For a fresh look at the election, where better to go than first-time voters? A Guardian article, external interviews seven people, aged between 18 and 62, voting for different parties or still undecided.

"Whatever I vote now will affect me in five years: when I’m in my mid-20s and can get a mortgage," says one Tory voter.

"I’m more engaged now," says another interviewee, still making his mind up between the Liberal Democrats and Labour. "Brexit was scary, Donald Trump was super-scary, we dodged a bullet in France, but we don’t know what’s going to happen in a few years."

Comedian David Schneider sees the election as a game of reds and blues after today's game.

On FA Cup final day, Jeremy Corbyn is cheekily quoting the late Harold Wilson's quip that England only wins the World Cup under a Labour government.

Of course, anyone reading the omens for Russia next year should bear in mind that 1966 was a one-off.

It wasn't just Nicola Sturgeon out canvassing in Scotland today. In Perth, Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson said the SNP should take a second independence referendum off the table.

Ex-Labour leader Gordon Brown branded the Tories and SNP as "collaborators" in rising child poverty.

And Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie, who roped some alpacas into his campaign, promised to "stand against the political dividers of our time", as he hit out at the SNP and the Conservatives.

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The long-time Arsenal fan took the afternoon off campaigning to see his team win the FA Cup final 2-1 against London rivals Chelsea, despite being the underdogs.

The Opinium and Comres opinion polls are both good news and bad for the Tories. On the one hand, they suggest a lead over Labour of 10 and 12 points respectively - not the mere five points suggested by a YouGov poll just yesterday.

But a week ago, Opinium were giving the Tories a lead of 13 points and a fortnight back, Comres gave them 18, so the race is definitely tightening.

Furthermore, the Press Association notes, Mrs May's Opinium approval ratings slumped from plus-17 to plus-11 over the past week while Mr Corbyn's rose from minus-18 to minus-11.

But the ComRes poll found Mrs May was rated best leader to keep Britain safe from terrorism, by a margin of 42% to 16% for Mr Corbyn.

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Liar Liar, a song by Captain Ska attacking Theresa May, is currently number 24 on the UK iTunes charts, external. Labour supporters are trying to get it to number one. Freelance journalist Paul Mason is clearly a fan.

We don't have the methodology yet but Buzzfeed UK's Jim Waterson has tweeted the other parties' rankings.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has spoken of her intention to focus policies on young people when the party finally publishes its manifesto next week. The launch of the document was put on hold in the wake of the Manchester terror attack.

Campaigning on the outskirts of Glasgow today Ms Sturgeon said it was important to put the young at the centre of the party's policies: "Young people are our future - the most valuable resource that we have - and it's important that we create the best opportunities for them to get ahead in life and to achieve their potential."

She said the manifesto would commit the SNP to investing in education, the removal of Child Tax Credits clauses, the restoration of housing support for 18 to 21-year olds across the UK and lowering the voting age to 16 in all elections:

"On June 8, young people have a huge amount at stake. The SNP will always stand up for them, for their future and for their right to have their voice heard."

More bad news for Labour after recent opinion polls suggested they had narrowed the gap with the Tories. A ComRes opinion poll quoted just now by Reuters gives the Tories 46% to 34% for Labour.

ComRes interviewed 2,024 voters online.

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has said it is wrong to link foreign policy to terrorism.

He was speaking in Cumbria after Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called for a less interventionist British foreign policy to reduce the risk of terrorism, in the aftermath of the Manchester bombing.

The UKIP leader Paul Nuttall says that his party is prepared to put the issue of fox hunting to a referendum if there is public demand.

Questioned on the issue by a local busker during campaigning in Lincolnshire this afternoon, Mr Nuttall said: "If the countryside or people in the countryside want a referendum on the issue, that's what UKIP's policies have always been - local referendums."

The issue of fox hunting returned to the political agenda two weeks ago after being raised in the campaign by Theresa May. This was followed by a commitment in the Conservative manifesto to a free vote on repealing the present ban on hunting with hounds.

Today Mr Nuttall said: "All I'd do - and UKIP's policy has always been, it's in the manifesto - simply hold local referendums on local issues. Trust the people and not the politicians."

UKIP's manifesto said that national referendums would be held "on the issues gaining the highest numbers of signatures on approved petitions" every two years. The results of these referendums, it said, would be legally binding.

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Former Chancellor George Osborne has said the Conservatives have failed to think through commitments made in their election manifesto.

Mr Osborne, now editor of the London Evening Standard, stood by headlines in the paper critical of Tory pledges on social care and immigration.

He also said Theresa May had moved away from the international liberalism and globalisation pursued by David Cameron.

He was speaking on BBC Radio 4's Political Thinking.

Mr Osborne was critical of the Tory plan, originally included in the party's election manifesto, to pay for social care by taking funds from the recipient's estate after death, down to a cut-off point of £100,000.

The party has since promised to cap the amount taken from an estate, after facing a barrage of criticism.

Mr Osborne said the plans were "were clearly badly thought through, because the prime minister herself decided to rethink them."

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Are the Tories in with a chance in Perth and North Perthshire? The SNP's Pete Wishart won here by 9,641 votes in 2015 but local election results have boosted Conservative hopes, the BBC's Nick Eardley reports.

A new opinion poll by Opinium indicates the Conservatives would win with 45%, ahead of Labour on 35%, Reuters news agency reports.

The online poll of 2,002 people was carried out between 23 and 24 May.

Our own poll of polls suggests a much narrower gap between the two leading parties.

Conservative politician Iain Duncan Smith condemns Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's stance on the IRA.

Tim Farron's dog proved a hit with journalists when they went to interview the Liberal Democrat leader in Cumbria. Jasper the Springer Spaniel hadn't any other dogs to chase but otherwise seemed happy enough.