UK general election live: Nigel Farage pressed on migration claim as Labour makes jobs

Earlier we reported on comments from shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, on Labour seeking closer trade ties with the EU in certain areas.

Nigel Farage, meanwhile, said the UK should instead focus on the trade with the rest of the world – rather than the EU’s “declining part” of the global economy.

Zoe Gardner, from the pro-EU campaign group Another Europe is Possible, says Brexit is the “massive elephant in the room” that nobody wants to talk about.

As a reminder, neither Labour nor the Conservatives are planning for the UK to rejoin the EU. But Gardner says Brexit is impacting the UK’s economy, trade, and food production.

“It’s more sneaky to pretend that this isn’t an issue or to pretend that we don’t have to discuss it democratically in the process of an election campaign,” Gardner tells Nicky Campbell on 5 Live.

But on the same show, journalist Poppy Coburn from the Telegraph says the cost of living crisis and low wages are “longstanding problems” that people link to the more recent decision to leave the EU.