Great to be at the book launch yesterday evening of ‘Keeping the Red Flag Flying’, written by Richard Johnson, Mark Garnett, and Gavin Hyman.

I look forward to the day when sections of our press give as much attention to the concerns affecting state schools in deprived neighbourhoods which have borne the brunt of Tory austerity as they are giving to the issue of VAT on private school fees.

Keir Starmer tells #labourmanifesto launch: 'You can cut your bills for good with a new energy company, funded by a tax on the oil and gas giants, owned by the taxpayer, making money for the taxpayer, powering your home with clean British energy'

Keir Starmer: ‘It is too hard for working people to get on, opportunity is not spread evenly enough and too many communities are not just locked out of the wealth we create, they’re disregarded as sources of dynamism in the first place’ #labourmanifesto

Keir Starmer responds to a heckler “We gave up on being a party of protest 5 years ago, we want to be a party of power” #labourmanifesto

Music teacher Nathaniel Dye who has been diagnosed with cancer takes to the stage for the #Labourmanifesto launch saying 'I spent 100 days waiting for cancer treatment when the govt's target is 62...my cancer might not have spread'

We changed the Labour Party. With this manifesto, we can change Britain. 🇬🇧🌹

This is the change worth having, and the change worth voting for.

Rishi Sunak is continuing to face a backlash for blaming strikes as the reason behind high NHS waiting lists. The BMA crucially points out that waiting lists were already at a record high before any strikes started.

Keir Starmer is applauded during leaders debate when he says: 'Every parent has aspiration for their children whether they go to private school or not' #SkyDebate

BREAKING: Snap YouGov poll has Keir Starmer as the clear winner in Sky's #BattleforNumber10 debate:

Who performed best?

Starmer: 64%
Sunak 36%

#SkyDebate

How are Tories reacting to Sunak's disastrous appearance on Sky's leaders debate today? The Independent reports that one former adviser has messaged David Maddox with the words: “The Beth Rigby interview is a one-woman firing squad for the PM.” #SkyDebate

Rishi Sunak has just been taken apart by Beth Rigby: ‘Isn’t the truth that your problem is broken promises...it's Brexit, migration, NHS…levelling up, it’s a catalogue of broken promises…you must see why so many think it’s time for you and the Conservatives to get your P.45”

Rishi Sunak is being taken apart here by Beth Rigby. Biggest applause yet as she asks Rishi Sunak 'why should anyone believe anything you say on immigration’. #SkyDebate

Keir Starmer is applauded during leaders debate when he says: 'Every parent has aspiration for their children whether they go to private school or not' #SkyDebate

Keir Starmer: ‘If you leave your country in a worse state than when you came into government you should be booted out' #SkyDebate

Audience applauds Keir Starmer when he says: 'Unfunded commitments, unfunded promises that’s what got us into this problem in the first place and working people are paying the price with higher bills.. and I’m not prepared to have a Labour govt ever make that mistake again'

Keir Starmer says: ‘We will not raise tax on working people that means no tax rises for income tax, for national insurance for VAT…there’s nothing in our manifesto that requires us to raise tax’ #skydebate

Keir Starmer tells Sky's Beth Rigby: 'The change that I wanted to bring about and I have brought about is to change the Labour Party to put it back in the service of working people and what has guided me through that is the country must come first and party second' #SkyDebate