Orla Moore
BBC Local Live

A Clacton councillor says he's "very angry" at the decision by UKIP to field a national candidate in the town's seat for the General Election. 

Jeff Bray had previously defeated national executive committee member Paul Oakley in a vote by the local party. 

In emails seen by BBC Essex's political reporter Simon Dedman, one local activist said the decision was "shambolic".  

Clacton's sitting MP, Douglas Carswell, had been UKIP's only MP until he quit the party - and later announced he would not stand for re-election.  

Former party donor Arron Banks, who had previously put himself forward to stand in the seat, tweeted: "Paul is a good chap, disappointing that the branch couldn't select their own candidate - it's the reason I didn't stand".

Mr Oakley will compete in the seat against Liberal Democrat David Grace, Labour's Natasha Osben, Independent Caroline Shearer, Chris Southall from the Green Party and Conservative Giles Watling.  

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The UK government pledges to remove the "most unpopular" parts of the Common Fisheries Policy after Brexit.

BBC News Channel

BBC political correspondent Alex Forsyth says the Labour marginal seat Theresa May chose for her appearance today is - "one that she thinks she can take" on polling day.

Alex says Mrs May said the election was "not about how people have voted before, it's about what's right for the country".

As the signs behind her indicate, "brand May" is being pushed. She says:

The campaign is focusing on the Tory leader because the party thinks she "comes across as more credible" than Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, says Alex.

BBC Newsnight

If the Conservatives were to win the constituency of Bishop Auckland that would put them on track for a landslide general election victory. Could it happen in a seat that has been Labour since 1935? BBC Newsnight's political editor Nicholas Watt reports.  

Dominic Casciani
Home Affairs Correspondent

It's worth explaining why the Crown Prosecution Service decided not to authorise anyone to be charged over the 2015 election expenses allegations. 

Quite simply, it comes down to the difference between an expense return being wrong and the candidate and their team knowing it to be so. The Representation of the People Act says that candidates and agents must submit a complete and correct log of spending. But... while it's a technical offence to submit an incomplete return, a jury would have to be sure that the agent or candidate acted "knowingly or dishonestly". Here's the key sentence from today's decision, external: 

Theresa May takes a handful of questions after her campaign speech, including on school funding and the CPS verdict on the Tory expenses cases.

After Labour and Lib Dems pledged more funding for schools, Mrs May is asked if she will consider abandoning planned changes to the school funding formula in England.

The government's proposed changes have been opposed by some headteachers and parents who feel they are unreasonable.

Mrs May insists that "people have accepted for years now that the current formula is unfair". and the government will respond to a consultation, external which closed in March.

On expenses, she repeats the line from other senior Tories that the party's candidates had "done nothing wrong".

There was an error made in the party's election returns and it paid a fine, she says, adding that other parties were also fined.

Theresa May is addressing supporters in Nottinghamshire, telling them that "we can take absolutely nothing for granted" ahead of polling day.

She invites them to picture "Jeremy Corbyn sitting at the negotiating table with the combined might of the European Commission and 27 other member states".

She claims "a vote for any other party is a step closer to Jeremy Corbyn sitting at that Brexit negotiating table".

In a clear pitch for those other parties' supporters, Mrs May says the election is "not about how people have voted before".

While polls put the Conservatives clearly in the lead, the PM tells her party that polls got the 2015 election wrong, the EU referendum wrong and "Jeremy Corbyn was a 200-to-one outsider for the Labour leadership".

The World at One
BBC Radio 4

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BBC political editor Norman Smith speaks to the World at One after the CPS announced no Conservatives will face charges for breaches of expenses rules over the 2015 general election "battle bus".

He notes that Liberal Democrat candidate Tessa Munt joined party leader Tim Farron in stressing the need for election rules to be upheld.

Ms Munt has said the election should be "about policies and ideas and not about who has the most money".

However, Norman says that the expenses row could disappear quite quickly in the "hurly-burly" of the election campaign.

The World at One
BBC Radio 4

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What do you do if you are a Labour candidate in a marginal seat who feels abandoned by the national party and under attack from a well-funded Conservative campaign?

The World at One has discovered that some Labour MPs haven't exactly been sticking to the official script, including Paul Farrelly in the highly marginal Newcastle-under-Lyme.

BBC political correspondent Iain Watson, who spoke to Mr Farrelly, says the Labour candidate is campaigning as "a local candidate for local people".

Iain says that "most [Labour] MPs with less than 5,000 majorities are in trouble" and some with larger majorities are also worried.

Of speculation that "moderate" MPs might break away if Labour loses the election, Iain says: "I think that's unlikely, as many do believe their party can be wrestled back from the left."

A full list of candidates for Newcastle-under-Lyme will be available on the BBC News website after nominations have closed.

BBC Scotland is hosting a series of "Ask the leaders" debates and is calling for members of the public to join the audiences.

BBC Look North, Yorkshire

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said his party accepts the result of the EU referendum and "Britain is leaving the EU".

Yesterday, he was asked repeatedly whether Britain would leave the EU if he becomes prime minister but did not give a clear answer.

Speaking to BBC Look North during a campaign visit to Leeds today, Mr Corbyn said:

The Labour leader was then asked by presenter Amy Garcia: 'Whatever the agreement, we are out?' 

He replied: "I've made that very clear."

BBC Radio 5 live

Former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has told BBC Radio 5 live's Emma Barnett that voters should choose the SNP even if they were against Scottish independence.

The SNP candidate for Gordon said his party “[provided] the voice for Scotland” and were the “only real opposition to the Tory government at Westminster”.

Mr Salmond added that the 2017 general election would not be about Scottish independence:

“This election cannot decide independence. Independence will be decided by a referendum”, he said.

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You have to admire Tim Farron's pluck, writes Paul Walter, on the Lib Dem voice blog, external, in deciding to pose for pictures aboard a search and rescue hovercraft in Burnham-on-Sea on Tuesday.

As a keen student of liberal history Mr Farron will have known all about Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe's campaigning adventures aboard a hovercraft in 1974, says Walter.

Mr Thorpe, who led the party from 1967 to 1976, is probably best remembered now for standing trial for conspiracy to murder in the late 1970s. He was cleared of the charges.

BBC Radio Leeds

On the big election issue of the day, Jeremy Corbyn has told Liz Green on Radio Leeds:

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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon says the Conservatives still have "big questions" to answer after prosecutors said no charges would be brought over Conservative election spending on battle buses in 2015.

She said the CPS had said there was evidence that election returns may have been inaccurate, but: "They just don't have the evidence of the criminal intent that would have enabled them to prosecute."

Alluding to the Electoral Commission's £70,000 fine for the party over the issue, Ms Sturgeon said: "There is lots to suggest the Tories were kind of at it when it came to how they were allocating election expenses in some constituencies."

And Scotland's first minister added that she thought it "likely" that the potential threat of prosecutions was a factor in the decision to call a general election.

The Daily Politics

Sophie Walker, leader of the Women's Equality Party, says it will be fielding candidates with "new and fresh voices" - many of whom are untouched by politics.

The party, which was founded in 2015 and advocates policies including equal parental leave, will look at how investment can be made in the "social infrastructure" of the country.

"How about we invest in free childcare?" she tells BBC2's Daily Politics. "That would have a transformative impact on the lives of women in this country."

Jo Coburn
Daily Politics presenter