Summary

  • Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay has been out launching his party's plans to deliver an extra £30bn a year for the NHS in England

  • The health service is in a "desperate situation", he tells the BBC - outlining a "fully-costed" proposal for the "very richest" to pay more tax

  • It would include a 1% tax on assets over £10m and 2% on assets over £1bn, which he says would raise "tens of billions" over the next five years

  • In Scotland, Douglas Ross has announced that he'll stand for a Westminster seat at the election, having previously said he wouldn't

  • The Scottish Tory leader is replacing former minister David Duguid as the candidate in Aberdeenshire North and Moray East - Duguid is unwell

  • Meanwhile, PM Rishi Sunak, Labour leader Keir Starmer and other party leaders - including the SNP's John Swinney - are in Normandy today commemorating D-Day

Live Reporting

Edited by Sophie Abdulla and Emily Atkinson

  1. D-Day pause for Scottish campaign

    Andrew Kerr
    Scotland political correspondent

    It's a very different feel to the general election campaign in Scotland today.

    Day-to-day campaign trail skirmishes will be paused to remember a much bigger conflict.

    The D-Day landings safeguarded our democracy and paved the way for the re-introduction of democracy to north-western Europe.

    The King and Queen will pay tribute to fallen soldiers at the UK's national commemoration event at the British Normandy Memorial.

    The prime minister and the first minister of Scotland will be there in Ver-sur-Mer, along with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer. Commemorative services are also being held across Scotland.

    Incidentally, John Swinney's uncle was awarded the Victoria Cross in WWII. Royal Marine Commando Tom Hunter was serving in Italy and the VC was awarded posthumously.

    Swinney's visit to France will mean he's not available for First Minister's Questions in the Scottish Parliament, so his deputy Kate Forbes will fill in.

  2. A look at today's front pages

    The front page of The Telegraph newspaperThe Telegraph

    Taking a look at today’s papers, many of them focus on the 80th anniversary of D-Day, but there’s still quite a bit of politics.

    The Guardian leads on accusations that Rishi Sunak lied by saying independent Treasury officials were behind a claim on the cost of Labour’s plans, after a top civil servant said they were "not involved" in the calculation.

    The Times carries a report about an expected Tory election pledge, which would raise the minimum sentence for murders committed in the home from 15 years to 25 years.

    And The Daily Telegraph front page features a poll - carried out by YouGov with about 2,000 voters - which puts Reform UK just two points behind the Tories.

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    The front page of the Guardian newspaperThe Guardian

  3. Ready, steady, campaign

    Sam Hancock
    Live editor

    Good morning and welcome to another day of election coverage.

    We're potentially in for a quieter day than we've been used to on the campaign trail so far, as the majority of party leaders are in Normandy commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day landings. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Labour leader Keir Starmer and the SNP's John Swinney are among those there.

    Not to worry, though, there's still various events and political happenings for us to bring you. The Greens are set to launch their plans for the NHS later and Lib Dem leader Ed Davey is out campaigning - so no doubt there'll be a photo op or two.

    There's also the hangover from this dispute between Sunak and Starmer over claims the PM made during the pair's first live TV debate - that tax would go up by £2,000 under Labour and the figure had come from "independent Treasury officials" (something the department later distanced itself from).

    We'll continue to keep an eye on on that and bring you the latest throughout the day.