General election: Labour vows to take on 'bad bosses and tax dodgers' – live news

Jeremy Corbyn has been speaking outside an Amazon depot in Sheffield, launching the party’s “fair tax programme”.

Speaking to reporters, he insisted adopting a neutral stance in a second Brexit referendum was a sign of “strength” and “maturity”.

I think being an honest broker and listening to everyone is actually a sign of strength and a sign of maturity.

Here’s some more on that Conservative dementia announcement.

The party has pledged more than £1.6bn for research to find a cure for dementia over the next decade, which it says represents the largest boost to dementia research ever in the UK, doubling current funding levels.

They have also announced plans to launch an “innovative medicines fund” by extending the successful “cancer drugs fund” – which was due to end next year – to other diseases. It will have a £500m budget in the first year, compared with the £340m value of the cancer drugs fund.

There are currently 850,000 people suffering from dementia in the UK and that number is set to rise to more than a million by the middle of the next decade and to double in the next 30 years.

Johnson said dementia was “one of the great medical challenges of our time”. “This is our plan to tackle it: a record injection of cash that unleashes the brilliant British science community that brought the world penicillin, IVF and Proton Beam Therapy for cancer.”

Jeremy Corbyn and the shadow employment rights secretary, Laura Pidcock, are due to launch their “fair tax programme” outside an Amazon warehouse in Yorkshire today.

The party has pledged to tackle tax dodging by introducing unitary taxation of multinationals to stop tax avoiding profit shifting. The approach is outlined in this report by Public Services International. Labour says the measure will bring in £6.3bn in 2023-24.

Their package of measures (which you can read here) includes:

• Clamping down on the enablers of tax dodging.
• Increasing HMRC’s targeted audits.
• Establishing an inquiry into the finance sector.
• Introducing a 20% Offshore Company Property Levy, on top of existing stamp duties and surcharges.
• Scrapping non-dom status.
• Requiring greater scrutiny of MPs’ tax affairs.

In comments issued ahead of the visit, Corbyn said:

Huge multinational companies often act as if the rules we all live by don’t apply to them. They use loopholes to claim they don’t owe tax and cynically push their workers to the limit. I don’t want to live in a country of a few billionaires and millions of stressed people, worried about making ends meet every month.

Lib Dem parliamentary candidate, and former Labour MP, Chuka Umunna has spoken to the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning, repeating criticism of Jeremy Corbyn’s neutral Brexit stance.

I think it is extraordinary, absolutely extraordinary, that on the biggest issue since the second world war, the leader of the opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, is saying he would seek to behave like some referee in a football match …

It’s absolutely clear – you can’t save the NHS and address the issues in it at the same time as not seeking to stop Brexit, not least because 10% of our doctors come from the EU, and 7% of our nurses come from the EU.

The shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott, has given an interview to the Guardian’s political editor, Heather Stewart, in which she has said that a Labour government would make values, not numbers, the driving force behind immigration policy.

What I would say is different about Jeremy [Corbyn] – and myself as home secretary – is we want to talk about values. Because it flows from your values, actually, if you hold them genuinely, what sort of immigration system that you have.

It’s worth a read:

Here’s a bit more information about what we have to look forward to today.

• The Conservatives are announcing a £1.6bn fund to find a cure for dementia. Boris Johnson said the investment would double current funding levels and that it would set Britain’s finest scientists to work on a “dementia moonshot”.

• Labour is launching its youth manifesto. The document called The Future is Ours will commit the party to giving 16-year-olds the right to vote, and to investing an additional £250m to build up to 500 new youth centres.

• Jeremy Corbyn is visiting an Amazon depot in Yorkshire, where he will vow to tackle the “tax and wage cheat culture” of multinational companies who “rip off” workers.

• The Liberal Democrat leader, Jo Swinson, will be in west London focusing on creative and arts subjects in schools, which she said should have “the same footing as the rest of the curriculum”.

• The Brexit party leader, Nigel Farage, will be on a walkabout in Hartlepool, where the party’s chairman, Richard Tice, is a candidate.

I’ll bring you more information as I get it.

The shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, has responded to yesterday’s vote on GP home visits at the BMA conference yesterday.

The crisis in the family doctor service is just one more area where the Conservative government has let down patients and the NHS.

In 2015 they promised more GPs, which like their pledges on everything else, never happened. And now there is a serious threat that elderly and vulnerable patients who rely on home visits will have that vital support removed.

You can’t trust Boris Johnson with the NHS. Labour’s rescue plan will recruit and train the GPs needed so home visits can continue.

Here’s a round up of today’s front pages, with Corbyn’s “neutral” Brexit stance dominating many.

More on the health secretary’s comments on this morning’s Today programme.

Delegates representing GPs across England at a British Medical Association conference on Friday voted to try to remove the duty in their standard contracts to carry out home visits, complaining that they were wasting time driving around the country. However, speaking on Saturday morning, Matt Hancock said the idea was a “complete non-starter” and that he was firmly opposed to the plan.

The GPs had a vote on what their opening negotiating position should be for the next GP contract. The idea that people shouldn’t be able, when they need it, to have a home visit from a GP is a complete non-starter and it won’t succeed in their negotiations.

Of course, people need to be able to see their GP and we’re putting huge amounts of extra resources into training, funding and hiring more GPs, and the other practice staff which are also so important. But you do need, sometimes, for the GP to be able to go and see somebody.

You can read the full story here:

Good morning and welcome to politics live, the morning after the special BBC Question Time programme in which Jeremy Corbyn announced he would remain neutral in a second Brexit referendum.

The Labour leader was quizzed by a live studio audience in Sheffield, followed by the SNP’s leader Nicola Sturgeon, the Lib Dem Jo Swinson and, finally, the prime minister, Boris Johnson.

The audience pulled no punches, attacking Swinson over her record in the coalition and her party’s revoke article 50 policy; challenging Boris Johnson over his trustworthiness and previous racist statements; confronting Corbyn over antisemitism in his party and his renationalisation plans; and pushing Sturgeon to confirm that she could support a Corbyn government in exchange for a Scottish independence referendum.

You can read full write-up from the Guardian’s political editor Heather Stewart here. Some colour from the spin room in Sheffield – where the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, and shadow transport secretary, Andy McDonald, squared up to each other over racism in their parties – from me here. And you can watch some video highlights here:

The health secretary, Matt Hancock, has been on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme ruling out scrapping home visits by GPs, despite complaints from doctors that they are too over-stretched to deliver the service. I’ll bring you more on that shortly.

I’m Frances Perraudin and I’ll be guiding you through all of today’s political developments.