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Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments, including the US president’s radio interview with Nigel Farage and the 2019 general election campaign PM accused of withholding key Russia report from voters Jeremy Corbyn’s speech and Q&A - Summary and analysis Corbyn refuses to say if he would quit if Labour loses election Afternoon summary 6.06pm GMT World Exclusive: President @realDonaldTrump told @Nigel_Farage, Corbyn “would be so bad for your country, he’d take you into such bad places” #TrumpOnLBC pic.twitter.com/bbECEYbYSC 5.51pm GMT On Radio 4’s PM programme Andy McDonald, the shadow transport secretary, dismissed President Trump’s claim that a Jeremy Corbyn government would take Britain into a bad place. (See 5.28pm.) McDonald said: I think the bad place a lot of Americans experienced [is] at the hands of Donald Trump. So I’m really not concerned that Nigel Farage and Donald Trump have reaffirmed their commitment to one another. We do know that the American pharmaceutical industry is very interested in our national health service and we have made it abundantly clear that the NHS is not for sale and Donald Trump is not going get anywhere near our NHS. And nor are we enthused at the prospect of chlorinated chicken and hormone-injected beef coming into our country with low standards for food safety. We are not going to be tolerating anything like that. 5.43pm GMT Here is some comment from journalists on the Trump interview. From the BBC’s Jon Sopel Incredible statement from @realDonaldTrump on #GeneralElection19 - in effect calls for @Nigel_Farage and @BorisJohnson to work together; says @jeremycorbyn “would be so bad for your country.” So much for staying out of other countries elections pic.twitter.com/awJqpGAqpZ Donald Trump intervenes telling Nigel Farage via @LBC : ‘You and Boris Johnson, if you got together, would be an unstoppable force. Jeremy Corbyn would be so bad for your country’ -Labour should play that quote over and over and over again pic.twitter.com/o77G2e4bPM Donald Trump going on LBC to heap praise on Boris and attack Corbyn is exactly what Corbyn needs and exactly what Boris doesn’t need. 5.28pm GMT The Brexit party leader, Nigel Farage, has recorded an interview with his political ally Donald Trump for his LBC radio show. The whole thing is being broadcast later, but LBC has just broadcast a clip, and it included Trump saying that he thought Farage should be uniting in some way with Boris Johnson. Together Johnson and Farage would be an “unstoppable force”, Trump said. Trump also said that there were aspects of Johnson’s Brexit deal that would obstruct a UK-US trade deal. He said: To be honest with you, this deal, under certain aspects of the deal, you can’t do it, you can’t do it, you can’t trade. We can’t make a trade deal with the UK … Under certain ways, we’re precluded - which would be ridiculous. Corbyn would be so bad for your country, he’d be so bad, he’d take you on such a bad way. He’d take you into such bad places. Hear me talk to President Trump at 6pm tonight on LBC. We will be discussing Brexit, Boris, Corbyn, the NHS and impeachment. pic.twitter.com/v2v2PZ82AF 5.16pm GMT The legislation to allow the early election has now had royal assent, the BBC’s Nick Eardley reports. Royal Assent granted for Early Election Act 12 December is official 4.43pm GMT With John Bercow standing down as Speaker at the end of today, here is a Guardian compilation of some of the highlights of his time in the chair. 4.37pm GMT Boris Johnson was booed as he ended a visit to Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, the Cambridge News reports. There is a story here and a live blog covering the visit here. The pro-Labour Skwawkbox blog has also posted some footage. Johnson flees Addenbrookes hospital to loud booing by staff, patients and campaigners. One staff member asked, “What the **** did he think was going to happen?” For more, see https://t.co/J6OCvS74Rt pic.twitter.com/JcwpakHNPa 4.24pm GMT These are from Mark Urban, Newsnight’s diplomatic editor, on the story that Boris Johnson has been accused of holding back the publication of a report from parliament’s intelligence and security report looking at the issue of Russian interference in British elections. The Parliamentary Intelligence & Security Cttee report on Russian actions against the UK was sent to No10 on 17/10 with the idea it should be released on 28/10, before the election, but No10 has not signed it off 1/3 I understand that the Int & Sec Cttee report includes evidence from the UK intelligence services concerning Russian attempts to influence the outcome of the 2016 Brexit referendum and 2017 General Election 