Speaking at the Scottish Trade Union Congress in Aviemore, Jeremy Corbyn says the system is "still rigged" against working people, "but it is trade unions that make a difference".

He added: 

Former Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael is to defend his seat in Orkney and Shetland for the Lib Dems.

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Another Tory MP has been unable to rule out tax rises under a Conservative government, instead backing "flexibility" for the chancellor.

Speaking on the Daily Politics, Alistair Burt said the manifesto pledge from 2015 for no rises in VAT, national insurance or income tax was "right for the time" but "circumstances are different" for the upcoming election. 

"You can't say at this stage that everything we had in the previous manifesto must automatically go into the next one," he said. 

"A new manifesto, a new election, gives the chance for the party to say something different."

The Communist Party of Britain says it will not field any candidates for June's election - the first time it hasn't run for any seats since 1920. 

The party's general secretary Robert Griffiths has instead called for supporters to vote Labour in order to "reject austerity, privatisation and imperialist war" under a Tory government. 

Mr Griffiths says its members will offer "practical campaigning assistance" to local Labour bodies, but has not ruled out running candidates in the future. 

Green Party of England and Wales co-leader Caroline Lucas has accused UKIP of "full throttled Islamaphobia" and pledged to "stand up to the politics of hate". 

She described its integration agenda as a "assault on multiculturalism and an attack on Muslims". 

She said the Green Party would be putting forward a vision for a "multicultural, welcoming Britain". 

Here are the key points from UKIP's integration agenda:

• A moratorium on new Islamic schools in the state system "until the entire Muslim community is better integrated"
• If children are exposed to Islamist ideology that school should be suspended, taken over by the DFE and subject to investigation
• Failure to report FGM should be a specific criminal offence
• Medical practitioners should have to waive patient confidentiality and report cases of abuse of children
• Girls at risk of FGM should be required to have annual school-based medical examinations
• The CPS should pursue prosecution of parents of FGM victims
• Crimes where race is a factor, such as in Rotherham where gangs of Pakistani men groomed white women, should be treated as a hate crime
• Ban Sharia law and set up a legal commission to disband Sharia courts
• All official documents should be in English
• Ban face coverings or veils in public places

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UKIP deputy leader Peter Whittle has restated the party's commitment to banning Sharia law.

He said the public were "alarmed" by the growth in Sharia courts and they need to be disbanded.

He went to say the full face veil was a "deliberate barrier" to integration and a "potent symbol of female oppression".

Mr Whittle said they need to be outlawed, adding: "People should show their face in a public place."

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An energy price cap once described as "very dangerous" by senior Tories will be in the party's manifesto.

UKIP's Margot Parker says law enforcement have "turned a blind eye" to Female Genital Mutilation.

She says the CPS should work on the "presumption of prosecution" of any parent whose daughter has suffered FGM.

She said it would sent out a "long overdue" signal that Britain will not tolerate the crime.

Arron Banks is today in Clacton - a place he said he knew "nothing" about, despite expressing his intention to stand in the constituency for UKIP in the general election on 8 June.

BBC Essex has made a short guide to help him out....

UKIP's equality spokeswoman Margot Parker speaks at the party's "integration agenda" event.

She said crude multiculturalism - which she defined as the liberty of migrant groups to follow unmodernised cultural lifestyle of their country of origin - was the "enemy of women's rights".

UKIP's education spokesman David Kurten has said UKIP proposes "a moratorium on new Islamic state schools" until there is better integration of the entire Muslim community.

Speaking at the launch of UKIP's integration agenda he also said schools should be suspended and taken over by the Department for Education if there is evidence children are being exposed to extremist  ideology.

UKIP leader Paul Nuttall has opened a campaign event saying UKIP wants an "integration agenda" and to see people signing up to "British law and a British way of life".

Mr Davies said there is nothing he has actually said that "ever asked for women to be treated less favourably than men".

He said he has asked for "men and women to be treated exactly the same" and campaigned against the Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women bill because he thought it should "apply equally".

The leader of the Women's Equality Party, Sophie Walker, is to stand against Tory MP and male rights advocate Philip Davies in the election.  

She said told the Victoria Derbyshire programme she has decided to stand against Mr Davies because he has used his position of being a local MP as a national platform to "espouse anti-women views".

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A prospective parliamentary candidate has announced she will not be standing for election in Somerset as she is in the middle of buying a house.

Liberal Democrat Daisy Benson said the "snap election... unfortunately comes at precisely the wrong time for me".

Ms Benson said it would be unfair to Yeovil constituents "not to be able to devote 100% of my time to campaigning."

Former Yeovil MP, Lord Ashdown, thanked Ms Benson who had helped "energise the constituency" during her time as PPC.

"I know you will join me in thanking Daisy for her tremendous efforts, and wish her every success for the future," he said.

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