Boris Johnson news – live: Expert warns Tory rail fund ‘would only buy 25 miles of track’, as PM makes string of false claims in BBC interview
Boris Johnson has made a series of claims about immigration and knife crime picked apart by fact checkers, and said there was “no evidence” of Russian interference in the UK. He also shut down questions about his family in testy BBC interviews.
He has also earmarked £50m for the rejuvenation of railways closed under the Beeching cuts of the 1960s - however figures in the rail sector are unconvinced by the amount pledged
It comes as Labour promises to nationalise part of BT and deliver free broadband for all the country if elected, with Jeremy Corbyn set to reveal more as he campaigns in the north-west today.
Nigel Farage, meanwhile, has claimed that the Tories offered jobs and peerages to his Brexit Party candidates in a bid to get them to drop out of marginal seats. Mr Farage said he expected “police investigations into what has gone on here”.
