Jeremy Corbyn has defended his decision to stay neutral in the event of a second referendum, describing the position as a “sign of strength and maturity” as he urged: “Our country has to come together.”

After a stint outside an Amazon warehouse attacking tax cheats, the Labour leader was in Loughborough to launch the party’s youth manifesto, where he pledged to give 16-year-olds the vote and emphasised the party’s climate credentials.

Elsewhere, Chuka Umunna accused Tory minister Rishi Sunak of letting “the cat out of the bag” after he told The Telegraph that no-deal planning would resume after the general election under a Conservative government.

The leaders of the four main parties were each grilled by a Question Time audience on Friday night, with Boris Johnson refusing to apologise for homophobic and Islamophobic comments, and Nicola Sturgeon undermining Labour’s stance on Scottish independence.