2/3 The report will have to be released by Tuesday at latest before current committee is dissolved, & failure to do so because of a refusal by No10 to sign it off may be seen by many as an attempt to suppress evidence of previous Russian attempts to subvert UK polls 3/3 4.14pm GMT Labour would rather run a minority government if necessary than try to form a coalition or pact with another party, the shadow chancellor John McDonnell has said. Speaking to Sky News this morning, at the Labour campaign launch, McDonnell said he expected the party to win a majority. But when asked what would happen if it didn’t, but if it was still in a position to govern (ie, it was the largest party in a hung parliament), he replied: We would run a minority government. We’d implement the policies and we’d expect the other parties to support them. If they didn’t, well, we’ll go back to the people. Look, who wouldn’t vote for a £10 living wage? Who wouldn’t vote for the way in which we want to solve Brexit, going back to the people? Who wouldn’t vote for actually ensuring we invested in all our public services, and a fair taxation system? No deals, no deals. We do in as a majority government. If there is a minority, we will implement our manifesto, full stop. 3.50pm GMT Jeremy Corbyn has said that Labour will “immediately” start rehousing the homeless if it wins the election. Speaking at a campaign event in Milton Keynes, Corbyn called the level of homelessness in the UK a “disgrace and insult to our country”, and promised a Labour government would end austerity. As the Press Assocaition reports, he said: On our first day in office, we will immediately buy all the properties necessary to house the rough sleepers. 3.42pm GMT Boris Johnson made an election stop at a primary school in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, where he joined a group of children in an activity sorting pictures of London into past and present, the Press Association reports. The PM held one black and white image aloft and suggested “past?”. One pupil agreed and said it “looks dirtier”, to which the prime minister replied: “That was when Ken Livingstone was running it.” Referring to a photo of London Bridge, Johnson told the youngsters: “You know what they used to do? They used to stick the decapitated heads of the enemies on spikes.” 3.28pm GMT At the last election the conventional opinion polls turned out to be a very poor guide to the result. On that basis some people argue they should be ignored completely, but the political parties take them seriously, they are better than most other ways of trying to gauge public opinion and even sceptics will admit that they pick up movements in opinion, even if they don’t provide a reliable guide to the final result. With that in mind, here are the results of the three polls around today. Mr Johnson has the best personal scores of any leader since 2017, with 46% satisfied and 44% dissatisfied — a net score of plus 2. Conservatives are overwhelmingly happy with their leader, with 80% satisfied and 9% dissatisfied. Westminster voting intention: CON: 41% (+8) LAB: 24% (-) LDEM: 20% (-3) BREX: 7% (-3) GRN: 3% (-1) via @IpsosMORI, 25 - 28 Oct Latest Westminster voting intention (29-30 Oct) Con - 36% Lab - 21% Lib Dem - 18% Brexit Party - 13% Green - 6% Other - 6%https://t.co/H0i9cEjDBW pic.twitter.com/OFE7zR3Y8T Asked which leader had the best health policies, 36% of voters said Mr Johnson while 34% opted for Mr Corbyn. We have new Westminster voting intention figures in tomorrow’s Daily Mail. Both Labour and the Conservatives have seen a small increase in support in the past 2 weeks. pic.twitter.com/f2a1TGvql1 3.03pm GMT I missed this picture earlier. Perhaps Jeremy Corbyn was practising for when he meets the Queen … 2.59pm GMT The House of Commons has just approved the recommendation from the Commons standards committee for Keith Vaz to be suspended for six months for offering to buy drugs for sex workers. The motion was passed without a division. With parliament due to be dissolved at the end of Tuesday ahead of the general election, the decision may have little practical effect. Vaz is under pressure not to stand again as a candidate. (See 9.47am). He can try to smear me, he will get the square root of nowhere. 2.30pm GMT Here is a good question from below the line. It’s being reported that Jeremy Corbyn has the lowest approval rating of any opposition leader since 1977. But the leader of the opposition in 1977 was Margaret Thatcher, who went on to win three general elections. Am I missing something? 