Summary

  • Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn urges young people to register to vote and "step up for Britain"

  • Theresa May makes her first election campaign visit to Scotland

  • European Union leaders agree a joint strategy for Brexit negotiations

  • UKIP leader Paul Nuttall confirms he will stand in Boston and Skegness

  • General election due on 8 June

Live Reporting

Alex Therrien and Danielle Dwyer

  1. UKIP FGM plans 'outrageous', says Lib Dems

    The Lib Dems have called plans by UKIP to give girls deemed at risk of FGM annual medical checks "horrifically heavy handed". 

    Former Home Officer minister Lynne Featherstone said the policy would "alienate the very communities we are trying to reach out to".

    She also said Ukip were seeming to "try and out-do Le Pen" with "insensitive and frankly outrageous" right-wing policies.

    We should be training our teachers and other providers, such as community experts, to identify those at risk and teaching children themselves that FGM is wrong and to come forward if they fear for themselves or a friend. This is where we should concentrate our efforts, not forcing girls to undergo invasive medical examinations."

  2. Carswell: PM will get 'proper liberal Brexit'

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    Independent MP Douglas Carswell has said the UK election is "over before it has even begun", but it will settle the question of the country's relationship with the EU. 

    The former UKIP member, who joined the party after leaving the Conservatives, said Theresa May will have "all the room for manoeuvre she needs to get a proper liberal Brexit" after the election on 8 June.

    He told BBC Radio 4's World at One that this was a better option than a "Nigel Farage-type of divorce settlement".

  3. John Redwood: 'Spirit of lower taxes' will be in Tory manifesto

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    MP John Redwood continues to insist that the Conservatives are the "lower tax party" amid questions over its plans for the future.

    He said the party's tax policy would become clear in the upcoming manifesto. But again, there was no confirmation about whether 2015's pledge to not raise national insurance, income tax or VAT would be included.

    There will be a pledge, it may not be the same words, but it will have the same impact. We want people to get better off, we like success, we want people to be rewarded. The spirit of lower taxes will be throughout the manifesto."

  4. General Election: What happened to Scottish seats in 2015?

    As June's general election campaigning gets under way, here is a re-cap of what happened in Scotland two years ago.

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  5. UKIP donor at spa hotel which landed Tories in hot water

    UKIP's (now former) main donor Arron Banks has been meeting local activists at a hotel in Thorpe-le-Soken.

    BBC East's political reporter Andrew Sinclair has noted it's the same hotel Conservative activists stayed at during the 2014 Clacton by-election, when they fell foul of expenses rules and were fined £70,000.

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  6. Chancellor 'constrained' by tax pledges, says IFS chief

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    Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies said Chancellor Philip Hammond was right to want more flexiblity to increase tax.

    He said David Cameron's pledge to not raise national insurance, income tax or VAT in 2015, "constrains you to an extraordinary degree". 

    However, despite these pledges, he said the overall tax burden had still gone up in "hidden ways", with increases in insurance premiums and stamp duty for example, and is actually on its way to being the highest since the 1980s. 

    These aren't the most efficient or equitable ways [of raising tax], but we are finding that we need that extra bit of money."

  7. How will Sturgeon speech compare with Corbyn's?

    BBC correspondent James Shaw watched Jeremy Corbyn's speech in Aviemore. He told BBC Radio 4's World at One:

    It was pretty well received [but] this was a speech targeted at this particular audience. There was a standing ovation at the end and it seemed pretty genuine, after messages about strengthening the trade union movement 'until the day he died'. But there is another speaker this afternoon, Nicola Sturgeon, and it will be interesting to contrast that."

  8. Video: Retiring MP confident of large Conservative victory

    Tory MP Eric Pickles, who announced this weekend that he won't be standing for re-election on 8 June after representing Brentwood & Ongar for 25 years, thinks the opinion polls are correct this time round...

    The Daily Telegraph's poll tracker gives the Conservatives 46% of the UK vote, compared to Labour's 26% and the Liberal Democrats' 11%.

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  9. Will Paul Nuttall stand as an MP?

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  10. Corbyn promisies Orgreave inquiry

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    Jeremy Corbyn promised to launch an inquiry into the so-called "battle of Orgreave", which saw thousands of miners and police clash at the Yorkshire coking site in 1984.

    Campaigners had been calling for the government to look into the behaviour of South Yorkshire Police in light of the two-year Hilsborough inquest.

    But Home Secretary Amber Rudd said there was not a "sufficient basis... to instigate either a statutory inquiry or an independent review".

    Mr Corbyn has now pledged the review and said the Labour party would "urge" the Scottish Government to set up an inquiry into the actions of the Scottish police during the Miners’ strike.

  11. Jeremy Corbyn: Pensions, public sector and zero hour contracts

    Mr Corbyn again confirmed the party's pledge to protect pensions and keeping the so-called triple-lock on their increases. 

    He promised to create a Scottish National Bank with £20bn of lending power to deliver the funds to local projects and Scotland's small businesses.

    And he pledged to ban zero hour contracts, saying it would give protection to 60,000 workers in Scotland. 

    How can people plan or just pay the rent when they have no security of income? Is it right they wake every morning and then wait for a text? We will give all workers equal rights from day one to stop some workers being exploited and others undercut."

  12. Arron Banks visits Clacton

    The former Ukip donor says he wants to run to be MP in the Essex seat

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  13. Watch: What's in the political diary this week?

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  14. Corbyn calls on 'comrades' to help win election

    The Labour leader criticised "much of the media and establishment" who he says are calling the election a "foregone conclusion".

    But by the Labour movement standing together, Mr Corbyn believes his party can still win on 8 June:

    They think there are rules in politics which if you don’t follow you don’t win. So you start doffing your cap to powerful people accepting their parameters so nothing can really change. Comrades, it is when you start doing that, that you really can’t win."

  15. Energy bill cap embraced by Conservatives

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  16. Corbyn: Election is 'the people versus the powerful'

    Jeremy Corbyn says one of the first things Labour will do in government is repeal the Conservatives' Trade Union Act. He also repeated pledges to raise the living wage, stop the public sector pay cap, and "end the need for food banks in Britain".

    Returning to his main campaigning theme, he said:

    This election is the people versus the powerful We are in this election to win it and we will fight for every seat in every corner of these islands."

  17. Foster 'arrogant' over unionist pact

    A newspaper article by Arlene Foster on a unionist pact was not helpful, says UUP leader Robin Swann.

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  18. Watch: UKIP, Labour and Conservative views on calls for a burka ban

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  19. Jeremy Corbyn: No apology for union ties

    Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn tells the unions in the room that he is proud to be a trade unionist and carries his card with him wherever he goes:

    You are our DNA, you are our family and we will never, ever apologise for the closeness of our relationship with you."

  20. Watch: Labour MP responds to UKIP burka ban plan

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