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  • SNP postpones manifesto launch

  1. What do the latest polls say?published at 09:24 British Summer Time 22 May 2017

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    You can also check out the BBC's poll tracker here.

  2. Last day to register to vote in the general electionpublished at 09:19 British Summer Time 22 May 2017

    Corinne Wheatley
    BBC Radio Leeds

    The clock's ticking if you want to register to vote in the general election:

    I've been on the streets of Leeds with these volunteers trying to ensure everyone has their chance to put their X in a box including the homeless:

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    The deadline is just before midnight and more information on how to make sure you get your polling cards for 8 June can be found here.

  3. Morning recappublished at 09:10 British Summer Time 22 May 2017

    Here's a quick look at what's on the agenda today:

  4. Graduates would see interest rates on fees cut under Corbynpublished at 09:09 British Summer Time 22 May 2017

    Norman Smith
    Assistant political editor

    This is one of Mr Corbyn's big standout policies. If I had to pick his top three they would be ending austerity, renationalising the railways, and scrapping tuition fees.

    As well as ending fees for all future students, those who've left university would have the interest rate on what they owe hacked back from around 6% to just inflation - around 2.7% now.

    It's a big, meaty policy offering that comes with a big bill - £11bn a year.

  5. Greens: Student debt should be paid for by big businesspublished at 08:54 British Summer Time 22 May 2017

    Today Programme
    BBC Radio 4

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    The Greens' co-leader Jonathan Bartley hails his party's manifesto as a programme for a "confident and caring country".

    It includes a pledge to write off all student debt, telling BBC Radio 4's Today students owe "about £4bn" a year. His questioner disputes that figure, suggesting the total amount is more like £46bn, but Mr Bartley says he doesn't have the overall number to hand.

    He cites the example of his own daughter, who is about to go to university because she wants to be a school teacher, but will "end up with £40,000 worth of debt".

    "We're saddling her with a disadvantage," he argues.

    He says "the money should come from big business" which is "making excess profits". His party would like to see corporation tax "put back up to 28%".

    "This is the kind of country we need to have - not beholden to big corporations."

    He also says Greens would like to reverse the privatisation of the NHS, adding that it all "comes down to political choices".

  6. Pots and kettles? Clegg on Labour fees promisepublished at 08:47 British Summer Time 22 May 2017

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  7. May focuses on Brexit at Welsh Conservative launchpublished at 08:43 British Summer Time 22 May 2017

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    It's head to head in Wales today. As Carwyn Jones launches Welsh Labour's manifesto, Theresa May will be cutting the ribbon on the Welsh Conservatives' offering.

    No details have yet been released, but the Tories are under pressure to commit to some of the projects Labour has already thrown its weight behind, like the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon project.

    Mrs May will tell voters she understands that the "sense of disenchantment is particularly acute here in Wales" which is why "people across Wales chose to ignore the hysterical warnings of Labour, Plaid Cymru and Liberal Democrat politicians in Cardiff Bay, and voted to leave the EU".

    She'll say, as she has again and again, that only she can see that vote through to fruition.

  8. Don't forget to register to vote....published at 08:33 British Summer Time 22 May 2017

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  9. Welsh Labour 'promising partnership with Corbyn government'published at 08:31 British Summer Time 22 May 2017

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    Welsh Labour is promising a "real partnership" with a Labour government in Westminster as it launches its manifesto on Monday.

    The first minister will say Wales needs two Labour governments to ensure the economy works "for everyone".

    The party says it will deliver tidal lagoons, rail electrification and the Wylfa Newydd Nuclear Plant. It also promises to ensure the level of funding Wales currently receives from the EU continues beyond Brexit.

    Welsh Labour has so far been attempting to run a largely separate election campaign, fronted by First Minister Carwyn Jones rather than UK leader Jeremy Corbyn.

    At a launch for the campaign in Cardiff two weeks ago, Mr Jones made no reference to Mr Corbyn.