1.43pm GMT Boris Johnson has been accused of sitting on a key report assessing the threat posed by Russia to Britain’s democratic processes, the Press Association reports. The former attorney general Dominic Grieve argued voters must have access to the report by the intelligence and security committee, which he chairs, given an election has been called for 12 December. He said it was “unacceptable” for the prime minister to “sit on it”, informing the Commons that Johnson should have confirmed on Thursday that no classified matters were remaining in the report. The full story is here. Related: Johnson accused of withholding key report on Russia from voters 1.41pm GMT After his failure to meet his cast-iron, “do or die” pledge to deliver Brexit by 31 October (today), you might have thought that Boris Johnson would think twice before setting a fresh deadline for Brexit. But he has been at it again. During a visit to Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge, he said if the Conservatives were elected, Brexit would definitely happen by the end of January. He said: If you vote for us and we get our programme through … then we can be out at the absolute latest by January next year. 1.32pm GMT This morning the Telegraph splashed on a story saying the Brexit party could stand aside in hundreds of seats - a move that could considerably help the Conservatives, who are at risk from the pro-Brexit vote being split. As Gordon Rayner and James Rothwell report in their story (paywall): Splits have emerged in Nigel Farage’s party over its election strategy, with several senior figures backing the ‘sensible’ option of focusing its resources on a small number of Leave-voting Labour seats that it stands a realistic chance of winning. One senior Brexit party MEP suggested the party could field as few as 20 candidates, while other sources suggested the figure would be nearer 100. This is idle speculation. I have not spoken to anyone of any seniority in the party [about this]. The Daily Telegraph: Brexit party could aid Tories by not fighting hundreds of seats #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/uZZgYXoAVI 1.26pm GMT The Lib Dems have confirmed they are standing aside in Beaconsfield to help Dominic Grieve, the former Tory, run as a pro-remain independent candidate. Rob Castell, the party’s former parliamentary candidate, said it was true that he would step back because of these “unprecedented times”. Grieve, a supporter of a second referendum and key architect of the parliamentary battle against no deal, said today: I will run as an independent. I have no idea what the outcome will be. All I can do is offer myself to my constituents as an individual. If they want me, I’m here to serve. If they don’t, no hard feelings. 1.19pm GMT At first minister’s questions in the Scottish parliament the Scottish Tories’ interim leader, Jackson Carlaw, immediately asked Nicola Sturgeon if she’d like to thank Jeremy Corbyn for allowing her a second independence referendum. (Actually Corbyn was yesterday using the same form of words that the Labour leadership has done since the summer: opposing independence but not refusing another referendum, though not in early years of a Labour government. The trouble is that this contradicts Scottish Labour’s official policy and, like their Brexit stance, isn’t easy to put across on the doorsteps.) 1.10pm GMT Jeremy Corbyn will be pleased with that speech. It had a clear message, it was very well received from the activists in the hall and even the Mail on Sunday’s Dan Hodges, who has cast more vitriol over Corbyn than almost anyone else in the British commentariat, had to concede that Corbyn had done a good job. It did not contain any surprises, but it set out Labour’s platform quite compellingly. Low bar. But that was one of Corbyn’s most effective performances. Boris has a fight on his hands here, especially with the Trump/NHS line. It’s not about me. It’s not about any individual on this platform. It’s not a presidential election … It’s about each and every one of us standing as labour candidates - the Labour shadow cabinet or any other position - with all the diversity that we’ve got and all the different life experiences we bring to this country and to our party and to our parliament. Yes, I do want our NHS to be one where everyone delivering the services of the NHS are NHS employees, part of the family of NHS employees. For starters, we will definitely be making sure that all those private schools – public schools as they call themselves – will actually have to pay their taxes in a fair and proper way. I do keep in touch with, obviously, political leaders around the country because that is what leading the party is all about. You know what, when we go into government, it’s going to be so much different and so much better, because we’ll have a different world and a different