Jeremy Corbyn clarifies position and rules out second referendum on Brexit

The Labour leader claims Government figures show more than 40,000 primary school children in England were taught in classes of 36 or more a year ago, up from 38,500 in 2015.

However, Baroness Smith was in a buoyant mood saying the snap election was not about Brexit – and noting the polls had been very wrong before.

“There’s not game playing going on except in so much as she said there’s not going to be an election and now there is one”.

It’s vital, the paper says, that the PM does her best to “create a sense of urgency among the voters”; “They have to understand the dangers of not coming out to support her, ‘ the paper adds”.

“Or do we as a country and we as a party put a message out there that it doesn’t have to be like this, it can be better, it can be fairer and it can be a more just society?”

“I had no idea she was going to call it. The polls didn’t think Donald Trump would become the president of the United States, but he did”.

The Greens have also highlighted afresh the gaps within the British voting system – just 24% of the United Kingdom voted the Conservatives in at the last general election, the other 76% of the country’s vote being split between Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the Green party and UKIP.

Corbyn’s latest policy announcement – which launched in a speech in Birmingham yesterday and which would cost £538mn by the time of the next election – will be funded by reversing the inheritance tax cut announced by George Osborne in 2015.

Barbara Keeley, shadow minister for social care and mental health, agreed that continuing to push the new policies would help bolster the party’s polling position.

“Labour campaigned against Brexit but accepted it. Jeremy will outline the need for a soft Brexit”.

Both the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats have rejected calls from the Scottish National Party and the Green Party to form a coalition or undertake an electoral pact to thwart what is expected to be a strong Conservative government.

Speaking on Wednesday’s Inside Politics podcast, Prof Tim Bale said another poor election result for Labour would likely mean the party, which has been in opposition for seven years, will spend at least another 10 years in the political wilderness. “If the Tories want to win, it’s time to put forward a ‘radical manifesto”, and make it clear how unsafe a Labour win would be, the Telegraph concludes. “Because when we win, it’s the people, not the powerful, who win”.

“The issue and the threat at this election is that, due to Labour’s complete unelectability, we face an unfettered, out-of-control Tory Government”.

“Jeremy is a genuine politician you can trust and a safe pair of hands”. “It will once again give people the opportunity to reject the [Conservative government’s] narrow, divisive agenda, as well as reinforcing the democratic mandate which already exists for giving the people of Scotland a choice on their future”.