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UKIP leader Paul Nuttall is in the chair now. Asked what the point is now of his party, he says there's "clear water" between it and all the others - for example, on foreign aid, and of course, Brexit.

He acknowledges the recent local elections - at which UKIP took a drubbing - were tough, but he predicts that in the years ahead "UKIP could be bigger than it has ever been" once the UK gets into the meat of the Brexit process.

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Brendan Cox says his children are "incredibly excited" about planning the Great Get Together - a series of community events to be held on the anniversary of her mother's death.

They know their mother would have loved it, he adds.

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Brendan Cox, widower of murdered MP Jo, is telling Andrew Marr about the truce - an hour's break in campaigning - being held today in her honour.

"Election campaigns are necessarily divisive..." he says. "But all of the political leaders are saying "there's more that unites us than divides us."

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They're reviewing the papers on the Andrew Marr show and Daily Mail columnist Amanda Platell says it's been "a very wobbly weekend for Theresa May".

Jeremy Corbyn must have thought "alleluia" when he heard her controversial social care plans, she says, adding that the big question is, was this a mistake, or did she think, 'I can afford to do this and I want to because it's what I believe in'?

Guardian journalist Paul Mason says millions of families across the country are now worrying whether their asset wealth - their home - is now, at a stroke, at risk because of Mrs May's plans.

He says whatever you think of them, "Cameron and Obsorne did try to spread the load", making everyone pay for things like care, but he adds: "This basically says to everyone: 'You're on your own.'"

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Despite that apparent poll bounce, Atul Hatwal, editor of website Labour Uncut, is still very pessimistic, predicting "a parliamentary wipe-out"., external

"The defeat will be greater than 1983 with the leading figures such as Tom Watson, Dennis Skinner and Caroline Flint facing defeat while many others, including Yvette Cooper, Ed Miliband and Angela Rayner, are teetering on the brink.

"Currently Labour is set to lose just over 90 seats but a relatively small deterioration of the party’s position on the ground could see dozens more fall."

He says Uncut has come to those conclusions following new analysis "based on the views of dozens of Labour candidates, party officials and activists".

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Four opinion polls for Sunday newspapers suggest that while the Conservatives retain a big lead, support for Labour has increased over recent weeks.

They put Labour at between 35% and 33%, up significantly on the scores of as low as 26% early in the campaign.

Although the figures would still deliver a comfortable majority for Theresa May if borne out 8 June, they are music to the ears of Jeremy Corbyn's supporters who believe he is making a dent in her support, especially among older voters upset at Tory plans.

A result on these lines would also put Mr Corbyn comfortably above the 30.4% vote share achieved by Ed Miliband in 2015 - a threshold some see as the minimum he would need to stay on as leader after the election.

The BBC is keeping an eye on all the polls via our official Poll Tracker - check it out here.

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In 1995, Tony Blair changed the constitution of the Labour Party, shifting it away from old commitments to socialism to a New Labour stance accepting the benefits of the market and privatisation.

Commentator Dan Hodges, writing in the Mail on Sunday,, external thinks we've seen the equivalent this week from Theresa May.

"The strategy of hiding her from voters and the press is born of necessity, not opportunity," he writes. "But by God, she is brave."

"Blair’s Clause IV moment was the product of the electoral need to convince the British people his party really had changed. May was under no such obligation.

"She could, as many predicted, have played it safe. Hid behind her ‘strong and stable’ mantra, pledged to deliver a hard-Brexit, and harvested up the votes."

Instead, he says, "she has opted to throw down the gauntlet to her party and the voters."

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We've got the political programmes coming up: Andrew Marr on BBC1 at 9am; Pienaar's Politics on BBC Radio 5live and Peston on Sunday on ITV at 10am; and Sunday Politics on BBC1 at 11am.

Elsewhere in the diary today:

• Jeremy Corbyn is due to visit a Liverpool arts centre
• Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron is to attend a community picnic in Kendal
• Co-leader of the Green Party Caroline Lucas will visit a church project in Brighton
• Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale will be joined by representatives from the Lib Dems, Conservatives and SNP for an event to mark the campaign truce in memory of Jo Cox
• Later, Scottish political leaders will square off in a BBC TV debate

The Conservatives are accusing Labour of running a "scare campaign" designed to frighten pensioners.

Their counter-attack, though, is also aimed squarely at older voters worried about what the future holds, specifically when it comes to inheritance tax.

The Tories say Labour plans to halve thresholds to £425,000 would hit 3.9 million households in the UK and could affect a further million within five years given likely increases in house prices.

They even appear to be rebranding inheritance tax as "family homes tax" with the intention, presumably, of making it feel like an issue for all of us, not just the wealthy.

"People who have worked hard all their lives, saved and improved their homes will now be hit with this punishing family homes tax," the chancellor says.

Labour is positioning itself today as the protector of pensioners from what it says are "attacks" being planned by the Conservatives. Reacting to what he sees as disquiet among traditional Tory voters, Jeremy Corbyn is making a five-pronged pledge:

• Secure pensioner incomes with the triple-lock on state pensions
• Protect the Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes for pensioners
• An extra £45 billion for the NHS and social care
• No rise in the state pension age beyond 66
• Justice for women born in the 1950s hit by five-year rise in pension age - the so-called Waspi women

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Polling day is less than three weeks away, but the election campaign will be put on hold later as politicians set aside their differences to remember Labour MP Jo Cox.

Theresa May, Jeremy Corbyn and other party leaders will stop campaigning for an hour to honour the mother-of-two who was murdered last June.

Her widower Brendan Cox said it would "send a powerful message" ahead of the first anniversary of her death.

Good morning and welcome back to live coverage of the general election campaign. Sunday is always a busy day in politics and today is no exception. Labour is on the attack over Tory plans on social care and winter fuel payments- and we'll hear from shadow chancellor John McDonnell on the Andrew Marr programme later.

The Conservatives, meanwhile, are hitting back at Labour plans to change the rules on inheritance tax. Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green will lead the charge on Marr.

As mentioned earlier, the Sunday Times leads on an opinion poll by YouGov which suggests the Conservatives' lead over Labour has been halved in the space of a week to nine points.

Also on the front page is a suggestion by the Brexit Secretary David Davis, who has given an interview to the newspaper, that the UK will walk away from withdrawal negotiations if the EU demands an upfront "divorce settlement" of 100bn euros, as has been mooted.

The Mail on Sunday links several polls showing a reduced lead for the Conservatives to plans in last week's manifesto which could see families having to pay more to care for loved ones with dementia at home.

It suggests that Theresa May's hopes of a landslide victory on 8 June have hit a setback but point out that she still has a clear lead in the polls and strong personal ratings.