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General elections are about huge choices. The future of our precious National Health Service and schools are on the ballot paper tomorrow week.

Quite simply, Labour would invest in these public services and the Conservatives would run them down — so Jeremy Corbyn is right today to highlight the opposing approaches .

He was relaxed and interesting last night on BBC’s One Show, having apologised earlier for forgetting the cost of Labour’s ambitious plan to extend free childcare.

May’s increasingly personalised attacks reek of Tory desperation and her appeal to voters to imagine Corbyn naked was bizarre. Imagine the fury had he said the same about her.

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Labour’s spending deserves scrutiny but coverage of this contest is biased when an uncosted Tory manifesto is gifted a free pass.

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

Housing

Benefits

Legalising cannabis

Not often do we agree with George Osborne but him saying May’s agenda is “the most dangerous in recent history” is on the money.