Labour party supporters are awaiting leader Jeremy Corbyn at Beaumont Park near Huddersfield this afternoon.

West Yorkshire Police have apparently had to move a van that was blocking Mr Corbyn's bus en-route.

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European newspapers' focus today is mainly on Theresa May’s announcement of measures to boost employment rights.

French business paper Les Echos calls it a “break in the history of the British right” which will appeal to pro-Brexit "protest voters" who reject the liberal market and globalisation. However it warns that the move risks “angering the right-wing fringe of her own party, which wants to use Brexit to 'complete the Thatcher revolution’ of free market reforms".

Similarly, Spain’s ABC sees it as a move away from the economic liberalism of the Cameron-Osborne era into "Red Tory" territory.

German papers are more interested in how the Tory’s "hard Brexit" rhetoric is playing with German companies that trade with Britain. 

Der Spiegel reports on a survey conducted by Deloitte consultants which says 20% of the companies expect negotiations to end without a deal for Britain. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung says most of the companies involved are “intensively preparing their options” in the event of a hard Brexit, including moving their London offices back to Germany.

Meanwhile, Italy’s Corriere della Sera reports on Mrs May’s encounter with a disgruntled voter yesterday, calling it an "embarrassing incident during the prime minister’s first attempt to escape from the bubble her staff keep her locked up in".

Theresa May says it would boost the Welsh economy by £100m a year.

And in other election campaign developments today:

• Plaid Cymru has launched its manifesto promising to give Wales a "strong voice" during Brexit. Here's our at-a-glance guide to it.
• Theresa May has been visiting a free school in Birmingham. Her choice of location is interesting - the seat had a big Labour majority in 2015
• Tim Farron has launched his party's business manifesto, promising help for entrepreneurs. He's also pushing his plans for more "rent-to-buy" homes 
• Nicola Sturgeon has used the 10-year anniversary of the SNP's rise to power in Scotland to attack the party's opponents and stress why their dominance at Holyrood has to continue

A quick recap of the day so far:

• Labour has unveiled pledges costing £48.6bn - to be funded from extra tax revenue - in its election manifesto.
• For the full breakdown on what's included, we've done you an at-a-glance guide.
• Our political editor has also analysed things for you. Bottom line: this is certainly a radical shift for Labour.
• The main post-launch talking points? What does it cost to renationalise major industries like water and rail? The manifesto doesn't say
• And will Labour unfreeze benefits? Jeremy Corbyn seemed to say yes in his Q&A, but now he says there's no commitment on that
• The Conservatives say the sums don't add up and ordinary people will pay
• The Greens and the SNP both think Labour is stealing their ideas
• The Lib Dems are attacking them for not devoting more of the manifesto to setting out an alternative to Theresa May's "extreme Brexit"

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Labour has unveiled pledges totalling £48.6bn in its election manifesto - all of which the party says is fully costed. 

But when challenged on many of the spending commitments, including capping the state pension age at 66, Labour's shadow business secretary, Rebecca Long-Bailey, said they would "be setting out our stall on that in due course" and gave no precise figures or further details. 

Our colleagues in Analysis and Research note that perhaps the most significant change to this section is a softening of language on Israeli settlements, including a mention of Palestinian rockets. 

Draft:

“Labour is committed to a comprehensive peace in the Middle East based on a two-state solution - that means a secure Israel alongside a secure and viable state of Palestine. The expansion of Israeli settlements on the Palestinian West Bank is not only wrong and illegal, but represents a threat to the very viability of the hopes of securing a successful outcome of the peace process. 

Final version:

“Labour is committed to a comprehensive peace in the Middle East based on a two-state solution - a secure Israel alongside a secure and viable state of Palestine. There can be no military solution to this conflict and all sides must avoid taking action that would make peace harder to achieve. That means both an end to the blockade, occupation and settlements,and an end to rocket and terror attacks.

The first line of the manifesto on this topic has been toughened up since the draft version, with the addition of the sentence in bold:

“Labour will take all necessary measures to protect the security of our citizens and country. We will put conflict resolution and human rights at the heart of foreign policy, commit to working through the UN, end support for unilateral aggressive wars of intervention and bac􀁎 effective action to alleviate the refugee crisis.”

