Jeremy Corbyn and Angela Rayner speak in Blackpool as Johnson prepares to chair Cobra meeting on floodsFarage urged to stand aside in Tory target seatsLabour pledges six years of free adult studyLib Dem candidate quits over racist tweetsSign up to the election briefing 1.49pm GMT Jo Swinson has been paying a visit to the Doncaster charity Stainforth4All, speaking to volunteers who have rallied to help victims of the recent flooding. They showed the Lib Dem leader the piles of clothes and supplies donated by locals and said they were appalled that the prime minister hadn’t declared a national emergency. “I visited Fishlake [an area badly affected by the flooding] and it broke my heart,” said Rosemarie Squires through tears.I think it’s important, whether there’s an election or not, when things like this happen, for leaders to come and listen and to understand what is happening in communities.I’ve worked with Labour MPs who want to stop Brexit in parliament, but unfortunately the Labour leadership doesn’t want to stop Brexit and when the Unite to Remain alliance was put together they approached the Labour party who said absolutely not.If you look at this election, the Liberal Democrats are the party best placed to win seats from the Conservatives. The Labour party is way down in the polls compared to two years ago. They are going to be struggling to hold onto the seats that they have. They’re not going to be winning seats from the Tories. The Lib Dems can win seats from the Conservatives. A huge number of our target seats are against the Conservatives.It is absolutely right that he is no longer a candidate for us and that when these things come to light, the party takes swift action. It’s not feasible to have looked at every social media post over the past 15 years for every candidate. What we can control is that, when things like this happen, we take very swift action. 1.21pm GMT Here are the main points from the Jeremy Corbyn Q&A.What we have before us is an alliance between Donald Trump and Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson. We know where that alliance is designed to take us – into a sweetheart trade deal with the United States that will threaten all of our regulations, all of our conditions, and threaten our public services …Farage and Johnson only offer division, division, division, and a deal with Donald Trump. You’ll then be saying whatever happened to our wonderful national health service? Whatever happened to all the regulations that we had that protected our rights at work, our right to clean environment and our right to safe food. All of that is at risk from the kind of trade deal that they want to do with the USA. We will have none of it.We have a system in place in our office to protect us against these cyber-attacks, but it was a very serious attack against us. So far as we’re aware none of our information was downloaded and the attack was actually repulsed because we have an effective in-house developed system by people within our party.But if this is a sign of things to come in this election, I feel very nervous about it all because a cyber-attack against a political party in an election is suspicious, something one is very worried about.Our priority is investment in rail and bus infrastructure north of Birmingham, into the north-east, north-west and Yorkshire … As far as we’re concerned, that is the absolute priority. Because if we don’t improve transport links from Birmingham northwards … and develop the Crossrail for the north, which would be a high-speed, efficient line linking Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Hull, then I think we will see a problem in future economic development across the regions. Continue reading…
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