General election latest: Corbyn and May TV election special

Summary

Reaction to May and Corbyn TV questioning
Labour leader pressed on foreign policy views
May defended changes to social care policy
UKIP's Paul Nuttall interviewed by Andrew Neil

Live Reporting

Angela Harrison and Tom Moseley

No 'simplistic solutions' in tackling extremism - UKIP's Evanspublished at 11:12 British Summer Time 29 May 2017
Victoria Derbyshire
UKIP's deputy leader Suzanne Evans told the Victoria Derbyshire programme that radicalism and extremism had to be confronted on a number of different levels, including employing community policing as a way of keeping an "ear to the ground" - but that many different aspects of policy and policing options had to be used.
Ms Evans said:
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The problem with the debate is that politicians are trying to put forward very simplistic solutions and actually there aren't any... this is something we have to tackle on numerous levels. We have to tackle the security perspective. We have to tackle it in terms of... integrating communities better... and we have to look at immigration as well."
Brexit 'scaremongering must stop' - UKIPpublished at 11:09 British Summer Time 29 May 2017
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Brexit: Chance of a better deal 'near zero' says Lib Dems' Lord Newbypublished at 11:09 British Summer Time 29 May 2017
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Shadow foreign secretary on Brexit: Nobody voted to be poorerpublished at 10:46 British Summer Time 29 May 2017
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Tory candidate asked: Are you purposely losing this election?published at 10:45 British Summer Time 29 May 2017
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'Corbyn negotiating Brexit fills people with terror' claims audience memberpublished at 10:45 British Summer Time 29 May 2017
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'Bad taste' to use terror attacks for political purposespublished at 10:37 British Summer Time 29 May 2017
Victoria Derbyshire
The SNP's John Nicolson, speaking on the Victoria Derbyshire programme this morning, said it was in "extraordinary bad taste" to use last week's terrorist attack in Manchester as a means of criticising opponents in the general election campaign - singling out the Conservatives' Dominic Raab for having done so. Mr Raab had earlier launched an attack on Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn for "cosying up to terrorists" in the recent past.
Mr Nicolson won applause from the audience when he said:
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I think we should stop impugning one another's motives in this debate. It's in extraordinary bad taste. We are in the immediate aftermath of this terrorist attack that has destroyed so many families' lives and all - all of us in this audience - are horrified by it. All of our political leaders are determined to stop terrorism so it seems to me to be in very bad taste for Dominic to try to use this in the way he is doing."
Does the audience want a second EU vote?published at 10:30 British Summer Time 29 May 2017
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Brexit is the next topicpublished at 10:30 British Summer Time 29 May 2017
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UKIP's Suzanne Evans on the foreign aid budget and the NHSpublished at 10:30 British Summer Time 29 May 2017
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Derbyshire Live - on the roadpublished at 10:23 British Summer Time 29 May 2017
The Derbyshire programme is coming live from the Grove Theatre in Dunstable in Bedforshire with a group of 120 members of the public questioning a panel of politicians.
Joining Victoria on the stage of the theatre with the audience are Conservative Dominic Raab, Labour's Emily Thornberry, Lord Dick Newby for the Liberal Democrats, the SNP's John Nicolson and Suzanne Evans of UKIP.
Institute for Fiscal Studies 'pessimistic' on Labour costingspublished at 10:22 British Summer Time 29 May 2017
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Raab claims Corbyn wants to 'cosy up' to terroristspublished at 10:11 British Summer Time 29 May 2017
Victoria Derbyshire
The former Conservative Justice minister Dominic Raab has continued his party's attack on Jeremy Corbyn's record on the IRA and groups involved in armed struggle in the Middle East.
Speaking on the the Victoria Derbyshire programme debate morning Mr Raab cast doubt on the Labour leader's ability to lead the country as Prime Minister in the event of a Labour victory because of his record:
"I do think leadership matters and I put 'll put it as bluntly as I can....I don't think that if you compare the leadership Theresa May offers with Jeremy Corbyn... I don't think the guy who wants to cosy up and befriend terrorists is the right guy to defend us against terrorism."
Responding for Labour, shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry sought to defend Mr Corbyn both on speaking to Irish republicans and on his voting record in Parliament on anti-terrorist measures:
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In the 1980s something had to be done in trying to bring people to the table....The approach Labour takes is is let's look at legislation that works, that doesn't divide communities but brings them together... now if there are things that the security services need by way of legislation then absolutely we should give it to them but don't just do things for the sake of being seen to do things."
Lib Dems propose a penny on income tax for health and social carepublished at 10:01 British Summer Time 29 May 2017
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Next debate topic: the NHSpublished at 09:54 British Summer Time 29 May 2017
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Conservative candidate pressed on police cutspublished at 09:42 British Summer Time 29 May 2017
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Audience member praises Corbyn's contribution to NI peace processpublished at 09:42 British Summer Time 29 May 2017
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Conservative accuses Corbyn of wanting to be 'friends with terrorists'published at 09:42 British Summer Time 29 May 2017
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The Victoria Derbyshire show is holding a live election debate.
The first topic on the agenda is security - and former Conservative minister Dominic Raab accuses Labour leader Jeremy Coryn of having "had a political lifetime of supporting the IRA".
Nick Robinson's Election Takeawaypublished at 09:29 British Summer Time 29 May 2017
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Gwynne defends Abbott and Corbyn - and Labour's anti-terrorism recordpublished at 09:24 British Summer Time 29 May 2017
Today Programme
BBC Radio 4
Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott told the BBC's Andrew Marr on Sunday that she had changed her mind on the IRA since the 1980s - and likened it to changing her hairstyle.
Labour's Andrew Gwynne insisted that Diane Abbott was "absolutely" up to the job of home secretary, if Labour won the election, and her views on the IRA have changed.
The Labour general election co-ordinator told Today that "no Labour government will ever put the security of this nation at risk".
He was also questioned over Jeremy Corbyn "admitting he attended a wreath-laying ceremony at the grave of a Palestinian terrorist involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre" before he became Labour leader, as the Telegraph, external has reported.
Mr Gwynne says the visit was as "part of a parliamentary delegation". Mr Corbyn supports peace in the Middle East and Labour backs a two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he adds.