Sky News

Former justice minister Dominic Raab has dismissed a suggestion in today's Mail on Sunday that Tory plans to change the rules governing payment for social care amount to a "dementia tax".Speaking on Sky News to Sophy Ridge, Mr Raab said his party was "presenting grown-up choices". Tory plans for payments to take account of property ownership - even when care was being given at home - represented a "responsible, financially solvent approach".

"We've said if you can afford to pay for your own care you ought to contribute to it but you'll never be in a position where you can't hand over and pass on a hundred thousand pounds to your family."

"No-one else," he said, "has come up with a credible, financially solvent proposal".

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Do you want to see more or less immigration, Jeremy Corbyn is asked on Sky News.

He says he wants to see "a fair immigration system based on the needs of our society".

"That is a proper way of approaching it."

Interviewer Sophy Ridge pushes the Labour leader several times.

"I cannot get into numbers games because I don't think it works."

She suggests he could give a direction of travel at least, to which he answers: "It will probably be lower but I don't want to get into making predictions."

Sky News

Jeremy Corbyn has been talking to Sky News' Sophy Ridge. Asked about whether Labour will remove the freeze on benefits, like John McDonnell said earlier on Andrew Marr, he doesn't say yes directly, but lists the money set aside to deal with the effects of Tory changes to welfare.

Pushed again, he does go further: "Yes, the freeze would be ended because it's very, very unfair."

But where is the money coming from? Mr Corbyn says there's money set aside "as a start" and it would be looked at again.

Andrew Marr tries to intervene as Labour and Conservatives clash over manifesto pledges.

ITV

The environment is "the missing issue of the election", says Caroline Lucas.

The Green manifesto pledges to create an environmental protection act to enshrine in British law all the measures currently rooted in the EU.

She says the Tories might be promising a great repeal bill to bring EU law into the UK statute books, but they're offering no mechanism for enforcement without bodies like the European Court to oversee it.

"We're saying there needs to be a whole legal architecture," Ms Lucas goes on, that allows the UK to enforce standards on things like air pollution and clean beaches.

She says she was shocked to see so little about the "air pollution emergency" in the Conservative manifesto.

BBC Radio 5 live

Former Tory cabinet minster Sir Malcolm Rifkind has defended his party's plans for changing the payment rules on social care.

Challenged on Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics over Tory plans to include the value of property, even when care was given at home, Sir Malcolm said it was "sensible to look at overall assets".

The crucial point, he believes, is that the guaranteed sum that could be bequeathed has gone up to £100,000.

Sir Malcolm welcomed what he suggested was one of the most candid governing party manifestos in many years.

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Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas says Labour have "not only given the Tories a blank cheque on Brexit... they're helping them cash it in".

She defends her policy of offering a second referendum on Brexit, saying you'd get more chance to look at the small print of a phone contract than on the UK's plans to leave the EU.

ITV

Robert Peston asks why the £350m for the NHS - promised by Leave campaigners, including Boris Johnson, during the referendum - is not in the Tories' manifesto?

"It is!" says Boris Johnson. He attempts to say something about "the only way to take back control..." but doesn't get to finish.

"No, it's not, I was there when it was launched," replies Robert Peston incredulously.

Do you like being bossed around and told to worship at the altar of Theresa May, Peston asks.

"Yes," replies the foreign secretary as definitively as he can.

BBC Radio 5 live

Speaking on Radio 5 Live's Pienaar's Politics, the former SNP leader, Alex Salmond, said the election battle in Scotland was now a battle between his party and the Tories.

The election had been called, he believes, because Theresa May wanted to exploit a weakened Labour party to "hammer through a hard Brexit".

But that plan was now being knocked off course by a Tory manifesto containing what Mr Salmond called a "whole range of poison pills".

ITV

"I certainly think we need to get immigration down," says Boris Johnson. He says there needs to be a target and tens of thousands is "perfectly sensible". He says he won't try to put a date on when it could be met, though.

Again, the foreign secretary brings it back to a question of Theresa May vs Jeremy Corbyn. The latter, he says, is "opposed to the whole shebang", meaning the whole idea of controlling immigration full stop.

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"Nobody will face the terror of being forced to sell their home while they're alive," says Boris Johnson.

He says the "broad thrust" of the policy is right, but agrees with Nicholas Soames that the detail will be consulted on and worked out.

"This is a responsible, grown-up Conservative approach," to a massive problem, he adds.

ITV

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson tells Robert Peston he agrees the social care policy is "necessary" and it shows that Theresa May is prepared to do tough things.

He tries to bring it back to Brexit and says the election is all about leadership.

"The way that Theresa May has handled this is a mark of her character," he adds.

"I am genuinely alarmed it [Brexit] could be handled by Jeremy Corbyn."

Was the cabinet consulted on the social care policy?

The foreign secretary says "there were all kinds of consultations with cabinet on policy" and "you wouldn't expect me to go into all of them".

ITV

"The option to do nothing doesn't exist," Tory candidate Nicholas Soames tells Peston on Sunday.

"It's a start, there's a long way to go to get it right and of course, people are going to be anxious because it's a big change."

Nicholas Soames says older people realise they've "been well treated" and young people need help.

Labour MP Jess Philips says elderly people on the doorsteps tell her they feel a burden.

The Andrew Marr Show

"Don't make this up, don't make this up," John McDonnell says angrily to Damian Green as the minister criticises the cost of Labour's plans to renationalise key industries.

"This is fatuous economic talk," McDonnell goes on, insisting the policy would ultimately pay for itself because these are profitable businesses.

There is much pointing and gesticulating and eventually Andrew Marr has to step in and call a halt.