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What are the main policy pledges that have been made by the major parties in the 2017 general election campaign?

Here's a round-up of the day's top stories:

• rules over the 2015 general election "battle bus"
• by 2022 by significantly raising business taxes
• against other candidates to avoid splitting the anti-Tory vote
• , the leader of the Women's Equality Party says
• in a bid to "get the Brexit we want", its leader Paul Nuttall says.

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The University of Manchester's decision to cut 171 posts is due to "new government legislation and Brexit", a union has claimed.

The university says the move is necessary for it to be a world-leading institution.

But the University and College Union (UCU) said the university was in "a strong financial position".

Both academics and support staff jobs are at risk. 

A university spokesman said cuts would be made in the biology, medicine, health, business and humanities departments.

UKIP is backing Labour candidates that are "true Brexiteers" in a bid to "get the Brexit we want", its leader Paul Nuttall has said. 

He says this includes UKIP voters in former Labour minister Kate Hoey's Vauxhall seat being asked to back her.

UKIP faces "a difficult" general election and the prospect of winning only two seats, he says.

But Mr Nuttall predicts voters will return to UKIP if Theresa May "backslides" on Brexit negotiations.

Footage has also emerged of shadow chancellor John McDonnell saying that Labour would scrap tuition fees as part of its national education service.

Speaking at a rally in Mansfield in April, Mr McDonnell said: 

The ECJ ruling could have implications for those affected by the UK's decision to leave the EU.

The Scottish Greens say they will have a "targeted" campaign, with the focus on getting Patrick Harvie elected.

Theresa May has told an audience at a factory at Mansfield that a Conservative government after the election would not scrap university tuition fees in England.

Pressed over the issue following reports that Labour may be planning to get rid of tuition fees, Mrs May said the question for Labour was how they would pay for that pledge, warning that it would "wreck the economy".

She added: "If you wreck the economy you aren't able to support students, you aren't able to support public services, you see businesses going under, you see jobs going."

Candidates should strictly be campaigning on Westminster issues - but the voters often have other ideas.

Questioned about a rise in homelessness and food bank use, Theresa May says the government is investing £500m to help combat homelessness and also trying to intervene before people become homeless.

"Food banks have been with us for many years," she says, and "there are complex reasons" why people use them.

This echoes last month.

On the inside of the campaign trail,restrictions around journalists questions may be relaxing. A bit.

Here, the Telegraph's chief political correspondent and its sketchwriter tweet:

Theresa May continues her East Midlands campaign day in Mansfield.

She argues that "government has a role to play" in creating a society with opportunities for all, for example by providing affordable homes and good education.

She then takes questions, kicking off with one asking why she will not appear in a live TV debate with other party leaders?

The PM says she "approaching people in other ways" - appearing at events such as this and knocking on doors instead. 

It's a "more traditional campaign", she says.

The Federation of Small Businesses has called for more clarity from Labour about its corporation tax plans.

Labour says it will fund its education plans by raising corporation tax from 19% to 26% over the course of the next Parliament. Speaking earlier, Jeremy Corbyn said this rate would still be lower than the 28% rate in 2010.

However, that was the main rate of corporation tax in 2010, with the rate for small businesses set at 21%. while a 20% rate applies to UK oil extraction.

An FSB spokeswoman said:

Former Irish PM says imaginative thinking is needed to ensure trade is not affected.

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