“Yes, what was that?” said Boris Johnson, affecting bafflement when asked about the Conservative party’s Twitter feed masquerading as a fact-checking service during the debate on Tuesday between the party leaders.

The prime minister appeared to be suggesting his own party’s official communications channels had nothing to do with him; he argued it was not for him to “invigilate absolutely everything” on the internet.

Read my colleague Rowena Mason’s report from the Tory campaign trail:

A complaint from the Labour Party over Sky News’ decision to brand this contest the “Brexit Election” has been rejected by the media regulator, Ofcom.

Labour are keen to fight the election on other policies such as the NHS, arguing that the presence of on-screen Brexit election branding showed bias. Ofcom rejected this claim in a letter sent on Tuesday afternoon, telling the party:

We considered that Brexit is an important background contextual factor which has been instrumental in shaping the debate within Parliament in the weeks and months leading up to the general election.

In addition, given that the current extension to the article 50 process runs out on 31 January 2020, the issue of what happens next in terms of the UK’s relationship with the EU will be determined by the election result and the make-up of the next parliament. Against this backdrop, we consider it a reasonable editorial judgment for Sky News to use the strapline ‘The Brexit Election’ to label its election programming.

Some hasty revisions have been made to Boris Johnson’s equally hasty announcement of a national insurance (NI) contributions cut (see 2.11pm).

At first, the prime minister said the Tories were going to increase the threshold at which most workers begin paying NI to £12,000.

Later, speaking to ITV News, he said the initial increase would actually only be to £9,500, while a subsequent rise to a new figure of £12,500 was described as an “ambition”. That first change to NI, he wrongly claimed, would represent a “£500 cut for every working person”.

The latest version of the policy released by Tory HQ this evening is a lifting of the NI threshold from £8,632 to £9,500 in 2020/21, which the party now says will actually only be worth £100 per worker – or less than £2 per week – and an “ultimate ambition” to increase it to £12,500 at some point in the future.

Earlier, the prime minister claimed a new pledge to increase the national insurance threshold to £12,000 was part of a plan to primarily help “working people” (see: 2.11pm).

But does it stack up? Here’s our factcheck, put together by my colleague Richard Partington:

The Resolution Foundation said the threshold hike was “relatively progressive as far as tax cuts go”, but that to reduce poverty it would be better and more cost effective to reverse the £12bn in benefits cuts imposed under austerity policies since 2015.

Listen in to this week’s Politics Weekly, as my colleague Heather Stewart is joined by Ayesha Hazarika, Paul Harrison and Will Jennings to pick apart the ITV debate. Plus, Rowena Mason calls in from the Tory battlebus and Peter Walker reports from the Green party’s manifesto launch:

She wraps up: “The future of our country is in our hands ... so if you want to stop Boris Johnson and stop Brexit then vote Liberal Democrat. If you want a £50bn bonus to improve your life, vote Liberal Democrat ... If you want to work with our friends to tackle the climate crisis, vote Liberal Democrat. If you want to build a brighter future, vote Liberal Democrat.”

The biggest investment in the manifesto is for parents, says Swinson, something she is very proud of. They will help parents going back to work by providing 35 free hours of childcare a week, for 48 weeks a year.

“We are the only party that can win a significant number of seats from the Conservatives and deprive them a majority,” says the Lib Dem leader.

She says her party has committed £11bn over the next five years for improvement of mental health services – investing more money in talking therapies and increasing the number of mental health nurses.

Swinson says hers is the only party with a credible plan to tackle the climate emergency. “We will not leave our party with a boiling planet,” she says.

Stopping Brexit will give them the money to reverse schools cuts, she says. They will “put our money where our heart is”, she adds.

Boris Johnson is deluded if he thinks he can negotiate a new trade deal with Europe by the end of 2020, she says.

“Boris Johnson only cares about Boris Johnson and he’ll say whatever he needs to to stay in Number 10. This is a man who lied to the Queen,” says Swinson.

