the NHS were linked to a Russian disinformation campaign.

"This such an advanced stage of rather belated conspiracy theories by the prime minister," the Labour leader says

Online message board site Reddit said it had suspended accounts that were part of a co-ordinated effort "originating from Russia".

But Mr Corbyn says the real issues "are that those documents show exactly what the British government was doing in discussions with Donald Trump's administration in the USA and also why the prime minister has refused to release the report on Russian interference in British politics, which he's been sitting on for a very long time".

"What we are dealing with here is a prime minister that wants to hide the issues and the truth, create obfuscation when the reality is to sell out our public services to the US administration through a sweetheart trade deal," he adds.

"We obtained those documents, we believe those documents to be correct, and nobody until yesterday had denied the correctness of those documents."

Continuing pitch-side, the prime minister says "we do need to get to the bottom" of who leaked the documents on US-UK trade negotiations which were posted on forum site Reddit.

Late last night Reddit said it was posted from an account linked to a campaign "originating from Russia".

Pressed by our correspondent about an unpublished report about potential Russian interference in UK democracy, the prime minister reiterates: "I know of no evidence of any successful interference by Russia in any democratic event in this country."

The government has consistently refuted accusations that it's suppressing the report. Mr Johnson says there's "no reason" to release a report early "just because there's a general election".

You can read about the leaked documents in full here.

Back to the pitch now, where earlier we showed you pictures of Boris Johnson in goals at a football club in Cheadle Hulme.

But it wasn't just for laughs. Mr Johnson is there to highlight his party's latest pledge - what he says is the "biggest ever investment" in grassroots football.

The £550m plan is part of plans to back a UK and Ireland bid to host the 2030 World Cup if they form the next government.

Speaking at the pitch-side, the PM says the "female game" is doing well but is "still not as big in the UK as it is in some other countries".

The Conservatives' announcement would boost existing plans for amateur football in England.

Labour has said the funding would not make up for "years of brutal cuts" to sporting facilities.

Read our full story on the announcement here.

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Now here's a bold move.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon dons her skates while out campaigning at a Christmas market in Aberdeen.

We just can't help thinking about how wrong this stunt could have gone if it were tackled by some of the other leaders.

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Continuing the (unintended) sporty theme of today's election campaigning, Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson has been joining in with a tennis training session in Reading.

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Here's that picture we were missing. Nigel Farage in a hard hat - he's at a factory in Sedgefield.

He's been giving his thoughts on next week - he thinks people are in for "a big surprise".

"I think a lot of people just won't vote", he says. "They've reached a point where they don't believe a single word that anyone's saying to them".

He says leave voters will "win this campaign" but adds that it's been "the most uninspiring election I've ever seen".

He repeats that the bigger parties haven't done enough to inspire people to go out and vote.

"Brexit breaks apart traditional politics and normal parties and it will do so until it is properly executed," he says.

At last - some light relief! The prime minister stepped in as goalkeeper ahead of a girls' football match in Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester.

He took to the field for about 15 minutes as the under-10-year-olds' team fired penalty shots at him.

Boris Johnson has had to deal with some difficulties on the field in the past - including flattening a 10-year-old boy during a touch-rugby session in Japan.

But in net today he demonstrated he can be a fairly safe pair of hands...

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