Today Programme
BBC Radio 4

Jon Ashworth has swapped studios and is now on the Today programme. He says shifts in funding from capital spending on infrastructure to running the day-to-day health service have left the NHS without enough to keep on top of things like IT upgrades.

He disputes figures put to him which say NHS spending has gone up under the Conservatives.

"It is unquestionable that capital budgets have been raided," he adds.

BBC Breakfast

All of the money raised from increasing taxes for those earning more than £80,000 will go to the NHS, the shadow health secretary tells Breakfast.

BBC Breakfast

Jon Ashworth, shadow health secretary, says Labour will put billions more into the NHS but will expect to see significant improvements in return.

He says the party would introduce "even tougher" waiting time standards. 

For cancer patients, Mr Ashworth says they should get treatment within four weeks rather than the current two months. 

And on A&E, he says Labour would start by meeting the current four-hour waiting time target, currently being routinely missed in many hospitals.

But he says for "the most urgent and most serious cases" Labour would bring in a new target of one hour for treatment.

Left of centre think tank the Social Market Foundation says the ideas behind Theresa May's plans on workers' rights are "fair and sensible" and the changes would "help ensure workplace rules keep up with the reality of modern life for many workers".

Plans to give workers in the so-called "gig economy" more rights are particularly welcome, the think tank adds, as those people are often "denied the advantages of being employed, such as sick pay, access to training and pensions".

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Craig Beaumont, head of external affairs UK at the Federation of Small Businesses, says his members find employment regulations "the toughest ones to grapple with".

He says they're worried about the cumulative effect of these new Conservative proposals "adding to the morass".

Small firms, he argues, are generally much more flexible anyway at dealing with issues of the sort Theresa May is talking about, for example, an employee struggling with a sick relative. 

BBC Breakfast

Are the Lib Dems getting through to voters? Sir Vince is asked.

"This is early stages of a very long campaign," he replies. But, he goes on, it's becoming clearer to people "that this isn't really a contest, but more of a coronation" and "the Labour Party are not seen as electable by enormous numbers of people". 

In that context, says Sir Vince, the appeal of "the more moderate, middle-of-the-way alternative that we offer" will grow.

And in terms of electoral prospects, the former business secretary adds: "Our resources are highly concentrated in places where we can win seats... and we are confident we can get a a good outcome."

BBC Breakfast

Lib Dem spokesman on business Sir Vince Cable says about five million people in the wider public sector would benefit from his party's promise to boost pay.

The cost, he says, is about £1.4bn a year, but that is "necessary" because of growing problems recruiting nurses, police officers and other staff.

The freeze was "tough and unpopular" and brought in when the economic problems facing the country were "extreme", but that was almost a decade ago and it's time to make a change, he adds.

 What's coming up today:

• Theresa May will be talking workers' rights on a visit to a business in Oxfordshire
• In Liverpool, Jeremy Corbyn and Tim Farron will both - separately - address the Royal College of Nursing's annual congress
• The Labour leader will pledge more money for NHS infrastructre while his Lib Dem counterpart will promise to end the 1% cap on public sector pay rises by increasing wages in line with inflation
• Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon will be campaigning in Lanarkshire, insisting that an SNP victory on 8 June would force the government to include Scotland at the Brexit negotiating table
• Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson will deliver speech on nationalism in London
• The Greens say they will scrap SAT tests in primary schools during an event in the Isle of Wight
• UKIP will focus on economic policy with a press conference in London

Norman Smith
Assistant political editor

I'm struggling to think of an election in which a Tory party made workers' rights a central focus.

It's frankly, very un-Tory, because when you strip it down it will mean more regulation for businesses, more red tape - something the Conservatives have spent a great deal of time and energy trying to reduce. 

It's part of a change from an unswerving allegiance to the free market that we're seeing in a number of Theresa May's policies - the cap on energy prices, a plan to buy up land for more affordable housing. 

Partly it's tactical, Jeremy Corbyn's vote is soft, and part of it comes from a feeling that post-Brexit, traditional tribal allegiances have been thrown up in their air.

But lastly, I do think Mrs May has had something of a Damascene conversion. She views the Brexit vote as a howl of outrage by ordinary people against the bankers, against austerity, against business as usual - and she's reacting to that by trying to address some of their concerns.

The Tories might be concentrating on an area more traditionally associated with the Labour Party - workers' rights - but Jeremy Corbyn too in familiar Labour territory today, the NHS.

He says Labour would spend an extra £37bn on the NHS in England over the next five years if it wins power.

The investment, including £10bn on upgrading IT systems and repairing buildings, would be funded by tax increases and capital borrowing.

The promises come after last week's NHS cyber attack, which Mr Corbyn is blaming on "Tory cuts".

But a Conservative spokesman said he couldn't deliver any of this "because his nonsensical economic policies would damage our economy and mean less money for the NHS, not more".  

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Theresa May is making employment her campaign focus on Monday, promising what she says would be the biggest expansion of workers' rights by any Conservative government if she is returned to power.

She'll pledge:

• to keep all workers' rights currently guaranteed by EU law
• put worker representation on company boards
• protect pensions
• guarantee a statutory right to a year's unpaid leave to care for a relative

But Labour said the Tories had overseen an "era of non-compliance of employment law", an "explosion in low pay and stagnating wages" and a "massive expansion in bogus self-employment".

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Theresa May is to promise a "new deal for workers" on Monday. The Conservatives say she will offer protection for people in the "gig economy", a statutory right to leave for those who need to care for a family member and a commitment to further increases in the national living wage. 

In a trip to a training centre, Mrs May will set out what she claims is the "greatest expansion in workers's rights by any Conservative government", including measures to protect workers' pensions.

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Here's a brief look-back at what has been happening today.

The cyber-attacks have led Labour to call for urgent action to protect the NHS.

The Conservatives have pledged to work with local councils to build more social housing - within existing budgets.

Labour say they will impose "Robin Hood taxes" on the City.

The Lib Dems have been talking about defence, pledging to maintain spending.

Nicola Sturgeon has said Scottish schools need to do better on literacy and numeracy.

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Jeremy Corbyn is to make a speech to nurses pledging to put an extra £37bn into the NHS if Labour comes to power. In a speech to the Royal College of Nursing in Liverpool, he will promise to improve accident and emergency departments, cut waiting lists and reduce so called "bed-blocking".

The Labour leader will say the Tories left the NHS vulnerable to cyberattack and warn that another five years of Conservative rule will lead to the health service being "broken up and plundered" by private firms.

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