Further on, there's an increased emphasis on climate change which has been added into the list of global security challenges alongside things like war and nuclear weapons.

The language on President Trump has also changed. The draft manifesto referred to him as "more combative" and lumped the US and Russia together under that description.

The two countries are now separated - Russian remains "combative" but the US administration is now "erratic".

BBC Bristol is hosting a special election debate on Wednesday 31 May with candidates from all the major political parties taking part.

We’d love for you to join John Darvall and all the candidates in the hotly contested seat of Bristol East. 

The event will take place at Hungerford Community Centre in Brislington.

It’s free to come along and ask your question. 

Simply email your name and contact number to radio.bristol@bbc.co.uk or call 0345 900 5 949.    

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Tim Farron has said the Liberal Democrats are "the only party offering you hope that our children's future can be a better one".

Talking specifically about his "rent to own" plans, he said they were aimed at ensuring people could get a foot on the housing ladder.  

More on the subject of Labour's exact plans on benefits and how much of the Tory welfare changes will be undone.

Jeremy Corbyn told Laura Kuenssberg there would be "a lot of changes on it", but added: "Bear in mind we've had two weeks in order to prepare all of these policy issues because of the speed at which the election has been called.

"I accept the challenge. We've produced, I think, a very well thought out and very credible manifesto in a very short space of time."

He adds with a smile and perhaps more in hope that expectation: "I think we deserve some credit for that actually, but it's all right."

Conservatives will use a "blank cheque" after the general election to 'rob Wales', Plaid's leader says.

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In its election manifesto launched today, Labour has unveiled pledges costing £48.6bn - to be funded from extra tax revenue.

Businessman John Mills is a major donor to the Labour Oarty and is chair of the campaign group Labour Future.

He told BBC Radio 4's The World at One that there was a danger that "if businesses are hit too hard, and the economy doesn't grow, then funding all these promises is going to be a lot more difficult", and "a balance has to be struck".

We all know elections are a serious issue but plumber, Paul Billington, from Rotherham, who's got a sideline in singing has decided to use his music to take a wry look at some of the runners and riders. 

Here's his anthem for General Election 2017   

More on the Plaid Cymru manifesto - there's a big Brexit focus in the document. The party says it will:

• ensure that Wales can continue to buy and sell to Europe without any costly barriers
• secure the money promised to Wales by the Leave campaign, and not accept a penny less
• insist that all future trade deals are endorsed by the National Assembly for Wales
• guarantee the rights of all Europeans currently living and working in Wales

Read the guide to the Plaid policy package 

First Minister of Scotland and leader of the SNP Nicola Sturgeon, has been marking a decade since the SNP got into power at Holyrood. 

She told voters to back her party in the general election on 8 June to "stand up for Scotland" against what she called Tory cuts and the possibility of an extreme Brexit. 

Her deputy Angus Robertson, meanwhile, says many of the pledges in the Labour manifesto are already being delivered in Scotland by the SNP administration. 

"Scrapping hospital parking charges, free tuition, publicly-owned water, ending the bedroom tax, increasing renewable energy and expanding free childcare will all seem familiar to voters in Scotland... 

"But of course, no amount of headline-chasing policy announcements can paper over the enormous cracks within the weak and divided Labour Party."

Jeremy Corbyn has been talking to our political editor about his renationalisation plans. 

He says water company dividends have gone up massively, alongside big increases in bills for consumers. 

"I think it is only right that our water industry should be in public ownership as it is in Scotland," he tells Laura.

"The process of doing that may well be a bond issue, and instead of the profits being siphoned off elsewhere they'll be here and invested."

But why no ball park figure for the cost of renationalising four major industries, he's asked.

"Because we don't know what the share price would be at the time that we do it," he replies.

The Labour leader said the cost would be "neutral" if bonds were issued in return for buying company shares - but of course, that would greatly increase government debt, something the manifesto doesn't mention.