On to Jeremy Corbyn, she says the Labour leader won’t be upfront about what he thinks on Brexit.

“I’d like you to welcome my friend and our candidate to be the next prime minister,” says Sanders. “The voice of a new liberal generation.”

Swinson says Corbyn and Johnson only know how to rehash ideas from the past – “whether it’s the 1970s or the 1870s”.

She says the UK has wasted the last three-and-a-half years talking about Brexit. “There is no form of Brexit that would be good for our country,” she says, whether it is done by Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn.

We’ve now got Matt Sanders, the party’s candidate in Hampstead and Kilburn. “People are responding to Jo’s simple call – stop Brexit,” he says. “Friends, Brexit must be stopped.”

Jeremy Corbyn likes remain votes but he doesn’t want us to stay in the EU, says Sanders. He says that millions of people looked at Corbyn and Johnson last night and they didn’t want to choose either.

Daisy Cooper, the party’s candidate in St Albans – not Camden – is opening the event. She says that while St Albans voted to stay in the EU, the constituency has a “hard Brexit” MP in Conservative Anne Main. “You guys are going to have to work really, really hard over the next few weeks so give yourselves a round of applause and have a great night,” she says.

We’re just waiting for the Liberal Democrat manifesto launch to begin in Camden. You can watch a live feed at the top of this blog.

Guardian political correspondent Peter Walker is there.

Hundreds of students and under-18s have been registered to vote without their knowledge after a council IT blunder, according to the Sun.

Around 635 students were wrongly registered by Plymouth city council, and polling cards were mistakenly sent to up to 247 under-18s. The council, which was criticised over similar errors in May, said “tagging issues” on its internal systems had caused students and young people to automatically be added to its voting roster. Since 2014 it has been illegal to register anyone but yourself to vote.

Johnny Mercer, the candidate for Plymouth Moor View, wrote on Twitter:

The chief executive of the Resolution Foundation thinktank, Torsten Bell, has been looking at the Liberal Democrat election manifesto plans.

More from the Guardian’s deputy political editor, Rowena Mason.

Labour’s John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, has commented on the Conservatives’ national insurance plans.

Even after 10 years of cruel cuts and despite creaking public services, the Tories still think the answer to the challenges of our time is a tax cut of £1.64 a week, with those on universal credit getting about 60p.

Meanwhile independent experts have said this will cost up to £11bn so everyone who relies on public services and social security will be wondering whether they will be paying the price.

The Tories are stuck in the 1980s while a Labour government will tackle head-on the climate and human emergencies of our time.

Here’s our full story on the Tory national insurance announcement.

Boris Johnson has said he wants to raise the national insurance threshold to £12,000, letting slip a major Tory tax cut from the manifesto as he was speaking to workers in Teesside.

The prime minister said he wanted to cut tax for working people as he was pressed by an employee at a fabrication yard about whether he would help “people like us”, not just the rich.

The policy would ultimately be a tax cut of more than £400 for everyone earning more than the current threshold of £8,632. However, it quickly emerged that the Tories would only pledge to raise the threshold to £9,500 next year then lift it gradually over many years until it reached the target £12,000 threshold.

Two million people have applied to register to vote since the general election was called, the Press Association reports.

A total of 2,048,039 applications were submitted between 29 October – the day the government called for an election on 12 December – and 19 November, according to government figures.

More than a third of applications (35%) came from people under the age of 25. A further 30% were from 25 to 34-year-olds.

That was quick. The Liberal Democrats have now suspended Waheed Rafiq. See my previous post.

Buzzfeed’s Alex Wickham has this story about the Liberal Democrat candidate in Birmingham Hodge Hill, Waheed Rafiq, who tweeted antisemitic comments, expressed apparent support for the Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, backed Trump for president and stood as a Ukip candidate in the same seat in 2010. You can read the whole (pretty astonishing) story here.

