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Full text of the LibDem manifesto released today - gallery.mailchimp.com/fe34b42da454f2…

Summary of the manifesto pledges - mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
Full text of the Green party manifesto (out yesterday) - greenparty.org.uk/assets/files/E…

summary of the manifesto pledges - mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
Thread from the independent Institute of Fiscal Studies, analysing the main LibDem tax and spending policies -
More detailed analysis of LibDem child care policy from @TheIFS
@TheIFS Fact check of some key LibDem policies - the "Remain Bonus" is a "fair assessment of the best available forecasts", but there are some uncertainties -
@TheIFS Also fact checks LibDem manifesto claims on energy, the environment, housing and crime:

nb some of the increase in homelessness was during the coalition
Back to the Green party - this is a good overview and analysis of some key points in the manifesto -
LibDem manifesto commitment on legal aid
Full text of Labour manifesto here: labour.org.uk/manifesto/

Summary and analysis of main Labour policies here: bbc.co.uk/news/election-…
Thread summarising Labour manifesto policies on justice and human rights issues:
Latest set of policy pledges is from the Brexit party - calls itself a 'contract' not a manifesto:
Full text here: thebrexitparty.org/contract-with-…
One fact check of Brexit party pledges - they will "Require Universities to incorporate an obligation to protect legal free speech."

This is legal nonsense - universities have had a legal obligation to protect free speech since 1986 - legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/61/…
Brexit party pledges say "FREED FROM EU RULES ON STATE AID, WE CAN INVEST IN STRATEGIC INDUSTRIES TO CREATE THOUSANDS OF JOBS" - fails to mention that the blessed WTO has a subsidies code that prohibits or allows retaliation against specific State subsidies which UK might give
Indeed. Plus this would be the worst heist film ever. I'm dubbing it "Saloon Bar Dogs"
The year is 2046. Lord Emperor Farage appears on screen and, from his solid gold palace, tells us we must renew the fight against the elite establishment. BBC bosses spontaneously salivate
The Brexit party pledges purport to love the NHS and oppose its privatisation - but this is what Farage really thinks
(Corrected) here's a summary of the Plaid Cymru manifesto - I'll add a link to the full text of the manifesto to this thread when it's published: bbc.co.uk/news/election-…
Full text of the Plaid Cymru election manifesto now published: partyof.wales/maniffesto_2019
A fact check of another point in the Brexit party pledges - some basic innumeracy (mixing up the number of businesses *paying £10k in corporation tax* with the number *making £10k profits*) -
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1/ Unlikely that the EU would ever agree that the EAW would *fully* apply to a non-EU country, since it would require some Member States to change their constitutions to allow their citizens to be extradited outside the EU.
2/ However, the EU might agree to a treaty on fast track extradition with a non-EU country, which contains most (though not all) of the features of the EAW. The precedent for that is the EU/Norway/Iceland extradition treaty, which has just entered into force.
3/ The political declaration already commits to negotiate a future treaty on fast track extradition with the UK along these lines. While the EU position is no negotiations on the future relationship before Brexit Day, the declaration might conceivably be fleshed out.
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Surprise! Johnson is lying already and repeatedly about the impact of the proposal to raise the threshold for National Insurance contributions
He's at it again @OborneTweets

I mean, "£500 benefit in the first year" would mean that National Insurance contributions are payable at a rate of well over 50% 🙄
Johnson's falsehood on the effect of increasing the National Insurance contribution threshold in the first year rightly skewered here by @afneil
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Waiting for Johnson to start lying like... #ITVDebate
Johnson claims about trade between GB and Northern Ireland pretty dodgy #ITVDebate
Johnson's "blocking Brexit" claim is nonsense #ITVDebate
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