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Since Theresa May called the early election, Britain's political parties have been desperately scrambling together their manifestos.

It's a lot less time than usual - as party bigwigs usually have months or more to come up with the perfect programme of pledges to lure people to put their cross in the right box.

Now all the main parties have launched their documents with a dramatic variety of policies on the NHS, care, tax, wages and the economy.

Here's a short summary of what the major parties are offering.

NOTE: These are selected highlights. To see FULL manifestos at-a-glance in the 2017 general election please follow the updated links below.

Labour

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Labour's 2017 election manifesto was unveiled at a launch in Bradford - a week after the entire draft leaked to the Mirror.

And it made some absolutely massive pledges.

Jeremy Corbyn vowed free childcare for ALL two- to four-year-olds, a 'fat cat tax' on banks and football clubs that pay huge wages, a nationalised water industry and a new 45p tax threshold of £80,000 a year.

That was on top of measures already announced, from a plan to boost workers' rights to renationalising rail and mail.

"This is a manifesto for all generations providing hope and opportunity," Jeremy Corbyn declared. "Opinion's changing and it's moving towards Labour!"

Some of the policies in the Labour manifesto

What do the general election manifestos say about... Immigration

Housing

Benefits

Legalising cannabis

Conservatives

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Theresa May unveiled the manifesto she hoped would win her the election in Halifax, West Yorkshire.

But unlike Jeremy Corbyn's 'For the many not the few', the Tory leader's 'Forward Together' was hardly all sweetness and light.

It did away with the Tories' failed pledge of a care cap, instead promising to raise the threshold at which people pay.

The cap was reinstated in an astonishing U-turn just four days later.

Pensioners will be a less well-off as winter fuel payments are hugely restricted and the triple lock is ditched.

There's the threat of new welfare cuts as the promise not to make any is downgraded to a pledge not to make them "radical".

And seven-year-olds will lose their guaranteed free hot lunches as "lunch snatcher" Mrs May replaces them with breakfasts at a fraction of the cost.

Mrs May claimed "big, difficult decisions" were needed to keep the country on track.

"What we say in it we will do," she declared. "And the scale of our ambition is clear".

What do the general election manifestos say about... Immigration

Housing

Benefits

Legalising cannabis

Some of the policies in the Conservative manifesto

A cap on energy prices similar to the one proposed by Ed Miliband ahead of the 2015 election

A promise to keep spending 0.7% of GDP on foreign aid

A pledge to hire 10,000 more mental health nurses by 2020 (after numbers dipped under Tory rule)

A pledge to spend at least 2% of GDP on defence and raise defence spending by at least 0.5% above inflation every year of the next Parliament

Liberal Democrats

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The Lib Dems unveiled their 2017 manifesto in east London - declaring what they'd do in the unlikely event they run the country.

The central pledge is giving voters another say on Brexit with a second referendum on the final deal.

Standing astride an EU flag in a nightclub, leader Tim Farron declared: "The Britain I love is not lost yet."

But he's also tried to attract younger voters by pledging votes for 16-year-olds, a discounted bus pass, scrapping housing benefit cuts and legalising cannabis.

The party's other flagship policy is putting a 1p rise on income tax to raise £6bn a year for the NHS.

Some of the policies in the Liberal Democrat manifesto

A second referendum on the terms of the Brexit deal

£7billion to halt Tory cuts to schools

A £1billion fund dedicated to mental health services

An extra penny on income tax to pay for the NHS

Completely legalised cannabis with a fully-operational market

An extra month of parental leave for dads

Ukip

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Some of the policies in the full Ukip manifesto

A ban on full face coverings

An explicit ban on the practice of Sharia Law

Abolition of postal voting for most electors

Making a difference in race an aggravating factor in grooming offences

A moratorium on new Islamic faith schools

Mandatory reporting of Female Genital Mutilation

Mandatory annual medical checks for girls "at risk" of Female Genital Mutilation

'Presumption of prosecution' of any parent whose daughter has suffered FGM, which is already the law

A £10 billion a year cut in the foreign aid budget

A 'one in one out' immigration system - i.e. cutting net migration to ZERO over five years

Green Party

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The Green Party launched their manifesto a little after the main parties, and wasn't all about recycling and climate change.

Their election document covered the whole range of policy areas - and some of the proposals were pretty radical.

How does free money sound to you?

Or perhaps an extra day off every week?

On top of that, they want to give you a pay rise for the time you do work.

What else do we know is in the Green Party manifesto?

A 'ratification referendum' on the terms of the Brexit deal - with an option to remain in the EU

Scrapping tuition fees and bringing back maintenance grants

Continuing the Erasmus student exchange programme after Brexit

Pledging to maintain equivalent funding for Universities losing cash from the EU

Lowering the voting age to 16

SNP

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What do we think will be in it?