By Andrew Sparrow (now); Mattha Busby and Alison Rourke (earlier)
Jeremy Corbyn and Angela Rayner speak in Blackpool as Johnson prepares to chair Cobra meeting on floods
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1.21pm GMT
Here are the main points from the Jeremy Corbyn Q&A.
What we have before us is an alliance between Donald Trump and Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson. We know where that alliance is designed to take us – into a sweetheart trade deal with the United States that will threaten all of our regulations, all of our conditions, and threaten our public services …
Farage and Johnson only offer division, division, division, and a deal with Donald Trump. You’ll then be saying whatever happened to our wonderful national health service? Whatever happened to all the regulations that we had that protected our rights at work, our right to clean environment and our right to safe food. All of that is at risk from the kind of trade deal that they want to do with the USA. We will have none of it.
We have a system in place in our office to protect us against these cyber attacks, but it was a very serious attack against us. So far as we’re aware none of our information was downloaded and the attack was actually repulsed because we have an effective in-house developed system by people within our party.
But if this is a sign of things to come in this election, I feel very nervous about it all because a cyber attack against a political party in an election is suspicious, something one is very worried about.
Our priority is investment in rail and bus infrastructure north of Birmingham, into the north east, north west and Yorkshire … As far as we’re concerned, that is the absolute priority. Because if we don’t improve transport links from Birmingham northwards … and develop the Crossrail for the north, which would be a high-speed, efficient line linking Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle and Hull, then I think we will see a problem in future economic development across the regions.
12.44pm GMT
I‘ve been watching Angela Rayner and Jeremy Corbyn speak in a campaign event at Blackpool football club (not that you’d know it, as the blinds are pulled down on the picture windows behind us overlooking the pitch).
Corbyn made the arguments for Labour’s lifelong learning policies, including six years of free adult education, which he was here to launch.
Source: General election: Corbyn claims Trump/Farage/Johnson pact poses threat to rights in UK – live news