society and take government that doesn’t try and divide people, but instead tries to bring them together. Nicola Sturgeon has just called Corbyn “useless” at #FMQs https://t.co/VpfCqN9nBh I’ll be all over the country, meeting people, listening to people and taking that message there. And I ask our media, as good journalists, to just report what we say. 12.24pm GMT This is what Jeremy Corbyn said when asked about his own personal extremely low approval ratings. He said it was not a “presidential election”. It was Labour’s platform that mattered, he said. He explained: It’s not about me. It’s not about any individual on this platform. It’s not a presidential election … It’s about each and every one of us standing as Labour candidates – the Labour shadow cabinet or any other position – with all the diversity that we’ve got and all the different life experiences we bring to this country and to our party and to our parliament. 12.09pm GMT The event is now over. I will post a summary shortly. 12.08pm GMT Corbyn is now taking questions from Labour supporters at the event. Q: What will Labour do to improve youth services? 11.58am GMT More questions. Q: Are you part of the Islington elite? 11.51am GMT Jeremy Corbyn is now taking questions. Q: Your pitch to the public is similar to your one in 2017. Why do you think the message will work now when you did not win then? 11.39am GMT From the Scotsman’s Paris Gourtsoyannis There weren’t any mentions of Scotland or Wales in the text handout of this speech, but Corbyn has gone off script to squeeze them in as part of list of people who “win” from a Labour government 11.38am GMT Corbyn is now on his peroration. Boris Johnson thought he was being smart holding this election in a dark and cold December. He thinks you won’t go out to vote. He thinks you won’t go out to campaign. Well I say this: Labour will be out there in every city, town and village with the biggest and most confident campaign that our country has ever seen, bringing a message of hope and change to every community. 11.36am GMT Back in Battersea Arts Centre Corbyn says: when Labour wins, everyone wins. Hundreds of thousands of people in every part of our country who will make this the biggest people-powered campaign in history. We’re young, we’re old, we’re black, we’re white, we’re straight, we’re gay, we’re women, we’re men, we’re people of all faiths and none, from the north and from the south. 11.36am GMT The Conservative party press office is posting tweets rebutting Corbyn’s speech as he delivers it. Here are some examples. What Corbyn won’t mention: Under the @Conservatives The rich are paying more in income taxes than they did under Labour We’ve taken over 4 million of the lowest paid workers out of paying income tax altogether #inconvenienttruths This is what Labour’s plans to renationalise would costhttps://t.co/9H4hcpwRuB Corbyn asks whose side are you on. But whose side is Corbyn on? https://t.co/2BZRtcJ6j1 11.32am GMT Corbyn says Boris Johnson wants people to think that Brexit is being blocked by an establishment elite. But people know that the Conservatives are the establishment elite, he says. Corbyn is now using the “whose side are you on” passage I quoted earlier. (See 9.24am.) 11.30am GMT Corbyn says a decade of Conservative cuts has done huge damage to the country. After a decade when real wages have fallen, for too many people, what they see is the community they love being run down through years of deliberate neglect. The evidence of a decade of economic vandalism is all around them. It’s there in the boarded up shops. In the closed library and swimming pool. In youth centres that have closed their doors. The high street like a ghost town. The elderly couple who are scared to walk down their road because violent crime has doubled. The army veteran sleeping under blankets in a doorway. People struggling to make ends meet. The mother and her children eating from a food bank because they’ve been forced onto universal credit. 11.28am GMT Corbyn turns to the claim that Brexit could open up the NHS to American corporations. Despite his denials, the NHS is up for grabs by US corporations in a one-sided Trump trade sell-out. Channel 4 Dispatches revealed this week that the cost of drugs and medicines has repeatedly been discussed between US and UK trade officials. Remember Johnson’s famous promise of £350m a week for the NHS? Well his toxic Brexit trade deal with Trump could hand over £500m a week of NHS money to big drugs corporations. 11.24am GMT Corbyn turns to Brexit. Friends, today is the 31st of October, the day Boris Johnson promised we would leave the EU. He said he would rather be “dead in a ditch” than delay beyond today. But he has failed. And that failure is his alone. You can’t trust Boris Johnson. 