General election: Here's what happened on day 12 of the campaign
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Monday 18 November 2019 10:00, UK
We're nearly two weeks into the general election campaign. Here's your quick rundown of what happened on day 12.
In a sentence: The Conservatives revealed their post-Brexit immigration plans, while Labour shelved a motion passed at their party conference in September to maintain free movement.
In a paragraph: Home Secretary Priti Patel said she wanted the vast majority of migrants to have a job offer to come to the UK to work, regardless of where they are from in the world. That shone the spotlight on Labour's policy, but shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth refused to say whether the party backed immigration going up or down.
In 100 words: We're heading into policy blitz territory, as most of the political parties prepare to publish their manifestos.
So the Conservatives were keen to hit Labour on the subject that has recently divided the party: immigration.
Top Tories are pledging now to bring "overall migration down" by introducing a points-based system and barring everyone but highly skilled scientists and those that want to start a business from coming to the UK without an offer of work.
Labour, meanwhile, announced its own promise to give everyone in England free dental checks.
The British Dental Association has estimated it will cost £450m per year.
Still want more? Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab played down the chance of a no-deal divorce at the end of the Brexit transition period, saying it is "not remotely likely".
He also insisted the UK would not align with EU rules as part of negotiations on a future trade deal with Brussels.
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Meanwhile, Jeremy Corbyn repeatedly refused to say whether he wanted Britain to leave the bloc or not, simply saying he wanted to maintain a close relationship and that he would negotiate a "credible" Leave option if he became prime minister after the 12 December election.
Carolyn Fairbairn, head of the Confederation of British Industry, cast doubts on both Labour and the Conservative plans.
She said talk of the Tories' immigration system only attracting the brightest and best was "worrying" because after Brexit there needs to be immigration "at all skill levels".
And she said Labour's pledges could "crack the foundations of our economy", and that some businesses were worried "maybe we're next" in the planned nationalisation programme.
Meanwhile, Nigel Farage shed more light on claims that senior Tory figures offered Brexit Party election candidates jobs to get them to stand down and not split the Leave vote.
"Ann Widdecombe made it perfectly clear she received two phone calls, from a senior official in Number 10, offering her a job on the negotiating team if she stood down as an election candidate. Fact," he told BBC Radio 5 Live.
"Fact number two, [Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief strategic adviser] Sir Eddie Lister, rang up our candidate for Peterborough, offering him a job in higher education if he stood down as a candidate."
And the US businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri, who is at the centre of a conflict of interest row with Mr Johnson, told him: "I don't understand why you've blocked me and ignored me as if I was some fleeting one-night stand or some girl that you picked up at a bar because I wasn't - and you know that."
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Every single general election the Tory immigration minister gets wheeled out to say this. Have they ever delivered it? Have they heck. I mean, do you believe him? I don't.
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