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UK: General Election Midday Summary:
- PM announces shelving of cut to corp tax rate planned in 2019, but cut to
business rates. Attempt to dull Lab attack on Cons as party of "big business".
- Labour leader Corbyn announces to CBI he is not anti-business and "more
investment than you've ever dreamed of". Lab manifesto coming Thursday. 
- SNP and Lib Dems due in court in attempt to be included in Tuesday's TV debate
between Johnson and Corbyn. 
- Weekend Opinion Polling:
-- Survation: CON: 42% LAB: 28% LDEM: 13% BREX: 5% GRN: 3%
-- BMG: CON: 37% (-) LAB: 29% (-) LDEM: 16% (-) BREX: 9% (-)
-- YouGov: CON: 45% (+3) LAB: 28% (-) LDEM: 15% (-) BREX: 4% (-)
-- Deltapoll: CON: 45% (+4) LAB: 30% (+1) LDEM: 11% (-5) BREX: 6% (-)
-- ComRes: CON: 41% (+1) LAB: 33% (+3) LDEM: 14% (-2) BREX: 5% (-2) GRN: 2% (-1)
-- Opinium: CON: 44% (+3) LAB: 28% (-1) LDEM: 14% (-1) BREX: 6% (-)
- Latest betting probabilities (Betfair), %: Con maj 67.8, Lab min 13.9, Con min
7.1, Lab/SNP 3.2. Friday: Con maj 60.1, Lab min 16.5, Con min 8.9, Lab/SNP 3.0 

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