  10. Student fees promise 'helping some of the richest'published at 08:24 British Summer Time 22 May 2017

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  11. EU referendum was 'grotesquely unfair'published at 08:23 British Summer Time 22 May 2017

    Today Programme
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    Turning the conversation back to Brexit, Nick Clegg asks "what mature democracy tells millions of people, 'You've told us overwhelmingly you want this future'" - to remain part of the EU and then just "ignores" them.

    "The referendum was a grotesquely unfair act of intergenerational theft," he says.

  12. Nick Clegg: Scrapping tuition fees is 'wrong choice now'published at 08:21 British Summer Time 22 May 2017

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    Former Lib Dem deputy prime minister Nick Clegg says the political system is designed to put people off - because elections often take place on a "wet Thursday" and involve using "a stubby pencil" to put a cross in a box.

    "We don't actually address the big issues that affect people," he tells BBC Radio 4's Today.

    Turning to his party's about-turn on scrapping tuition fees after the 2010 election, Mr Clegg concedes: "There was a collision and I was very much part of that."

    He accuses Labour, which is now proposing to scrap fees, of "promising lots and lots of goodies", saying this is the "wrong choice now".

    He says when people are in government "reality collides" with what politicians want to do.

  13. Listen: 'I never vote - travellers won't do it'published at 08:15 British Summer Time 22 May 2017

    Today Programme
    BBC Radio 4

    There are more than 63,000 gypsies in Britain but as the country's smallest ethnic minority it remains stubbornly difficult to get them interested in voting at elections. The Labour Party promises an end to discrimination and the right to a "nomadic" way of life.

    Political journalist Elinor Goodman spoke to travellers at a horse fair in Hampshire. Rosalind MacDona, from Operation Traveller Vote, says that politicians are only focused on improving conditions for settled travellers in the countryside, as opposed to gypsies and mobile travellers.

  14. Sinn Fein wants EU special status for Northern Irelandpublished at 08:09 British Summer Time 22 May 2017

    Today Programme
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    Former Sinn Fein minister John O'Dowd has been explaining his party's call for an EU-designated special status for Northern Ireland.

    He says Sinn Fein is seeking an "imaginative" solution from the EU and the UK post the referendum "because our society is coming out of conflict".

    Arguing that the EU "played a role in bringing that conflict to an end", Mr O'Dowd tells BBC Radio 4's Today programme that his party would like to see continued representation in the European Parliament post-Brexit.

    Currently ministers in the north-south ministerial joint council between the Northern Ireland assembly and the Irish Parliament are still able to access council meetings.

    He says he would also like to see access to European funding "that's been strategic in developing the peace process in terms of communities and infrastructure around our society".

  15. Tories buying ads against 'dementia tax' searchespublished at 08:04 British Summer Time 22 May 2017

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  16. Listen: Young people should not be 'saddled with debt'published at 08:02 British Summer Time 22 May 2017

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    Angela Rayner sets out Labour's plan to abolish university tuition fees

  17. Conservatives need to shift 'dementia tax' tagpublished at 08:01 British Summer Time 22 May 2017

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  18. Pic: The Welsh Labour manifesto - ahead of official launchpublished at 07:57 British Summer Time 22 May 2017

    Welsh Labour manifestoImage source, PA

  19. The general election's most remote voterspublished at 07:55 British Summer Time 22 May 2017

    You don't have to live in the UK to vote in the general election - as these far-flung voters prove.

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  20. The Greens want us all to work lesspublished at 07:48 British Summer Time 22 May 2017

    BBC Breakfast

    One of the Greens' most eye-catching policies is a commitment to a four-day working week for all.

    "We've generated more wealth than we've ever had before, seen all this technological advance, but people haven't seen the benefit," says Jonathan Bartley. "People have to work and work and work."

    The party co-leader says "there is enough money" - if there's the "political will" to get it back from big corporations - to allow everyone to work less but earn the same.

    "We can have a society where people spend more time with their friends and family," he argues.

    "We're saying that can be possible, but it's about asking who the economy is really for."