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'I've never seen the hall as packed for a prime minister's speech.' IanKingSky says 'everyone' was there to hear BorisJohnson at the CBI conference, but calls postponing cuts to corporation tax a 'calculated risk'. Follow live updates 👉 GE2019

Mr Corbyn says Labour will upgrade infrastructure across the country with £250bn over 10 years.Another £150bn will go into schools, hospitals, care homes and housing over five years.The Labour leader says the PM's Brexit deal won't get Brexit done, instead it will be years of negotiations.He says the NHS will be separate from any deal and they will make that binding by law.

CBI chair Caroline Fairburn said it was highly unusual to have three party leaders - Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson is on later - speaking at the same conference on the same day, and even more unusual to have Mr Johnson and Mr Corbyn one after the other.Ian King, Sky News' business presenter, says he's"never seen the hall as packed" as it was for Boris Johnson today.

Johnson says"we're off to a flying start - I see absolutely no reason why we should not get it done in the time available".Corporation tax cuts postponed The Tory leader adds:"The country is being held back by politics - by a parliament that for the last three-and-a-half years has simply failed to discharge its basic promise made umpteen times to honour the mandate of the people and deliver Brexit."'Compelling offer' v 'complete turn-off'

"Because we believe that any form of Brexit, whether it's hard or soft, blue or red, will be bad for jobs, business and our public services.

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