Today Programme
BBC Radio 4

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is defending the Conservatives' social care pledge, particularly for families whose loved ones end up in care homes, stressing that the party is "being very upfront" about difficult decisions.

At the moment "we have the terrible injustice" that someone finds themselves "cleaned out" of all but £23,000 of their savings if a relative enters a care home, he says.

Under Tory plans, families will be left with £100,000 they can "pass on to their children", he says, adding that this system is fairer.

Simon Jack
BBC Business Editor

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With an election three weeks away, it would be normal to start seeing letters in national newspapers from the chief executives of the UK's biggest companies setting out their priorities for the next government.

A helpful reminder from the commercial powers-that-be that businesses, not government, create prosperity - and their needs should be high on any political party's agenda.

So far - nothing.

Why has business lost its voice?

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Voters have been turning to Google for help in deciding who to back in the forthcoming general election.

Data released to BBC News reveals the areas of the UK where "who should I vote for" was the most popular request.

There has also been a rise in searches for "register to vote" ahead of Monday's deadline.

Politics expert Professor Colin Copus said people were researching their options.

Read more here.

BBC Breakfast

More from Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt on social care... He says the cost of the proposed changes will be around £2bn a year.

They will be funded by restricting the winter fuel allowance, he says, and also by "simplifying the way we do means-testing for state-funded social care".

There's no panacea, he says, adding that there are difficult trade-offs.

Today Programme
BBC Radio 4

Wealthy pensioners will lose up to £300 in winter fuel payments and more elderly people could be forced to pay to be looked after in their own homes under Theresa May's plans to tackle the social care funding crisis.

Sir Andrew Dilnot, who reviewed the social care system for the Coalition government, says the changes "are not bad in themselves" but "fail to tackle the central problem that scares most people". He says the biggest problem is people are left "helpless" and in a "position of no control".

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has been speaking to BBC Breakfast.

On the changes to social care and winter fuel allowance his focus is on the £100,000 protected from the cost of care.

"Everyone will have the security of knowing they can pass on £100,000 to their chidren and grandchildren," he said, adding that many grandparents worry about the standard of living their children and grandchildren have.

"We are saying to pay for that there's a trade off."

"What we're going to hear today is Theresa May's plan to get Britain working better for ordinary families."

He's unwilling to say what will be the income limit for cutting off the winter fuel allowance, saying: "We're not going to give an exact number today.

"We are going to have a detailed consultation if we win the election, but we are saying it will only available for the poorest pensioners."

Here's a bit more detail on the Conservative manifesto.

• The winter fuel allowance, worth up to £300 for pensioners will be means tested
• The value of someone's property will now be included in the means test for care in their own home.
• An increase in the threshold to £100,000 - an increase from the current £23,250 level in England.
• The end of the triple-lock on state pensions, tying rises by the highest of average earnings, inflation or 2.5%.
• An end to universal free lunches for infants.
• The immigration skills charge will double to £2,000.
• Doubling the immigration skills charge for firm to £2000.

• We have the Conservative's manifesto launch by Theresa May this morning.
• Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will be addressing a rally in London after appearing on BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine show.
• UKIP's Roger Helmer will be talking energy at a press conference in Westminster.
• And the leaders of all seven main parties have been invited to take part in a debate on ITV at 20:00 BST. However, Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May have both said they'll be no-shows, leading to a straight five-way fight between the Lib Dems, UKIP, Greens, the SNP and Plaid Cymru.

There will be campaigning by Welsh Labour today after the death of Rhodri Morgan.

Waless first first minister has died, aged 77.

Mr Morgan was elected as an MP in 1987 and became an AM when the assembly was created in 1999.

He took the helm of the assembly nine months later, replacing Alun Michael who had stood down and was widely credited with having brought stability to the fledgling institution after a turbulent start.

His successor, Carwyn Jones, said Wales had "lost a father figure".

Mr Morgan served as first minister for nine years, from 2000 to 2009, before Mr Jones took over as first minister and Welsh Labour leader.

The Conservatives say their manifesto will ensure greater fairness among the generations.

BBC political editor Norman Smith says we seem to be seeing a shift in the Tory party away from a focus on middle England and the middle classes.

Mrs May is taking a fairly unflinching approach to issues affecting sections of the community previously shielded from austerity by Conservative governments such as pensioners.

Anyone who thought Mrs May, faced with Brexit, would go for a quiet life "will be disabused by this manifesto," he says.

"What we are seeing is Mrs May concluding that now is the moment of maximum power for her. If she wins this election, this is when she can push through the sort of changes she wants [before] later in an administration, the strains of Brexit, the strains of government, denude her political capital.

"She's going to do it now".

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So what should we be expecting in today's Conservative manifesto?

Well, the BBC understands there will be new measures to curb immigration - including making firms pay more to hire migrants - while winter fuel payments will be means-tested and the savings used to fund social care.

The deadline to register to vote in the UK General Election is 22 May, so here's some good reasons why you should sign up if you haven't already.

We're here with all the latest as we continue manifesto week.

We've had Labour (draft and final versions) the Lib Dems and now the Conservatives, who will be launching the policies they'll be fighting the general election on later.

We're expecting Theresa May to be doing the honours from Yorkshire around mid-morning.

It's been a busy end to a wet Wednesday so we'll fill you in on the key bits while you dry off:

Theresa May unveils her manifesto of immigration curbs, social care and cuts to winter fuel payments

Only hours earlier, the Lib Dems officially launched theirs - including a second vote on Brexit - under disco lights

Unite's Len McCluskey is now flush with optimism about Labour's election hopes despite saying in an interview he could not see the party winning

Boris Johnson landed himself in hot water over whisky comments at a Sikh place of worship

And Wales has paid tribute to former First Minister Rhodri Morgan - "a father figure" - who has died at 77.

BBC Newsnight

The former Lib Dem business secretary lays out how he sees it:

Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn says:

Former Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair says: