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Jeremy Corbyn will today set out a stark vision of how five more years of Conservative rule would leave our crumbling public services in ruins.

Millions more people would be stranded on NHS waiting lists or abandoned without social care if the Tories win the election, the Labour leader will warn.

He will add that 110,000 more primary school pupils would be squeezed into super-sized classes.

Mr Corbyn will say: “The futures of our NHS and schools are at stake in this election.”

He will add that most families face being clobbered for £450 for every primary school-aged child as Theresa May axes their free school lunches after polling day.

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Mr Corbyn will say: “Over the last seven years the Tories have starved public services... running them down and pushing them into disrepair.

“Patients are suffering ever longer waits and overcrowded wards; those who need care have been left without it. Children are crammed into overcrowded and crumbling classrooms. It has to change.”

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Labour has pledged to hike taxes on big corporations and people earning more than £80,000 a year to raise extra funds for public services.

But the Prime Minister has set out no plans to raise extra cash for schools or the NHS.

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Figures published by Labour last night suggest that as a result the number on health service waiting lists in England will soar from 3.2 million to five million by 2022.

The amount of older and vulnerable people with unmet social care needs would rise from 1.2 million to almost 1.5 million, Labour added.And children in primary school classes of more than 30 pupils would increase from 540,000 to 650,000.

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Speaking in London this morning, Mr Corbyn will say: “We will cut class sizes, take a million people off the NHS waiting list and ensure people get the care they deserve.

“By contrast, another five years of the Tories would be disastrous for our public services. On June 8 there’s only one party that will improve our public services for the many not the few – that’s the Labour Party .”

He stumbled briefly yesterday on Woman’s Hour on Radio 4 when he could not recall the cost of his plans for universal free childcare.

Gloating Tories described it as a “car crash” interview. But Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell contrasted Labour’s costed manifesto with the Conservatives’ refusal to set out spending plans. He said: “In the Tory manifesto the only numbers are the page numbers.”

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At a campaign event in Watford after the interview, Mr Corbyn said: “I didn’t have the exact figure in front of me so I was unable to answer that question, for which obviously I apologise. But I don’t apologise for what’s in the manifesto.”

He said the policy would cost £4.8billion by the end of the next Parliament, adding: “It means one million children will get childcare, free childcare, 30 hours per week, between the years of two and four.”

A relaxed Mr Corbyn was also on good form on The One Show last night. He joked about his love of growing beans on his allotment, and gave the presenters a jar of his homemade jam.

He showed photos of himself as a boy growing up in Shropshire, and said: “Did I ever set out to become Prime Minister? No. I set out to... bring about greater justice in our society. I’m honoured to lead the party and I’m giving it everything I can to win this election.”