General election: Labour sets out its plans for lifelong learning - live news
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Jeremy Corbyn and Angela Rayner speak in Blackpool as Johnson prepares to chair Cobra meeting on floodsFarage urged to stand aside in Tory target seatsLabour pledges six years of free adult studyLib Dem candidate quits over racist tweetsSign up to the election briefing 12.29pm GMT Corbyn says there was a time when being a further education lecturer was a good job. Now he meets many of them on zero-hours contracts, with multiple jobs. They are stressed, he says. He says they come into teaching because they love the job, but many leave because of the stress. There is something going badly wrong, he says. 12.27pm GMT Q: Does Labour still support HS2, even though it would now reportedly cost £88bn? (See 9.53am.)Corbyn says he does not know how accurate this report. Labour´s priority would be investment in rail and bus infrastructure north of Birmingham. Continue reading...