Launching the UKIP manifesto, Paul Nuttall says the "cancer" of radical Islam must be "cut out".

Nye Davies of Cardiff University's Wales Governance Centre assesses Plaid Cymru's campaign for the general election.

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The "only people to blame" for the Manchester bomb attack were those who plotted and carried out the atrocity said UKIP's deputy chairman, after suggesting Theresa May had "some responsibility" for the attack.

Suzanne Evans said the UK's borders had been "deliberately opened" to people whose way of life was "fundamentally incompatible with ours" and it was time for a new approach.

She was speaking to Daily Politics presenter Andrew Neil, and former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, just after Paul Nuttall unveiled UKIP's general election manifesto.

She said: "I think that we have had successive Labour and Conservative governments who have failed to put the security of our nation and the safety of the British people first and I think that is the first job of any government."

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The election is back. But the events in Manchester have changed the canvas for now.

Nowhere more so than at UKIP's manifesto launch on Thursday where UKIP's leader, Paul Nuttall, and Suzanne Evans, who prepared the party's programme, both slammed Theresa May's record as home secretary, suggesting she and other politicians bear some of the responsibility for the attack, by creating circumstances where, they claim, extremism has been allowed to flourish.

In blunt terms, Mr Nuttall said "lighting candles is not enough" - vowing that UKIP would introduce thousands of new military personnel, police and border guards.

When asked by journalists if he was trying to exploit current events, he denied it. Party members even heckled and jeered journalists for asking them the question.

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The increase in emigration is an "alarming sign" for companies, according to Seamus Nevin, from the Institute of Directors.

Stephen Clarke, of the Resolution Foundation think tank, said:

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Almost 1,000 troops have been deployed on UK streets after the terror threat level was raised to the highest level, critical, following the Manchester bombing, suggesting an attack may be imminent.

Steve White, chair of the Police Federation in England and Wales, said this releases police officers for other duties.

He told Daily Politics presenter Andrew Neil: "Armed police officers being deployed are not going to prevent further attacks, they are going to be able to respond to the attack."

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The 2017 manifestos are scrutinised for what they offer on counter-terrorism and preventing further terror attacks.

Daily Politics presenter Andrew Neil looked at the policies before getting a reaction from Dean Godson, director of the centre-right think tank Policy Exchange, and Raffaello Pantucci from the security think tank, the Royal United Services Institute.

More detail on the latest report on donations to political parties.

The Electoral Commission's second weekly report, covering the period 10-16 May, reveals a total of £2,489,469 in donations has been reported.

The bulk of those went to the Conservative Party, which received £1,639,108, which is more than four times the £382,925 given to Labour.

Next are the Liberal Democrats with £160,000 and UKIP with £35,000.

The Women's Equality Party, with £18,936, nudged slightly ahead of the Greens, who received £18,500. The remainder of the money went to other parties.

The Electoral Commission's first weekly report showed more than £7m in reported donations.

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The Liberal Democrats have withdrawn a party election broadcast that was due to air on BBC One in England on Thursday evening.

Instead, the party will air a personal and non-political message from leader Tim Farron following the Manchester bombing on Monday.

Mr Farron reflects on his experience of visiting Manchester for the vigil in Albert Square on Tuesday night.

He goes on to talk of his love for Manchester, which he describes as "his capital" having grown up in Lancashire, about the people he met there on Tuesday and the human acts of kindness and solidarity in response to the atrocity.

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UKIP's deputy chairwoman Suzanne Evans tells the World at One the party's pledge to ban full-face veils worn by Muslim women is "not about preventing terrorism, but about sending a message".

She's previously said the veils are symbols of female oppression.

Acting director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, Carlos Vargas-Silva, says achieving the Tories' migration target will be "difficult in practice".

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The BBC has produced a guide to the General Election to answer all the key questions. Find it here.

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Net migration to the UK has fallen to about 248,000 in 2016, down 84,000 from the previous year, according to official estimates from the Office for National Statistics, external (ONS). Net migration is the number of people who have moved to the UK for at least a year minus the number who have left.

The ONS said the fall was due to more people leaving, especially EU citizens, as well as fewer people arriving.

Immigration to the UK is estimated to be 588,000 - 250,000 EU citizens, 264,000 non-EU citizens and 74,000 British citizens.

At the same time, an estimated 339,000 people left the country: 134,000 British, 117,000 EU and 88,000 non-EU citizens.

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The Huffington Post's, external political editor Paul Waugh is reporting that "City bankers and hedge fund bosses have helped the Tories pull in more than four times as much general election funding as Labour".

The Conservatives are said to have received £1.6m in donations for the second week of the campaign, compared with £382,925 for Labour.

Neil Hamilton defends launching a Welsh election manifesto three days after the Manchester attack.

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