All the latest from the campaign as Brexit party and Plaid Cymru launch their manifestos, Labour sells its own plan and Tories are to announce 3% extra stamp duty for foreign property buyers
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- Jeremy Corbyn urges public to vote for ‘manifesto of hope’
- Boris Johnson set to snub election leaders’ debate on climate crisis
- Peterborough voters: ‘We need to give people hope again’
Farage then outlines the party’s tree-planting proposals, as reported by my colleague Kate Proctor yesterday.
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Farage welcomes the apparent movement within Tory party policy towards supporting an Australian-style points based system but criticises a failure to commit to “reducing numbers”.
He claims that the Conservatives have no intention of reducing the number of migrants coming to the UK because many of the party’s “big business backers want as much cheap labour as they can possibly get.”