11.21am GMT Corbyn says this election is a once-in-a-generation chance to transform the country, and to ensure that no community in any part of the country is ever left behind again. Some people say real change is not possible, he says. Really? A health service where people do not have to wait, and prescriptions are free? Is that asking too much? What about real action on the climate crisis by creating hundreds of thousands of new, green energy jobs in communities where they’re most desperately needed? No, that’s not asking too much. Because we have to radically change course now to avoid living on a hostile and dying planet. 11.17am GMT Jeremy Corbyn is speaking now. He says he is launching the most ambitious and radical campaign the country has ever seen. 11.13am GMT De Cordova is talking about her constituents who have been affected by government spending cuts. And, on Brexit, she says regardless of how people voted, no one voted for their living standards to go down. Battersea voted overwhelmingly to remain, as she did, she says. 11.10am GMT Marsha de Cordova, the Labour MP for Battersea, is introducing Jeremy Corbyn. The event is in Battersea Arts Centre. She won the seat from the Tories in 2017 with a majority of 2,416. 11.06am GMT The event is starting now. Jeremy Corbyn and the shadow cabinet are coming in. 11.05am GMT From the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg Jeremy Corbyn about to launch Labour campaign in packed out arts centre in London’s Battersea - Labour took the seat from Tories in 2017, will hope to repeat the trick in other London seats this time round 10.56am GMT The Labour campaign launch is due to start at 11am. These are from the BBC’s Peter Saull, who is there. At the Labour general election launch. One old slogan, one new. “For the many, not the few” and “It’s time for real change.” #ge2019 pic.twitter.com/ELrvAzM1aV Some interesting t-shirt designs at the Labour campaign launch. #ge2019 pic.twitter.com/6PQHzmBYMK Some very fired up Labour activists in the room. One angrily remonstrating about Boris Johnson, suggesting that the former mayor of London should take some responsibility for failing to prevent the Grenfell Tower tragedy. #ge2019 10.51am GMT Last night Nicky Morgan, the culture secretary, announced that she would be standing down from parliament. In an interview with the BBC’s Radio Leicester this morning, she insisted that she was leaving not “for any reasons of disagreement with the prime minister or the direction of the government at all”. She said the abuse she had received as an MP had contributed to the decision, adding: I think the role of being an MP has changed. I think the abuse, because of the platforms, because of how strongly people feel about the current political situation, that has changed enormously in the almost 10 years since I started. 58 (yes, we’re going backwards)https://t.co/n4UjaFAgBM h/t @thhamilton pic.twitter.com/AdV7byTFTZ A party that in quick succession loses Amber Rudd, Nicky Morgan, Ken Clarke, David Lidington, Philip Hammond, Nick Boles, Jo Johnson and Dominic Grieve has serious thinking to do about its future - if it has one We were told it would be moderate Labour MPs who would be culled on the eve of the election. Instead it seems to be the Conservative Party that has been taken over by extremists This seems to miss the point. It’s not that the numbers are disproportionate. It’s that more of those who cite abuse as a reason fir leaving are female. Either it’s happening to men too and they choose not to say. Or it’s worse for women. https://t.co/ZSY0YXDINf 10.33am GMT 10.32am GMT More than 300,000 people have applied to register to vote in 48 hours, according to government figures. As the Press Association reports, a total of 139,162 applications were submitted on Tuesday, followed by 177,105 on Wednesday. This is well above the typical number for weekday applications, which has been averaging around 37,000 for the past month. 10.31am GMT There is no sign of Boris Johnson this morning yet, but here, for the record, is the statement he released overnight ahead of the visits he is doing today to a school, a hospital and a police station. He said: Today should have been the day that Brexit was delivered and we finally left the EU. But, despite the great new deal I agreed with the EU, Jeremy Corbyn refused to allow that to happen – insisting upon more dither, more delay and more uncertainty for families and business. We cannot continue along this path. I didn’t want an election – like the country I wanted to get Brexit done, but it is the only way forward. 