More on that – possibly accidental – announcement of a huge proposed Conservative manifesto tax cut.

Labour’s shadow attorney general, Shami Chakrabarti, has responded to Tory party proposals for victims to get the right to attend parole hearings.

After almost a decade of cuts to the criminal justice system, the Conservatives have all but decriminalised rape. This announcement cannot cover over the fact we know that secret CPS targets incentivised difficult cases being dropped.

Labour will carry out a fundamental review of rape survivors’ treatment and provide the law, policy and resources required to reverse the lowest prosecution rates on record. Women in particular have learned they cannot trust Boris Johnson, not least with their most fundamental rights.

Chakrabarti is referring to this story from a week ago which reveals that tens of thousands of rape cases could have been dropped because of secret targets implemented by the CPS.

My colleague Rowena Mason says the Tory aides accompanying Boris Johnson are now in a bit of a panic.

I’ve got a meeting this afternoon, so my colleague Frances Perraudin is now taking over.

And this is what the Institute for Fiscal Studies said about Boris Johnson’s plan to raise the national insurance threshold in a briefing paper (pdf) when he floated the idea during the Tory leadership contest.

Currently, only earnings above £8,632 per year 3 are subject to NICs (employee, employer, and self-employed). Mr. Johnson has not stated how much he would like to raise this threshold by, nor whether he would raise just the employee and self-employed thresholds or the employer one too. If just the employee and self-employed thresholds are changed, raising the threshold by £1,000 takes 600,000 workers out of NICs altogether and costs the government about £3bn per year. If the employer one is changed as well, the cost goes up to £4.5bn per year. Raising the threshold to £12,500 ... would cost £11bn per year if just the employee and self-employed thresholds are raised, or £17bn if employer ones are as well, and would take 2.4 million workers out of NICs.

Any of these policies would have a larger proportional impact on the after-tax earnings of low-earning workers than high-earning ones (though the very lowest earning workers – who currently do not pay NICs – would be unaffected). However, when we look at the impact of the policy on household incomes, the picture is rather different. Figure 4 shows the distributional impact of raising all NICs thresholds, including that for employer NICs, to £12,500. 16 million households gain from the policy, but as the figure makes clear, the largest proportional gains go to those in the middle to upper part of the income distribution. This happens for two key reasons. First, those in households towards the bottom of the income distribution are much less likely to be in work, and of course only workers benefit from this policy. Second, households nearer the bottom get a larger share of their income from benefits, rather than earnings, which means that the policy has a smaller impact on their incomes.

And here is a chart from the IFS report showing the distributional impact on households.

Obviously, we don’t yet have the full details of what the Conservatives are proposing, but just what we’ve heard from Johnson. (See 2.11pm.)

Some journalists think Boris Johnson may not have been planning to announce a huge proposed Conservative manifesto tax cut in a Q&A with workers at an engineering company in Stockton-on-Tees. This is from the FT’s George Parker.

And this is from the Times’ Francis Elliott.

Increasing aviation duties for frequent flyers, raising up to £5bn a year, is among policies announced by the Liberal Democrats in an election manifesto based around investment in green technologies and higher spending on public services, my colleague Peter Walker reports.

Johnson says he is committed to the nuclear deterrent. That investment will continue, he says.

He says Jeremy Corbyn has been a unilateralist and in favour of getting rid of the nuclear deterrent.

And that’s it. The Q&A is over.

Johnson seemed to get a respectful hearing from the workforce, but it was hard to detect much evidence of enthusiasm for him from what was said in the questions.

Q: Why do MPs think the 17.4m people who voted for Brexit did not know what they voted for?

Johnson says most MPs voted remain. He says Brexit provides great opportunities. The UK can still be great friends with the EU. But it should be able to determine its future, he says.

Q: Can you guarantee us that you will never sell off the NHS?

Yes, says Johnson. He says what Jeremy Corbyn was saying about this last night was an invention. The NHS is a fantastic thing, he says. He says under no circumstances will it be for the sale. He says he will invest massively in it. And he can because he understands how to achieve a strong economy.

He says Corbyn has produced this “nonsense” because they want to conceal the gap in their Brexit plan. They won’t say what they want to do. He says he asked Corbyn nine times what side he would be on in the next Brexit referendum. Johnson says he did not get an answer. That is not “dynamic leadership”.

Q: You say you believe in low taxes. Is that for people like you, or people like us?

Johnson says he is talking about low taxes for the people here. He says Labour’s policies would inevitably lead to higher taxes. “The problem with socialism is that you always run out of other people’s money.”

He says he wants a high-wage, high-skills, low-tax economy.

Q: Will foreign workers be hired for the new ships being built by Babcock?

Johnson says Brexit will allow the UK to take control of its immigration policy. That does not mean the country will become hostile to immigrants, he says.

He says he would like to have a shipbuilding renaissance in this country.

He says the Type 26 frigate is an amazing ship. He wants to be able to export them to the US.

In response to a question about social care, Johnson says he understands the problem. More money has been put into social care. And he will put “a lot more” in, he says.

Johnson is now taking questions.

Q: It took a long time to get trade deals with other countries. How confident are you you can get trade deals quickly.

Johnson says he has a deal ready to go.

(He is talking about the withdrawal agreement, but he was asked about post-Brexit trade deals – a completely different matter.)

He says, after Brexit, we will be able to change our rules on animal welfare.

That deal is ready to go, he says. He can put his deal in the oven – gas mark four, gas mark eight – and by January it will be pretty crispy, he says.

Johnson asks his audience how enthusiastic they are about another Brexit referendum. Let’s get this done, he says.

Boris Johnson is opening with a version of his standard stump speech.

He claims that he had to have an election because parliament was blocking Brexit. He has an oven-ready Brexit deal all ready to go.

One thing to note about Nicola Sturgeon on this election campaign so far: she looks like she is really enjoying herself. She is smiley, joking with activists and media and generally more relaxed than she’s appeared for a while. At her speech this morning (see 1.30pm) told reporters that she was picking up “enthusiasm and optimism” about a second referendum from voters. Despite telling activists that everyone is “heartily sick” of Brexit, that attitude clearly doesn’t extend to constitutional matters.

She was also clear that Boris Johnson was wrong about a current deal between Labour and the SNP on a second independence referendum, although asked about her red lines for future post-election negotiations she joked that Jeremy Corbyn’s “were looking pretty pink”. She added that she thought Corbyn has “kind of accepted the principle” of Scotland deciding its own future.

Sturgeon says it was no inevitable that Brexit had to be this chaotic.

She says, if Scotland were to vote for independence, the process of separating from England would not have to be like Brexit.

Q: Boris Johnson said last night Labour had already done a deal with the SNP on independence. Jeremy Corbyn said that was not true. But this morning Humza Yousef said in practice Labour would allow an early second referendum. (See 10.54am.)

Sturgeon says she is surprised anyone believes anything Johnson says.

She says there has been no deal with Labour.

But she says she agrees with what Yousef said this morning. Jeremy Corbyn favours self-determination “for virtually every other country on the planet”, she says.

She says she would expect Scotland’s desire for a second referendum to be granted.

Sturgeon says continued Westminster control poses multiple threats to Scotland.

She says she will give three examples.

First, Brexit could harm the Scottish economy. Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal would cost the Scottish economy £9bn by the end of the decade, she says.

Second, Brexit would lead to the Scottish workforce shrinking, she says. There would be particular problems in the care sector. She says the Tories are “deliberately and shamefully” giving the impression that EU workers are a burden, not a resource. That is shameful, she says.

Third, the Tories would reduce Scotland’s powers, she says She says they have already used Brexit to take powers from the Scottish parliament, legislating for the first time in this area without the approval of the Scottish parliament.

She says the Tories are desperate to do a trade deal with the US. That could lead to large prices in NHS drugs. And the Tories would over-ride Scottish wishes if Scotland tried to get in the way of that trade deal.

Sturgeon says Labour cannot win in Scotland.

In all the 13 Scottish seats the Tories hold, the SNP are the challengers, she says.

Strugeon turns to the Lib Dems. She says there now seem to be more Tories in the Lib Dems than there are Lib Dems.

She says one of the Tory defectors to the Lib Dems (she is referring to Sam Gyimah) described free university tuition as a fantasy. But it is not a fantasy in Scotland, she says.

The full tables from the YouGov poll last night on the ITV leaders’ debate are now available on its website here (pdf).

Laurence Janta-Lipinksi, a polling specialist, thinks the raw data reflect well on Jeremy Corbyn.

I’ve corrected the post at 9.54am because it contained a significant typo. Dawn Butler criticised Boris Johnson for saying in the debate last night that the monarchy was beyond reproach, not for saying that the monarch was beyond reproach. Johnson was commenting on the royal family generally, not the Queen as an individual. Sorry for the error.

You can read all the Guardian’s coverage of last night’s election debate on our election page here. And here is a roundup of what journalists and commentators were saying about it on Twitter last night.

From Patrick Maguire’s Morning Call email briefing for the New Statesman

Call it a score draw? Well, it depends. Given Jeremy Corbyn’s less than stellar personal ratings, that the viewing public and this morning’s serious papers concluded there was little in it will have heartened the Labour leadership. And given that Boris Johnson sold himself to Conservative MPs and members as the only candidate able to defeat Corbyn for good, his failure to do so on a debate stage he had no real incentive to be on will have set alarm bells ringing in some Tory quarters - albeit quietly. Strikingly, nearly half of 2017 Conservative voters surveyed by YouGov last night thought the Labour leader performed well.

But look beyond what the numbers say about who won or lost last night and the real question is whether either succeeded in changing the electoral game altogether ...

For all the audible contempt for Johnson among the studio audience – several of his answers, just like Corbyn’s, were met with derisive laughter – the Conservatives will still be broadly happy with their lot. They know they are more or less the only game in town for leave voters and most Scots unionists and Corbyn was unwilling to respond in kind.

From Michael Deacon in the Daily Telegraph (paywall)

In all honesty, the most memorable answers were for the most inane question. Right at the end, a young man in the audience asked Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn what present they would give each other for Christmas.

Mr Corbyn said he would give the prime minister a copy of A Christmas Carol by Dickens: “So you can see how nasty Scrooge was.” Mr Johnson said that he would give Mr Corbyn “a good read” too: “a copy of my brilliant Brexit deal”.

If that seems vapid and inane, it was at least in keeping with the rest of the broadcast – because, although it was meant to be the first big debate of this election campaign, it didn’t really feel like a debate at all. It simply never got going. In fact, it wasn’t allowed to. Throughout, the moderator, Julie Etchingham, kept butting in to cut the two leaders short (“Thank you, Mr Johnson! Thank you, Mr Corbyn!”), and so they rarely if ever got beyond the soundbites they’d come armed with. In the end, it felt like little more than a rushed, bullet-point digest of both sides’ slogans.

From Paul Goodman at ConservativeHome

In football terms, Johnson played a high press and Corbyn relied on counter-attack. Neither scored.

Which takes us back to our start. The Labour leader didn’t win the debate. So he had no victory with which to cut through to voters. And so the prime minister doesn’t have any ground to make up in the further TV debates – or elsewhere.

That suits him fine.

From Quentin Letts in the Times (paywall)

One of the most striking things was the audience laughter. You normally expect the two teams’ supporters to clap like maniacs but last night they deployed forced, supportive, mocking, occasionally genuinely disbelieving laughter as a weapon of attrition.

“Does the truth matter? Of course,” Mr Johnson said. A roar of ironic mirth from the Corbyn supporters in the crowd. The same thing happened in reverse when Mr Corbyn, after struggling to explain his Brexit position, said: “I’ve made the position clear.” A great belch of merriment from the audience.

From Sky’s Beth Rigby

Plaid Cymru is today calling for the creation of a new tax credit for people who pay more than 30% of their income on rent and utilities. This is from Ben Lake, who is seeking re-election as MP for Ceredigion.

Everyone in Wales should have safe, stable and suitable housing but that’s fast becoming the privilege of fewer people every year.

Renters in Wales have a bad deal: 37% of private renters in Wales earn less than £15,000, and almost half of private households in Wales spend more than 30% of their income on housing costs.

This leaves over 100,000 households with very little to spend on basic living expenses like food, heating or transport.

Plaid Cymru will help those people by creating a new tax credit of up to £25 a week to households paying over 30% of their income on private rent and utilities, providing people with much needed relief and flexibility to spend on other vital needs like food, heating and transport.

In their manifesto, which will be launched this afternoon, the Liberal Democrats will call for the introduction of safe standing areas in all-seater football stadia. Layla Moran, the party’s culture spokeswoman, said:

Football matches in this country should not be subject to the bureaucracy of executives and ministers who are stuck in the past, and don’t understand the game. People want to see safe standing in their stadiums, they want the knock-on effect of a reduction in ticket prices, and they want to be free to enjoy the sport they love without restrictive red tape.

Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, has said it is “sickening” to hear Jo Swinson, the Lib Dem leader, say last night that she would be willing to use a nuclear weapon.

From ITV’s Paul Brand, who is on the Tory battlebus

Some readers have been asking below the line why the page on the YouGov website with the results of its poll on the leaders’ debate has a 6.50pm timestamp, which was more than an hour before the debate even started. A YouGov spokesman has called with (as I expected) an innocent explanation. He said that, knowing it would have to turn around the poll results quickly, YouGov launched the web page in advance of the debate. The article originally said something about how the poll results would be published on that page after the debate ended. Later the article was updated with the poll findings. But the timestamp still reflected the original publication time.

This is from Peter Kellner, the former president of YouGov, the polling organisation.

Both sets of findings from the YouGov snap poll after the debate were covered on our live blog last night. More people thought Boris Johnson won than Jeremy Corbyn won, but more people thought Corbyn performed well than Johnson performed well. That sounds like a contradiction, but it isn’t necessarily. In sport, the winning team isn’t always the one that plays best.

Here is Caroline Lucas, who is campaigning for re-election as a Green party MP, on the Tories’ abuse of Twitter last night.

Good morning. I’m Andrew Sparrow, taking over from Damien Gayle.

There are only two biggish events in the diary for the day.

12pm: Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, gives a speech in Dundee on the ‘Tory threat’ to Scotland’s services.

5pm: The Liberal Democrats launch their manifesto.

There are also various, more low-level campaign events taking place, including Boris Johnson campaigning on the Tory battlebus.

The Liberal Democrats promise an emergency £4.6bn cash injection into schools, Layla Moran, the party’s education spokeswoman, told Radio 4’s Today programme this morning.

The initial sum would increase to more than £10bn by 2024-25, if the Lib Dems formed the next government, Moran said. It would be funded from the £15bn that the party says it can conjure up as a “remain bonus” from halting Brexit.

Moran’s education pledges went beyond the purely financial. She continued:

Also, we would value our teachers more. We would end the punitive, high-stakes testing regime that we have in schools. We would replace Ofsted with an inspectorate that has wellbeing at the core of what it does.

Her comments will be welcomed by many in the profession. Ofsted, Moran said, has been responsible for “narrowing the curriculum [and] a focus on data”.

