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Jeremy Corbyn gets his biggest cheer yet when he promises to fund training and restore bursaries for student nurses. 

The audience also applauds Labour's plan to lift the public sector pay freeze and hand wage decisions to an independent pay committee. 

"We want nurses to be paid a decent wage," he says.

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ITV says it will not "empty-chair" those who don't turn up for its leaders debate on Thursday. Neither Theresa May nor Jeremy Corbyn are expected to attend.

“The invitation remains open to all seven party leaders until the debate goes on air," a spokesman said.

"The stage will have the right number of podiums for leaders who attend on the night.”

David Allen Green, law and policy commentator at the Financial Times and blogger at Jack of Kent,, external, thinks he sees one fatal flaw in the Tories' worker’s rights pledges. 

"Rights which are not enforceable are not really rights at all," he adds.

Jeremy Corbyn says he wishes there "could be a public debate" between him and Theresa May about the NHS, "but she seems reluctant to have that discussion".

That, we assume, is a nod to the prime minister's refusal to take part in a head-to-head TV showdown. 

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is addressing the Royal College of Nursing in Liverpool and is effusive in his thanks to the audience for how they coped with the cyber attacks which began on Friday.

He acknowledged the "extraordinary lengths all of you do to to keep our country healthy".   

Mr Corbyn says: "We are ready to step in and save the NHS from the cuts and privatisation over the last seven years."

He claims that "our health service is being dismantled by stealth". 

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Why does Jeremy Corbyn look so terrified? Surely Cody the dachshund is much friendlier than some others he may meet on the campaign trail. 

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn receives a salary of £137,000, but does he consider himself a wealthy man?

He told ITV News last night: "I consider myself adequately paid, very adequately paid for what I do."

But he insisted: "No, I'm not wealthy because of where I put the money but I'm not going into that, OK?"

A bit of background after that news we brought you via PoliticsHome, external a short time ago about Labour's tax plans. The party will reveal more details of the tax pledge when it releases its manifesto in Bradford on Tuesday.

Last week, shadow chancellor John McDonnell announced that a Labour government would raise income tax on those earning more than £80,000 to fund new investment in public services.

Britons earning less that £80,000, which is around 95% of the UK population, would not see their income tax rise.

The party announced on Monday that it will spend an extra £37bn on the NHS, partly funded by the increase in income tax.  

People earning over £150,000 are currently taxed at 45%.  

"I don't think anyone has ever measured the success of UKIP by how many people we get into the House of Commons," says Patrick O'Flynn.

"We will continue picking up items in the political agenda," he goes on, pushing for cuts to the foreign aid budget for example.

He says he's confident "a UKIP-distinctive party will continue" and there will be "no soft merger" with the Tories.

As part of our Reality Check series on key issues in the run-up to the general election, Steph McGovern examines what's happening to pay.

Labour will reduce the threshold at which workers start paying the 45p rate of income tax to £80,000 a year, according to PoliticsHome. , external

At present, those earning between £45,001 and £150,000 pay tax at 40%.   

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Shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth says the government's response to the cyber attack that stymied a number of NHS trusts has been "utterly chaotic".

Out campaigning on behalf of Rosena Allin-Khan, the Labour hopeful in Tooting who is also a junior doctor, Mr Ashworth says "you're more likely to spot Shergar" than Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt whom he describes as being "in hiding".

He also criticises Theresa May as being "utterly dismissive of the needs of the NHS". 

UKIP’s Patrick O’Flynn is giving a press conference on economic policy, but first reacts to the Conservatives' promises today on workers' rights.

Offering up to a year of unpaid leave to employees with caring responsibilities is "a gimmick" and creates an "unfair burden of uncertainty for small business", he says. It is also "papering over the cracks of the damage it has done to the social care system". 

He says there is "still a stench in the political air left by the Cameron Osborne regime" which favoured big “tax avoiding” businesses and the highest earners over ordinary people.

Chancellor Philip Hammond wants to target "white van men and entrepreneurial women", Mr O'Flynn adds, pointing to now aborted plans to increase the National Insurance contributions of self-employed workers as evidence. 

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Jeremy Corbyn has reportedly brought in a senior aide to union boss Len McCluskey to give Labour's election campaign one last push before 8 June.

The Huffington Post , externalreports that Andrew Murray has been seconded from Unite to support Mr Corbyn's team. 

The chief of staff to the Unite general secretary Len McCluskey is understood to be a long-standing friend and ally of the Labour leader and is the former chair of the Stop the War Coalition which led protests against the Iraq war.

The Huffington Post says Mr Murray left the Communist Party of Britain last December to join Labour as a party member.