The social media company has a new filter to try to get people to vote in June's general election.

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Tim Farron has dismissed claims he was against abortion after it emerged that he previously said the practice was "wrong".

The Liberal Democrat leader said he is "pro-choice now and I was pro-choice then" when asked about an interview with a Salvation Army publication in 2007 in which he reportedly condemned the method of terminating a pregnancy.

Mr Farron told the magazine: "Take the issue of abortion. Personally I wish I could argue it away. Abortion is wrong."

Commenting today, Mr Farron told the Press Association: "Looking back on them I may not have explained myself terribly well but I support safe and legal access to abortion.

"I was pro-choice then and I am pro-choice now."

A few more snippets from the Lib Dem manifesto. They would:

• Lower the voting age to 16
• Completely ban all diesel cars and vans
• Mandate the provision of televised leaders’ debates in general elections

Len McCluskey said earlier he'd changed his mind about Labour's prospects after seeing the party's manifesto.

But the BBC understands the Unite leader spoke to the Politico website at 1202 on Tuesday - an hour after the Labour manifesto was published.

He also attended the party's Clause 5 meeting earlier in the week where the manifesto was agreed.

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Conservative peer Lord Forsyth says the Lib Dems are "foolish" to propose to put a penny on everyone's income tax at a time when families are feeling the squeeze from rising inflation.

The right thing to do to get more money into the coffers is increase the tax base - not the tax rates - by growing the economy, Lord Forsyth adds.

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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has called on voters not to give the Tories a "free hand" to pursue an "extreme Brexit".

Campaigning in Mussleburgh in East Lothian, the SNP leader said that Labour was "not fit to be an opposition, based on their current performance".

Nicola Sturgeon said only the SNP would stand up for jobs and public services, against austerity and "an extreme form of Brexit that the Tories seem to want to pursue".

Andrew Neil and Jo Coburn will also speak to Conservative peer Michael Forsyth.

There will be a debate on the Labour Party manifesto, and an interview with the Alliance for Green Socialism, standing in three seats on 8 June.

And reporter Ellie Price has been asking viewers in Dumfries about the role of Scottish independence in the election campaign.

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"We're not at all in denial," says Lord Newby when he's played a clip of Nick Clegg, speaking ahead of the referendum, urging everyone to "just move on" after the EU vote.

The peer says Theresa May may claim this election gives her a mandate to pursue her kind of Brexit, but he insists: "People are not all voting on Brexit in this referendum."

A slightly awkward encounter between the PM and her chancellor did little to ease friction between them.

The Lib Dems say in their manifesto they would raise £1bn by legalising and taxing cannabis.

The jokes are rolling in already...

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"We think a process started by the people should be ended by the people," says Lord Newby, Lib Dem peer on the promise of a second referendum.

Would we just seamlessly stay in the UE if the people voted against the terms of the deal in that referendum, he's asked.

"That would be the proposition," he says. He insists the Brexit decision is "revocable".

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Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was visiting a Sikh temple in St George's, Bristol, where he made some remarks about ending tariffs on whisky between the UK and India.

A Sikh voter who was there took him to task, asking: "How dare you talk about alcohol in a Sikh temple?"

She also told him about alcoholism in her family and he apologised several times.

Unite boss distances himself from an interview in which he predicted Labour would lose the election.

The Lib Dems have set out how much some of their key policies would cost to 2020 and how they would pay for them.

They say they would raise £15.9bn by:

• 1p increase in income tax
• Returning corporation tax to 20%
• Abolishing the marriage allowance, the £1m inheritance tax threshold and reversing capital gains tax cuts
• Setting a target for HM Revenue and Customs to reduce anti-avoidance measures
• Introducing taxation on cannabis
• Limiting asylum detention to 28 days and abolishing PCCs.

They would spend £30bn on:

• Increased spending on early years, schools and colleges including extending 15 hours' childcare to all two-year-olds
• Additional investment in social care, primary care (and other out of hospital care), mental health and public health
• Reintroducing maintenance grants and nursing bursaries
• Lifting the 1% cap on public sector pay
• Providing a discount on bus travel for people aged 16 to 21
• Reinstating the Dubs programme and expand resettlement of refugees
• Reversing cuts to Universal Credit
• Increasing the Carer’s Allowance from £116 to £150
• Abolishing the so-called "bedroom tax" and restoring housing benefit to 18- to 21-year-olds
• Returning working age benefits to uprating with CPI inflation, apart from Job Seekers' Allowance and Universal Credit for 18- to 24-year-olds which will rise in line with the minimum wage.
• Reversing the two child policy on family benefits.

This leaves them with a shortfall of £14.1bn, but they say: "After 2019-20, we will be able to increase public spending roughly in line with the growth of the economy. That means we can protect our public services, while ensuring that debt as a proportion of GDP continues to fall.”

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The Lib Dems' official manifesto launch is this evening, but they've now released details of their plans.

In Tim Farron's introduction, he says: "To be clear, Theresa May’s Conservative Party is on course to win this election. Unless we make a stand, they will walk away with a landslide.

"We risk the arrogance and heartlessness with which she has governed for the last 10 months being reinforced by a majority that no government has had for 20 years.

"The reason? There is a complete absence of real opposition from Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party. On the biggest question facing all of us, Brexit, which has such huge implications for our young people and our future, Corbyn ordered his MPs to stand down against Theresa May’s government.

The home secretary is addressing the Police Federation conference. Our home affairs correspondent is watching and says there was "muted applause" from the audience at the end of her pitch for police votes.

The prime minister laughs off questions about whether she and the chancellor "will still be neighbours".

A quick rundown on things so far:

• A day after Labour's manifesto launch, critics are picking over the policies
• The Tories say there's "a £58bn black hole" in the plans, but the shadow home secretary says all the sums do add up. She wasn't keen to say it on the Today programme though
• Even a Labour ally seemed a bit lukewarm overnight - Unite boss Len McCluskey told an interviewer he couldn't envision a Corbyn victory on 8 June
• But it turns out, he's told the BBC, that he said that before seeing the "fantastic" manifesto, and is "now optimistic" about the party's prospects
• Relations between Theresa May and Philip Hammond are under scrutiny today as well. The chancellor says reports of a rift are "tittle tattle" - although he may get a bit sweary at times - and after a bit of pushing, the PM says she's happy to give him her endorsement
• Finally, we're all eagerly awaiting the launch of the Lib Dem manifesto. To let you into a secret, we've already got it, but have to keep schtum til midday, so don't go anywhere...