Victoria Derbyshire

During a question and answers session, Gina Miller ruled out standing for Parliament herself. She said tactical voting was "very complicated" but they were working with organisers of a tactical voting campaign in Canada.

Asked about the abuse she suffered after her legal battle to get Parliament to vote on Brexit, she said that had not died down.

Former Cabinet minister Peter Lilley has told the Hertfordshire Advertiser he will not be standing in the forthcoming general election.

The Hitchen and Harpenden MP – who has a Conservative majority of 20,055 – has represented the seat since it was created by boundary changes in 1997.

Mr Lilley was trade and industry secretary in the early 1990s under Margaret Thatcher and John Major.

He told the paper he was sad to be stepping down:

The Green Party of England and Wales is expected to announce three policies aimed at students at an event in Sheffield later.

Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley and deputy leader Amelia Womack will pledge to:

• scrap tuition fees
• reinstate maintenance grants
• continue the Erasmus programme and match EU funding for universities with a UK equivalent after Brexit

The Greens say they are the only ones standing up for students and putting young people at the heart of their campaign.   

Gina Miller has been talking about her tactical voting campaign for the election, called Best for Britain.

Since setting up a crowdfunding site six days ago, she said almost 10,000 people had signed up and close to £300,000 in donations had been received.

She said this election would be different from any in recent times, saying: "Like it or not, Brexit is a key issue." 

Her "non-partisan" campaign group wants to see MPs elected who are "prepared to put party politics to one side to ensure the best deal for Britain is achieved".

Ms Miller, a partner in an investment management firm, was the lead claimant in the legal fight to get Parliament to vote on whether the UK could start the process of leaving the EU.  

Prime Minister Theresa May says she wants the "best possible deal" for Wales and the whole of the UK.

Brexit Secretary David Davis has hailed the "opportunity" Britain now has and how it "can reach out beyond the borders of Europe to some of the fastest growing export markets of the world".

Mr Davis added:

Securing an agreement with the EU within the two year period the UK has to leave the bloc "will be challenging" and "difficult", Brexit Secretary David Davis has said.

In a speech to the Prosperity UK Conference, he said the UK wants to see the EU prosper "politically, socially and economically", adding that even European partners who were dismayed by the UK's decision "know that it will be in their interests to do the same".

He said voting to leave the EU "did not seek any desire to do damage to the European Union" and was not a rejection of the values "we share as fellow Europeans".

"We're leaving the European Union, but we're not leaving Europe," he said

The UK wants "to establish a deep, special partnership" with the EU and "it's in both our interests to establish that partnership with the minimum disruption of all".

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Today it's the NHS, yesterday it was Brexit for the Labour team. But after Sir Keir Starmer set out the party's Brexit policy on Tuesday, some newspapers were left confused.

The Financial Times says the party failed to "clear the Brexit fog", external. While the Conservatives offer a clean Brexit and the Lib Dems a second referendum, it says, Labour's policy is complex and hedged.

The Daily Mail describes Sir Keir's stance as incoherent and self-contradictory, external, leaving the impression that Labour is in favour of both leaving the EU and remaining in it.

In the Sun's view, the shadow Brexit Secretary's strategy gives the EU licence to play hardball for years, external.

The Guardian says he declined to explain, external what would happen if the EU told Britain that the deal on offer in March 2019 was a "take it or leave it" one.

The Times wonders would he walk away or stay in, external. "The question was avoided," the paper adds.

Nick Eardley
BBC Scotland Westminster correspondent

Angus Robertson has become perhaps the most high-profile SNP MP. He leads the third biggest group in parliament and gets to quiz the prime minister weekly.

His questioning at PMQs has won him plaudits from commentators at Westminster.

Senior Tories tell the BBC Scotland's Nick Eardley Moray - the constituency Mr Robertson has held since 2001 and his party since 1987 - is one of their top targets in Scotland.

Read more from Nick here.

Victoria Derbyshire

BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith is asked on the Victoria Derbyshire show how Labour might fund NHS pay rises and the reintroduction of nursing student bursaries.

He said there was a suggestion it could be paid for by reversing a cut in corporation tax but there was "a big question mark" about that because it had been "spent" several times over on other Labour policies.

Labour is saying its manifesto will include costings, and those details will have to be gone through meticulously, said Mr Smith.

Today Programme
BBC Radio 4

Free schools, which are meant to respond to parental demand and introduce innovation into the education system, are sometimes opened in areas where there's no shortage of places and where other schools are struggling to make ends meet, according to the Commons Public Accounts Committee. 

Chair of the committee, Meg Hillier, says "the cost of new school places in free schools is costing more than new places in existing schools". 

But Toby Young, director of the New Schools Network, defended the cost saying "in aggregate the cost of free schools in 29% more cheaper".  

On holiday on election day? Moved house since the last one? Wondering when the deadline is to register? We've tried to answer these questions - and more - here.

Today Programme
BBC Radio 4

The Conservative "privatisation agenda will be ended in the NHS", Labour shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth has said.

He claimed a Labour government would reverse legislation in the Health and Social Care Act that allows clinicians to buy in certain care services.

He claimed the measure "has led to an increasingly fragmented service with more contracts handed out to private sector".

"We will be reversing that legislation that allows that to happen," Mr Ashworth told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"We want a publicly funded, publicly provided NHS."

BBC Breakfast

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has been doing the interview rounds. His latest is on BBC Breakfast where he said: "I would love to pay NHS nurses more."

"We want to be more generous with NHS staff because they do an excellent job," he said, adding that his priority was to recruit more nurses.

Again, he pressed the point that Brexit negotiations were central to that investment, which will depend on a "strong prime minister getting the right deal for Britain". 

"Every vote for Theresa May strengthens her mandate," he said.

Today Programme
BBC Radio 4

Labour has pledged to increase pay for NHS staff and bring back bursaries for student nurses. The Shadow Health secretary, Jon Ashworth, said it was important to invest in NHS staff and training because it would have a positive impact on patients. 

Mr Ashford said corporation tax could be increased to pay for the measures and that "those with the broadest shoulders should contribute more."   

Today Programme
BBC Radio 4

Labour shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth has accused the prime minister of "being dishonest" about giving the NHS the money it has asked for.

He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme:

Mr Ashworth added: "We will give the NHS the funding it neesd - it's not had the funding it needs under this Conservative government."