Conservative David Gauke, so often the voice of the Treasury under George Osborne, has given his, predictably damning, assessment of Jeremy Corbyn's plans.

He says the Labour manifesto "contains a number of tax proposals that are likely to damage the economy, damage wealth creation and feed through into hitting wages".

Jeremy Corbyn plans to create a £250bn National Transformation Fund to upgrade the country's infrastructure, including transport.

Edmund King, president of motoring organisation the AA, said his body supported the idea, but "the traffic seems to be mostly one way - from road to rail". 

"The 85% of passenger journeys by road and 90% of freight will not just disappear or all transfer to rail."

But he continued: “On the positive side we support improvements to the dangerous A1 north of Newcastle and improving the A30 in Cornwall. Scrapping tolls on the Severn Bridge is a positive step as this is a tax on Wales whilst all Scottish tolls have already been scrapped. We should all strive for a transport network with zero deaths, and reintroducing road-safety targets should help.”

Greenpeace UK's head of public affairs Rosie Rogers said the manifesto painted a "compelling vision", but contained little detail on implementation.

"If Labour can make good on their pledge to source 60% of our energy from zero-carbon or renewable sources by 2030, Britain could be mostly powered by cutting-edge clean technologies that would also provide skilled jobs, fairer bills and cleaner air," she said.

"Backing community-owned energy projects and ditching the top-down imposition of unpopular fracking is a smart move and a new drive to insulate millions of homes will help cut energy bills too. 

 "But setting targets is one thing and hitting them quite another."

A bit more on Labour's plans for border security. The draft manifesto leaked last week said it would "recruit 1,000 new border guards".

However, the final version has cut the number. It says:

“The Conservatives promised and failed to deliver 100 per cent exit checks at the borders. Labour will recruit 500 more border guards to add to our safeguards and controls.”

Andrew Neil
Presenter, The Daily Politics

Reaction is starting to come in to the Labour manifesto from beyond the political world. 

Dr Adam Marshall, Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce, says "high personal taxation, sweeping nationalisation and deep intervention in business decision-making are not the hallmarks of an ambitious and enterprising society".

He says there are "bright spots", for example, plans to reform the system of business rates and to give an immediate guarantee for EU nationals currently in the UK.

But he adds: “While Labour are making some specific and targeted propositions that could boost the growth prospects of small- and medium-sized firms, these will be largely eclipsed by their proposals for higher personal and business taxes in the eyes of business leaders around the UK.”

Ellie Price
Daily and Sunday Politics reporter

The claim: The price of water has risen by 40% above inflation since privatisation.

Reality Check verdict: The figure is correct for the period since privatisation in 1989 for England and Wales. Most recent figures show the price of the average household bill in England and Wales fell by 2.6% in real terms between 2009-10 and 2014-15.

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• Create a National Education Service for England to incorporate all forms of education
• Overhaul existing childcare system and extend the 30 hours of free childcare to all two-year-olds
• Reduce class sizes to "less than 30" for five, six and seven-year-old children
• Devolve responsibility for skills to city regions or devolved administrations
• Scrap university tuition fees and reintroduce maintenance grants for students

The announcement of an end to university tuition fees under Labour got the biggest cheer from the assembled - youthful - crowd in Bradford. But the Daily Record's Westminster editor is one at least who doesn't think the policy is all it's cracked up to be:

Andrew Neil
Presenter, The Daily Politics

On justice:

• Retain the Human Rights Act
• Launch inquiries into the Battle of Orgreave and union blacklisting
• Review legal aid means tests
• Reintroduce funding for the preparation of judicial review cases
• Introduce a no-fault divorce procedure

On prisons and probation:

• Commitment to recruit 3,000 more prison officers and publish ratios for number of officers to prisoners
• No new private prisons
• No privatisation of existing public sector ones  

On policing:

• Commitment to recruit 10,000 more police officers - targeted at community policing
• Appointment of commissioner to set new standards for tackling domestic and sexual violence
• National Refuge Fund and ensure stability for rape crisis centres

On security and counter-terrorism:

• Retain cross-border security co-operation agreements with Europe and beyond
• Provide security agencies with resources and powers to protect country. But ensure those powers don't weaken individual rights or civil liberties
• Ensure judicial oversight of exercise of investigatory powers. 
• Review of Prevent programme to assess effectiveness and potential alienation of minority communities. 

On border security:

• Commitment to recruit 500 more border guards

On fire and rescue:

• Commitment to recruit 3,000 more Firefighters
• Reinstate separate governance for Fire and Police Services (i.e reverse govt plans to allow police and crime commissioners to run fire services

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Labour's leader in Scotland Kezi Dugdale is at the launch and has thrown her support behind the manifesto.

The top pledges:

• Build at least 100,000 council and housing association homes a year by end of the next Parliament, for "genuinely affordable rent or sale"
• Guarantee Help to Buy funding until 2027 and give locals buying their first home "first dibs on new homes built in their area"
• Legislate to ban letting agency fees for tenants, and look at giving the Mayor of London power to give London renters "additional security"
• Make 4,000 additional homes available for rough sleepers to end homelessness