The Green Party has 'not had the money to compete' in Wales, its leader in the country has said.

Plaid Cymru AM Adam Price says 100 years of voting Labour has not worked and left Wales 'defenceless'.

Deputy party leader Angus Robertson says the SNP has a mandate for another independence referendum over Europe.

Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green says £100,000 is "a reasonable inheritance to have".

Reality Check

On ITV’s Peston on Sunday programme this morning, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was asked about the pledge made during the EU referendum by the Leave campaign, that £350m a week was sent to the EU, which could be used to fund the NHS instead.

Why isn’t the £350m, which we are getting back not in the manifesto? Robert Peston asks.

“The only way you’re going to take back control…” Boris Johnson begins.

“Why is it not in the manifesto?” Robert Peston interjects.

“It is actually and Theresa May, she said it at the launch of our manifesto,” says Boris Johnson. “She said the only way to take back control…she said we’re going to take back control…” he continues, before Robert Peston interrupts, and the conversation moves on.

So, does the Conservative manifesto, external contain any details about this pledge?

The £350m figure is not mentioned specifically, no.

The manifesto promises £8bn a year extra for the NHS in England by 2022-23.

The manifesto also refers to a proposal for a shared prosperity fund.

It says: “We will use the structural fund money that comes back to the UK following Brexit to create a United Kingdom Shared Prosperity Fund, specifically designed to reduce inequalities between communities across our four nations. The money that is spent will help deliver sustainable, inclusive growth based on our modern industrial strategy.”

The EU’s structural funds are managed by the Commission and EU countries, and cover areas such as research, digital technologies, and small businesses, external.

And did the prime minister mention the £350m figure at the manifesto launch?

She used the phrase: “So we will leave the European Union and take control of our money…”

But there was no specific mention of £350m a week for the NHS.

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Political reporter

The Conservatives are hoping to win back seats in the North-East of England on 8 June - has the party finally escaped the shadow of Margaret Thatcher which helped make much of the region a no-go area for them?

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Jeremy Corbyn is not the only UK party leader pausing election campaigning in memory of Jo Cox.

Lib Dem leader Tim Farron was observing the hour while attending a community picnic in Kendal.

Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas went to a church project in Brighton which will be involved in the Great Get Together, external from 16 to 18 June, where thousands of community gatherings such as street parties, picnics and coffee mornings will be held across the country.

And a Conservative Party spokesman said the prime minister would pause her campaigning for an hour on Sunday afternoon.

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Political reporter

Elderly voters who own their own homes tend to be fertile ground for Tory support. But a social care plan that would see those people's homes sold off to pay for their care after death - meaning their children couldn't inherit those properties - was always going to be a difficult one to sell to this crucial group of voters.

Today, Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green defended it, saying that £100,000 was a "reasonable amount of inheritance". That's the amount up to which the government would fund a person's care under the plans. But with a lot of properties worth a lot more than that, it has drawn criticism.

Labour has taken the opportunity to make its pitch for the grey vote, promising more social care spending and a cap of £72,000 on how much anyone would need to pay; while the Lib Dems have accused the government of introducing a "dementia tax".

With speculation over whether the cabinet is fully signed up to the Tories' new social care plan, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has been batting away suggestions that the cabinet didn't have a say in a policy that is likely to prove uncomfortable for Tories to sell on the doorstep.

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The Spectator's Isabel Hardman, external says Lib Dem leader Tim Farron is having a "miserable" election, "stuck in an episode of the Moral Maze, endlessly cross-examined about his beliefs on issues such as gay sex and abortion".

The problem, she writes, is not that Mr Farron is illiberal, but that "we live in a society of liberal intolerance, where only certain worldviews are deemed acceptable by people who often refuse to accept that they themselves have a worldview that also deserves interrogating".

In a Facebook post,, external the Labour leader said his visit to the Wah Sing Chinese Community Centre in Liverpool was part of a "period of reflection" in memory of the late Jo Cox.

And he tweeted that he was paying tribute "to those working to unite communities across the UK".

Members of Scottish Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives and the SNP gathered at the Serenity Cafe in Edinburgh to mark a campaign truce in honour of murdered Labour MP Jo Cox.

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Former Tory pensions minister Baroness Altmann told Sky News that plans for a move to a double lock on pensions, from a triple lock, was "absolutely the right move".

"It is really important to protect pensioners. The 2.5% element of the triple lock is illogical. It doesn't make sense.

"By dropping that, you will reduce the estimated long-term costs of paying state pensions, and be able to take some of the pressure off increasing state pension age - and reduce costs for younger generations as well."

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Radio 4 programme

Former Tory cabinet minister Kenneth Clarke is backing his party's plans for social care funding.

Mr Clarke told The World This Weekend on BBC Radio 4 that the plan to make everyone use their total assets - bar £100,000 - to pay for care, even if they remain in their own homes, was a "sensible proposal". And he dismissed newspaper suggestions it amounted to a "dementia tax".

It would be "unfair" he said to ask young tax-payers, who are unable to afford a home of their own, to pay for the care of wealthy homeowners.

Mr Clarke welcomed what he said was a "serious, grown-up" manifesto from his party.

The Independent's chief political commentator,, external John Rentoul, writes that the traditional "wobble", whereby a trailing Labour catches up with the Tories, has come early in this election.

He puts it down to the Conservative plans to withdraw free care visits from pensioners who own their own home.

"This is one of those policies designed by wonks to remove an anomaly that no politician should touch with a barge pole," he writes.

Jeremy Corbyn had a go at playing an Erhu, which is a Chinese violin, during a visit to the Wah Sing Chinese Community centre in Liverpool today. It's unclear whether his efforts were in tune with what voters want to hear.

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On Sky News this morning, Jeremy Corbyn condemned "all bombing" during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, but would not specifically condemn the IRA per se as an organisation.

The Conservatives have now reacted to that, with a statement from Security Minister Ben Wallace: