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Election day ahead: Yorkshire relish, then another TV grilling for May and Corbyn

The Conservative and Labour party leaders will be campaigning in Yorkshire.

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Jeremy Corbyn will be heading to York to talk about his party's industrial strategy (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

On the campaign trail today

Theresa May (Steve Parsons/PA)
Theresa May will be heading to South Yorkshire to campaign (Steve Parsons/PA)

In one week’s time, we ought to have an idea of who will be taking the keys to 10 Downing Street. In the meantime, both Labour and the Conservatives will be working hard to make sure it’s their man or woman taking the top job.

Jeremy Corbyn will be heading to York to talk about his party’s industrial strategy while Theresa May will be also heading to South Yorkshire to campaign. The pair will meet later on for a BBC Question Time special where they will be grilled – separately – by voters.

Lib Dem leader Tim Farron will have a busy Friday – starting the day on the airwaves on LBC, before putting fingers to keys for a Facebook Q&A and webchat with Mumsnet this afternoon.

Green co-leader Caroline Lucas will be in Sheffield and Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon will be travelling to four constituencies north of the border.

What’s in the news?

The Tories have frequently wheeled out the “coalition of chaos” line to describe a scenario where Labour is “propped up” by smaller parties to run the country in the event of a hung parliament, and this thread has been taken up in some of today’s papers.

The Times runs with a story that Labour will try and form a minority government and rely on votes from the Scottish National Party, while the Sun uses less kinder terms saying the party are planning a “potty alliance” with the Lib Dems, Sinn Fein and SNP.

The Sun’s graphic artist team has mocked up a tree with £10, £20 and £50 notes to suggest the “hard-left” Mr Corbyn will “blow a £300 billion hole” in Britain’s finances with his party’s manifesto promises which the paper call “wild”.

The Mirror leads on a story that the knives are out for Mrs May unless she delivers a large majority at the polls next Thursday, suggesting that “stuttering performances and disastrous attacks on older people’s incomes” have Tory candidates grumbling.

The Express front page has a claim from Mrs May that her Labour opponent does not believe in Britain, while the Telegraph suggests the Labour campaign is being boosted by “fake social media accounts”.

Three actors, portraying Jeremy Corbyn, Theresa May and Tim Farron, at a new attraction at Thorpe Park (Matt Alexander/PA)
Three actors portraying Jeremy Corbyn, Theresa May and Tim Farron at a new General Election-themed attraction at Thorpe Park (Matt Alexander/PA)

On a slightly lighter front, a picture appearing in many of the morning’s papers features Mrs May, Mr Corbyn and Mr Farron given a ghoulish makeover for an attraction at Thorpe Park. Grotesque? Well, that’s a matter of opinion…

Who’s saying what?

Jeremy Corbyn (Lauren Hurley/PA)
Jeremy Corbyn is due to give a speech in York (Lauren Hurley/PA)

“Under the Conservatives, the richest have got richer, while most people’s incomes have fallen or stagnated. Labour’s plans will make sure everyone shares in our country’s wealth” – Mr Corbyn, from a speech he is due to give in York on Friday

“Jeremy Corbyn will not create jobs, he will destroy them” – Chancellor Philip Hammond reacting to Labour’s industrial strategy

“This campaign has shown that behind the myth of the bloody difficult woman lies an evasive, narrow-minded, indecisive politician” – Jason Beattie, head of politics at the Daily Mirror on Theresa May

“Corbyn is backed by young voters who swallow every leftie fiction on their Facebook feed and have no understanding of basic economics” – A leader column in the Sun.

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