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Jeremy Corbyn's been responding to Labour deputy leader Tom Watson's warning of a Tory landslide.

In the Guardian, external Mr Watson also said Labour had a "mountain to climb" to catch up with the Tories. 

But the Labour leader insists both he and his deputy "are working flat out to get Labour elected on 8 June". 

Asked if senior Labour figures were already admitting defeat, Mr Corbyn said "not at all" and added: "I am out round the whole country, the party is out round the country putting out the message we are for the many, not the few." 

He said he had been talking to Mr Watson this morning about the cyber-attack on the NHS and about Labour's policies for sport, art and culture, which are within Mr Watson's brief. 

Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has appealed to young people to register to vote to help defeat what she said was a "pernicious" Conservative government.

Campaigning in Llanelli, she said young voters could determine the outcome of the election in Wales and while she accepted there was widespread scepticism about the political process, first and second-time voters could have a "real impact".

Although Labour is in government in Wales, she said it was only her party who would stand up to the Conservatives.

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Theresa May has arrived in Northern Ireland for a brief visit.

The prime minister is at the Balmoral Show in Balmoral Park, near Lisburn in County Antrim.

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Theresa May is campaigning to strengthen her hand, but she won’t tell the voters what that hand is, Gordon Brown has said at an event in Fife.

"She wants a free hand, carte blanche, a blank cheque. No prime minister should ever be given a blank cheque," he told the group of Scottish Labour members.

He warned if this did happen, it would lead to an increase in poverty. 

"This year 14.2 million in poverty, and 15.7 million by 2022, the end of the next parliament. Children condemned to poverty, 4.1 million expected this year.”

He urged voters to think of their values and what matters most to them when casting their vote. 

"Think of the record of the Tories and the nationalists. Stand by our candidates, stand with them and when elected they will stand with you”, Mr Brown concluded. 

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has described those behind yesterday's IT hack on the NHS as "a bunch of 21st Century highway robbers."

Speaking while out campaigning in Lowestoft, he said: "It's unbelievably disgusting and I've got nothing but contempt for those people that have done it, and I'm sure all of you would share that."

However, he said, his anger wasn't just reserved for them:

"I'm also very angry that in 2014, there was a one-year renewal of the protection system on the NHS systems which was not renewed after that and not renewed the year after that and so our systems are now not upgraded and not protected."

Nick Robinson
Presenter, Radio 4 Today

When the campaigning is over, the leaders' buses have been parked and the votes counted, one question is sure to be asked: "What on earth did they mean by that?!"

Politicians, pollsters and pundits like me spend our lives trying to delve into the psyche of those curious folk who, unlike us, are not overgrown election trainspotters who spend hours studying politicians' speeches, analysing their manifestos and nerdily swapping election trivia.

Getting into the heads of voters is more important than ever now.

Firstly, few saw recent election upsets - Cameron's majority in 2015, the Leave vote in the EU referendum or Trump's victory - coming.

Secondly, that vote for Brexit shows signs of the glue that used to attach voters to the parties they may have supported traditionally, further dissolving.

I have been talking to a group of voters in Halifax who backed Leave in the EU referendum, to hear what is on their minds and how they are going about deciding who, if anyone, to vote for.

For my full analysis, click here - and don't forget to watch the show on the BBC News Channel today at 2.30pm.

The sale and purchase of sex should be decriminalised to help keep sex workers safe, the Green Party has said.

Launching its women's manifesto, the party also said it would shut down detention centres and reverse cuts to areas of health care which have disproportionately affected women.

Launching the policies at Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire, the party also called for, in the short term, the release of female asylum seekers who have experienced sexual violence and a ban on male staff coming into contact with female detainees. 

The Liberal Democrats will build 300,000 new homes for sale and rent a year by 2022, if they win the election, Tim Farron says.

Speaking on a visit to north-west England, Mr Farron said a Lib Dem government would commission housing directly, if developers weren't able to build. 

He said local authorities and housing associations would be allowed to borrow against the value of the homes they own, to build more. 

 He said the lack of affordable housing was one of the biggest issues facing the country. 

The Lib Dems are also promising that councils would be able to double council tax on empty homes and penalise developers for holding land with planning permission without building on it. 

Of course no policy announcement on housing would be right without a hard hat moment.  

Sussex Police said it was treating the graffiti as "politically-motivated criminal damage".

Labour has called on Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to outline the "immediate steps" the government is taking to improve NHS cyber-security.

In a letter to Mr Hunt, shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth says the incident "highlights the risk to data security within our modern health service and reinforces the need for cyber-security to be at the heart of government planning". 

While condemning the criminals who carried out yesterday's attack that put patient wellbeing at risk, Mr Ashworth wants the goverment to respond to the following questions:

• Why NHS organisations failed to act on a critical note from Microsoft two months ago?
• What additional resources are being given to the NHS to bring the situation under control as soon as possible?
• What arrangements are currently in place to protect the NHS against cyber-attacks? 
• Whether the government will launch a full, independent inquiry into the events of yesterday?
• What reassurance is there that patient data has not been accessed or compromised?

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Patients and doctors have been revealing the impact of the NHS cyber-attack, via BBC News' Facebook page, external.

So what does Jonathan Munro mean about electoral support issues?

He explained the formula they used when deciding how much coverage to give each party, saying they were obliged by regulations to take into account the electoral support over two election cycles - two general elections and all the elections in between.

The Green Party has accepted an offer by the BBC to take part in an election questions programme on June 4.

It comes after the party objected to the amount of airtime UKIP was being given by the broadcaster in comparison. 

Jonthan Munro, who is overseeing the BBC's election programming, told Newswatch: "We do think in retrospect actually that the gap in what UKIP are getting and what the Greens is getting is too great.So we're going to make a change.

"What we've done is we've said to the Green Party 'we think the gap's too great at the moment, but you can't have equivalence to the other parties because of that electoral support issue. 

"So we've given them, we hope, a really good compromise."

Home Secretary Amber Rudd will chair a Cobra emergency meeting in Whitehall at 14.30 BST over the NHS cyber attack.

Mr Rudd was earlier unable to confirm all NHS files could now be accessed.

And she told Sky News: "It is disappointing that they have been running Windows XP - I know that the secretary of state for health has instructed them not to and most have moved off it." 

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Some more on Tom Watson's interview with the Guardian, external.  

Beyond the top headline, where the deputy Labour leader warns of a landslide victory for Theresa May, Mr Watson also touches on his own personal ambitions.

Mr Watson is familiar to many as the MP who took on Rupert Murdoch's News International over the phone-hacking scandal.

He tells the paper he hopes to be culture secretary after a Labour victory and try to put Mr Murdoch's bid for Sky on hold while the second part of the Leveson Inquiry into journalist ethics takes place. 

Home Secretary Amber Rudd spoke to BBC Breakfast earlier.

She told them she hoped hacked files were backed up as that would make the ransomware worthless. 

She expected to find out in the next few days if there were any holes.