Rolling coverage of the day’s developments in the 2019 general election campaign
- Don’t sign pledges on NHS or climate, Tory HQ tells candidates
- Rees-Mogg’s Grenfell remarks ‘caused huge distress’, admits Cleverly
How do we know for certain that the election campaign is underway? Because I’m on a battle bus – the Lib Dem bus, which has a huge picture of the party leader on the side and the slogan, “Jo Swinson’s Lib Dems”. It’s all quite presidential.
As an aside, this is a Chinese-made electric bus, one of two the party has in service. The electric one, for obvious reasons, does the briefer trips.
Q: Do you think renegotiating a Brexit deal with the EU will be undermined by five of your shadow cabinet saying they will vote remain?
Corbyn says his policy has always been to bring people together. He says people who voted leave and people who voted remain are likely to face the same problems, for example on housing. They have the same interests.