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Barry Gardiner, shadow international trade secretary, says he is not surprised by Donald Trump's comments that Mr Corbyn would take the UK to "such bad places".

"Well President Trump is one of the richest people in the world," he says.

"Am I surprised he sides with the 1% super-rich in the UK... no I'm not.

"Of course he sides with the super-rich. Labour doesn't. So it's no surprise to me that he thinks it will bad news for people like him."

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MP Antoinette Sandbach, who has joined the Lib Dems after being expelled from the parliamentary Conservative Party last month, says the Tory Party has "moved their values... from where I was".

Ms Sandbach, who will stand as a Liberal Democrat candidate in next month's poll, says she considered not standing for re-election.

"Like many of the MPs that have stood down, I have been subjected to abuse."

"It has been incredibly difficult for my family and for me. But this is a critical time in our nation's history," she says.

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Government minister Robert Jenrick is asked for his reaction to US President Donald Trump's comments that the US can't do a trade deal with the UK under Boris Johnson's Brexit agreement.

"That's not how we see it," he replies.

"We think the new deal which the prime minister negotiated, which is a good deal, enables the whole of the UK to leave the EU customs union and that means that we can now strike free trade deals around the world."

He adds that "initial conversations with the US" about trade "have been completely positive".

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Asked whether he welcomed Donald Trump's endorsement of the prime minister, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick says a US president "can say what he or she wishes to do".

"We're obviously focused on our own domestic election," he adds.

And questioned on whether the Conservatives would, as Mr Trump suggested, do a pact with Nigel Farage, Mr Jenrick repllies: "We're not interested in doing any pacts with the Brexit Party, or indeed with anybody else".

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The US president expressed support for Boris Johnson, saying he was "the exact right guy for the times", and said Jeremy Corbyn would be "so bad" as prime minister.

In response, Mr Corbyn said the president was trying to interfere in the UK general election to boost "his friend", Mr Johnson.

Mr Trump also urged Mr Johnson to team up with Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage and become an “unstoppable force”.

"I would like to see you and Boris get together because you would really have some numbers, because you did fantastically in the election, the last election," he said.

"He has a lot of respect and like for you. I just wish you two guys could get together - I think it would be a great thing."

Mr Trump also called the Queen - who he met in June - a "great woman".

"I say that very seldom," he added. "I don't say that often, I have to say, about anybody. "But she is really very outstanding, and Prince Charles, so good, so good.

"He loves the environment. He loves your country so much. We had a great time, we'll get together. Really special people."

On Thursday evening, US President Donald Trump criticised the Brexit deal that Boris Johnson has struck with the EU.

In a phone interview on Nigel Farage’s LBC radio show, Mr Trump said the US "can't make a trade deal with the UK" under Mr Johnson’s deal.

But Downing Street hit back and said the deal meant "we can strike our own free trade deals around the world, from which every part of the UK will benefit".

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Welcome to our live coverage as politicians gear up for another day of campaigning for a general election on 12 December.

Although the official campaign begins next Wednesday when Parliament is formally shut down, political leaders are already setting out their key campaign messages.