10.01am GMT Yesterday the Liberal Democrats sent out a note inviting journalists to a slogan launch this morning. That could be a first. Having covered general elections since the 1990s, I’ve seen poster launches, campaign launches and manifesto launches, but never something billed as an event to announce just a slogan. My colleague Peter Walker was there. And it turns out the slogan is: Stop Brexit, Build a Brighter Future. Lib Dems have a digital sign van outside parliament unveiling two election posters and their campaign slogan, which seems to be, “Build a Brighter Future.” pic.twitter.com/6KL7LmVzJG All campaign catchlines are necessarily platitudinous, and as with this, almost always fail the, ‘can you argue the opposite?’ test - ie, no party is going to say, “Actually, no, we want to create a worse future.”* *That’s not to say some policies won’t do just this. Anyway, the Lib Dem slogan van is supposedly due to spend *an hour* driving around Parliament Square. It’s a diesel. As an asthmatic who works a few hundred metres away I’m not overly keen on this. That said, the Lib Dem van did one circuit of the square and was last seen driving towards Lambeth bridge, so maybe there was a change of plan. Footage of the diesel Lib Dem as van idling before it sets off on its circuits of Parliament Sq. It’s not entirely ideal. As someone pointed out below they could have used @pedalmeapp for the job …. pic.twitter.com/beTWdtuiyv 9.47am GMT While we are on the subject of the Commons standards committee, MPs will later debate a motion saying they should suspend the Labour MP Keith Vaz, as recommended by the committee, for offering to buy drugs for sex workers. In an interview on the Today programme this morning Diane Abbott, the shadow home secretary, said Vaz should stand down instead of standing for election again. She said: I think he should consider his position. I think he himself should agree not to be a candidate. It has been a very sad issue, not just for him but for his family and his children. 9.41am GMT The Conservative MP Sir Henry Bellingham has been ordered to apologise to the Commons for the late declaration of a financial interest, the Press Association reports. The Commons standards committee found he did not declare his non-executive chairmanship of Clifton Africa Ltd, an African mining and development company, within the 28 days required. In a report the committee said such cases were normally dealt with through a “rectification” procedure, but, despite “extensive” correspondence with the parliamentary commissioner for standards, it said Bellingham had taken “far too long” to correct the record. As a result, the committee said it was recommending that he should issue a written apology to the house. 9.35am GMT The Conservatives argue that Labour’s claim to be offering change (see 9.02am) is bogus because the party is offering another referendum on Brexit. This is what James Cleverly, the Tory chairman, said in a statement last night, responding to the advance extracts from Jeremy Corbyn’s speech released in advance. Cleverly said: A vote for Labour is not a vote for change. It is precisely the opposite - a vote for more delay and uncertainty on Brexit, meaning the government can’t focus on people’s priorities, like the NHS, schools and crime. 9.24am GMT As Heather Stewart and Rowena Mason write in their overnight story, Jeremy Corbyn will use his speech this morning at the Labour campaign launch to assert that his party is on the side of the people. This is another standard piece of election rhetoric. You never hear candidates saying that they are on the side of vested interests or the elite (even though some of them are). You know what really scares the elite? What they’re actually afraid of is paying their taxes. So in this election they’ll fight harder and dirtier than ever before. They’ll throw everything at us because they know we’re not afraid to take them on. 9.02am GMT Essentially there are only three sorts of election campaign: ‘it’s time for a change’; ‘give us more time to finish the job’; or (when all else fails) ‘don’t let the other lot ruin it’. The easiest and most effective message is normally the first one (which is why sometimes incumbents even try and run on a ‘change’ platform) and today this is what Jeremy Corbyn will offer the electorate when he launches Labour’s election campaign at an event with the shadow cabinet. According to extracts released in advance, Corbyn will say: We stand for the many. Boris Johnson’s born-to-rule Conservatives protect the privileged few. They’ve slashed taxes for the richest and vital services and support for everyone else. But real change is coming. Related: General election: Corbyn to position Labour as true ‘party of the people’ Continue reading…