After their involvement in the coalition government and the tripling of fees for university students, the Liberal Democrats do not have a good reputation when it comes to education pledges. The party had promised during the 2010 election not to increase fees.

Moran was not challenged on the record. She pledged that the party would “review student finance and bring back maintenance grants”.

In case you missed it, the Guardian’s media editor, Jim Waterson, reported on the factcheck controversy last night, including criticism from the established factchecking organisation Full Fact.

As Waterson reported, Full Fact, which is run by a charity, said it had complained to Twitter and said the account should not be allowed to be used in this way while verified. “It is inappropriate and misleading for the Conservative press office to rename their Twitter account ‘factcheckUK’ during this debate. Please do not mistake it for an independent factchecking service.”

No one really landed any telling blows, with the whole show descending into second-rate light entertainment. Even Prince Andrew could probably have made a better fist of answering the questions. Despite talking over Corbyn and Etchingham at every opportunity – his ego can’t allow the possibility of conversation – Johnson reverted to bluster and lies while trying to steer everything back to his Brexit deal that he had rejected 18 months previously.

Corbyn couldn’t even take advantage of the most open of goals. One questioner asked about personal trust. Here was the Labour leader’s chance to ask Boris how many children he had, his relationship with Jennifer Arcuri and his broken promises to family and country. It would have been a slam-dunk moment that could have maybe changed the momentum of the election. But Corbyn blew it. The first half ended with an insincere handshake.

The rest was something of a non-event. Corbyn scored well on the NHS with a redacted document but the audience was so dispirited that the debate ended in a Blind Date chat. Corbyn would give Boris A Christmas Carol for Christmas: Johnson would give Corbyn some damson jam. No voters’ minds would be changed. The only winner was Etchingham who somehow held the shitshow together.

Yet despite all this, the debate had revealed something. That voters hold both leaders in open contempt and are in despair that one of them will end up as prime minister. Given the chance to show off their best selves, Johnson and Corbyn had merely proved they didn’t have one. The country was even more screwed than anyone had previously imagined.

Top billing on most of the front pages is given to the election leaders’ debate with some focusing on the snap YouGov poll that declared Boris Johnson won the night 51%-49%. Others highlighted the leaders’ answers, or lack of them.

As for what the parties will be wanting to talk about today: Labour will promise to eliminate what it calls the “10 modern scourges of poverty”, from soaring food bank use to childhood deprivation, in its latest attack on the Conservatives’ record in government. Among its policies are increasing the minimum wage to £10 an hour and extending it to under-25s; reforming universal credit; and scrapping restrictive rules including the two-child limit and the benefits cap.

The Lib Dems will launch their manifesto in London and announce a plan to extend the scope of free school meals; increase schools spending by more than £10bn a year within the next parliament; and recruit 20,000 more teachers.

The Tories have announced a package of policies for victims of crime, which includes allowing victims and the media to apply to attend parole hearings and a 25% increase in the victims surcharge – a fine on offenders that goes towards refuges and community support for victims of domestic and sexual abuse.

Good morning and welcome to today’s politics news. It is the day after the night before and if you missed the debate we have a lot of material to catch you up. Start here with our wrap of what happened.

Rowena Mason offers her analysis including the leaders’ best lines, worst moments and overall pitch. Our panel has given its verdict on how Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn fared. We’ve fact-checked the leaders’ claims, and there is news about the Conservative press office changing its Twitter name to make it look like a factchecking service for the duration of the debate.

Leaders of minor parties have shared their views on what went down on ITV, as have readers, who have delivered their mostly unflattering verdicts. Dan Sabbagh writes that Corbyn outperformed expectations, Andrew Sparrow gives his take, and John Crace has written a devastating sketch, which closes with the observation that “given the chance to show off their best selves, Johnson and Corbyn had merely proved they didn’t have one”.

As usual, you can reach me on Twitter here. I’ll be looking after the blog for the first hour or so.