The prime minister is also out on the campaign trail and has been visiting Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, where he met staff and patients.

Meanwhile, Rupert Read - spokesman for environmental group Extinction Rebellion - points out today is ER's one-year anniversary.

Labour MP Clive Lewis on a policy that came out of the party's recent conference:

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Conservative MP Vicky Ford says if Jeremy Corbyn is elected it will be one of “the hardest, hard-left government’s I have seen in my lifetime”.

In Mr Corbyn's election launch he targeted "the elite", saying the party was going after "tax dodgers, dodgy landlords, bad bosses and big polluters".

Ms Ford tells the BBC's Politics Live that Labour are stirring up the politics of hate and its policy is not based on fact.

Labour’s Clive Lewis, speaking to the same programme, says what Labour is focusing on is rebalancing and redistributing some wealth and power.

He says: “What you have seen over the last 40 years, and what you have seen across the western world, is these gross levels of inequality – not just in terms of wealth but power as well.”

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The Jo Cox Foundation - set up after MP Ms Cox's murder - has attacked the "abhorrent" abuse aimed at female MPs, after four women cited bullying as their reason for standing down from Parliament.

In the past week, Tory MPs Caroline Spelman and Nicky Morgan, former Labour MP Louise Ellman and Liberal Democrat MP Heidi Allen have all cited abuse as contributing to their decision not to run in the forthcoming general election.

It comes three years after Ms Cox, the MP for Batley and Spen, was murdered in the street by a far-right activist, while earlier this year a white supremacist was jailed for a plot to kill fellow Labour MP Rosie Cooper.

Catherine Anderson, chief executive of the foundation, said: "One of Jo's great passions was encouraging more women to come forward as candidates, so it is very sad to see talented women standing down at this time."

She added that "while abuse and intimidation directed at those in public life is always abhorrent", evidence collected by the foundation showed "women are disproportionately more likely to be targets".

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An MP who quit the Labour Party in a protest over Jeremy Corbyn's leadership will not stand in the next election.

Ann Coffey, who has represented Stockport since 1992, made the announcement on Twitter.

The 73-year-old, who became a founder member of Change UK, said she made the choice after "a lot of consideration".

She was one of seven Labour MPs who resigned in February amid concerns about Mr Corbyn's stance on Brexit and alleged anti-semitism in his party.

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That speech went down incredibly well here - Mr Corbyn was repeatedly interrupted by cheers.

At one point they were all stamping their feet, saying "not for sale, not for sale" - a reference to the NHS being on the table in any future trade talks.

Clearly his message of "real change", of a "once in a generation" moment when Labour could transform society, resonates with people here - party supporters, the party faithful.

The question is whether outside of here there is a similar hunger for that sweeping, radical change.

The calculation in Labour circles is that the hunger is there, and that there is a broader fatigue with austerity and a sense that things never really change.

Mr Corbyn was asked whether, for example, Emily Thornberry would be foreign secretary if Labour won the election.

BBC political correspondent Chris Mason says there has been a change of tack by the Conservatives for this election campaign compared to 2017.

He says there was a real awareness that a couple of years ago "they were caught on the hop" by Labour campaigning about things like the NHS when they were focusing on Brexit.

He says Boris Johnson spent the morning at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridgeshire as the party aims to step away from the question of Brexit and focus on day-to-day concerns.

Asked how he would vote in a new referendum on Brexit, Mr Corbyn says Labour would immediately negotiate a new deal.

"Within six months that offer, alongside Remain, would be put to the British people.

"In the meantime, our party will come together in the way we always do, discuss that, and decide what we're going to do.

"But basically it will be about bringing our communities together and putting the issue behind us."

Reality Check

Mr Corbyn said he would be on the side of children with special education needs (SEN), whose school funding he said had been cut.

There've been lots of changes to the way SEN is funded and carried out in England, so it's hard to compare over the longer term.

We do know that there are 14% more children in England with SEN plans than there were in 2015. But the increase in funding hasn't kept up with growing needs and costs, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, external. The IFS says that although funding has increased from £5.3 billion to £6.3bn since 2015, funding per pupil has dropped 8% because of rising prices and pupil numbers.

It’s difficult to compare with the last Labour government as this ring-fenced funding is new - previously funding for special educational needs was part of the overall school budget and allocated locally. Per pupil spending did increase year-on-year, though.

Mr Corbyn is now facing questions from the media.

Asked about Brexit, he says: "We have to take no-deal off the table.

"That is why I refuse to support any move that would allow Boris Johnson to take this country out without a deal.

"The extension was granted, now we're in an election campaign."

He adds that, if Labour were in power, it would "immediately" engage in talks with the EU about a "sensible relationship" that "doesn't destroy jobs".