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UK: General Election Lunchtime Update:
- Last night's Johnson-Corbyn debate changed little in the campaign, with no
knock-out blow. Focus afterwards has been on the Conservatives changing the name
of their twitter account to 'factcheckUK' during the debate. 
- Interviews with smaller parties' leaders fails to deliver any major event,
beyond Lib Dem Jo Swinson saying she would use nukes as PM if required. 
- SNP MP claims Labour would "without a doubt" agree to 2nd Scot indy ref in
2020 despite Corbyn's denials in the debate. 
- Lib Dems launch manifesto at 1700GMT, GBP10bn extra for schools in England. 
- Last 24hrs Opinion Polling: 
-- YouGov: Who performed best in ITV debate: Johnson: 51% Corbyn: 49%
-- YouGov: CON: 42% (-3) LAB: 30% (+2) LDEM: 15% (-) BREX: 4% (-)
-- KantarTNS: CON: 45%(+8) LAB: 27%(-) LDEM: 16%(-1) GRN: 3%(-) BREX: 2%(-7)
- Latest Betting Probabilities (Betfair), %: Con maj 65.1, Lab min 13.7, Con min
8.5, Lab/SNP 3.1. Yesterday: Con maj 63.7, Lab min 15.2, Con min 7.7, Lab/SNP
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