Summary

  • Leaders clashed on Brexit and public services in seven-way debate

  • Rivals attacked Theresa May for not taking part in debate

  • PM to urge voters to help her 'fulfil promise of Brexit'

  • Tim Farron in Andrew Neil interview on BBC One

  • Greens' co-leader Jonathan Bartley on Jeremy Vine show

  1. BBC confirms Corbyn to take part in election debatepublished at 12:21 British Summer Time 31 May 2017

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  2. Reaction to Corbyn BBC debate newspublished at 12:17 British Summer Time 31 May 2017

    Correspondents react to news he is set to turn up after all:

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  3. Breakfast doesn't mean breakfast - Lib Demspublished at 12:15 British Summer Time 31 May 2017

    Half a boiled egg, one slice of bread with 12 baked beans or 37.5 cornflakes.

    That's what the Lib Dems claim the Tories' budget of 7p per pupil to provide breakfasts for a schoolchildren would actually mean.

    Former deputy PM Nick Clegg - who was a driving force behind the introduction of free lunches for all primary schools - says Theresa May's decision to abandon that in favour of the breakfast policy is "cynical".

    "It's clear that the reintroduction of means-testing for school lunches will mean many children losing out on what could be the only hot, nutritious meal that they receive each day," he told a rally this morning.

    "Theresa May is not only risking the health of some of our youngest children, but she will also create terrible inequality in the classroom."

    Lib Dem eventImage source, Pa
  4. Corbyn 'to take part in tonight's TV debate'published at 12:11 British Summer Time 31 May 2017
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    Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is set to announce he will take part in tonight's live TV general election debate, according to Press Association sources.

  5. Mother welcomes bereavement pledgespublished at 12:03 British Summer Time 31 May 2017

    The Conservatives and Labour have promised to introduce bereavement leave if elected.

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  6. Labour hoping to overturn Tory majority in Readingpublished at 12:00 British Summer Time 31 May 2017

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  7. Pic: Corbyn restates commitment to free school meal for allpublished at 11:59 British Summer Time 31 May 2017

    Labour leader tells crowd 'hungry children find it hard to learn'

    Jeremy Corbyn
  8. 'I will stop SNP dragging us to indyref2'published at 11:57 British Summer Time 31 May 2017

    The leader of the Scottish Conservative Party Ruth Davidson says she is the person to stop the SNP "dragging us to another referendum".

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  9. Jeremy Corbyn giving stump speech in Readingpublished at 11:56 British Summer Time 31 May 2017

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  10. Coming up: Historian and academic Lord Hennessypublished at 11:53 British Summer Time 31 May 2017

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  11. Greens would abolish 'narrow' SATS that co-leader passespublished at 11:33 British Summer Time 31 May 2017

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    More from Green Party co-leader Jonathan Bartley, who took a SATs test.

    The Greens would abolish the exams that are taken by primary school children.

    Receiving his results during a photo opportunity, he criticises the tests, which he says focus on maths and English - but do not take account of the "full rounded education that we want to produce, and all the range of skills and abilities".

    He says "this very narrow constant testing year after year" doesn't enable the talents of children to be recognised, nurtured and allowed to flourish.

  12. Core messages get hammered home in final days before electionpublished at 11:19 British Summer Time 31 May 2017

    BBC political correspondent Vicki Young says Theresa May is in Somerset where she will be continuing to keep up the pressure on Labour and talk about Brexit - and who should carry out those key negotiations.

    The Conservatives think the Labour message is weak on immigration, especially as Jeremy Corbyn will not put a number on the limit, Vicki says.

    Over in Westminster, BBC assistant political editor Normal Smith says at this stage of the campaign, with just over a week to go until the election, both parties are reiterating their core issues rather than announcing new policies.

    For Labour the message is about health and social care, he says. He adds that neither party is giving a definitive position on the end to freedom of movement post-Brexit.

  13. Dugdale: 'Labour is opposed to indyref2'published at 11:01 British Summer Time 31 May 2017

    The leader of Scottish Labour says the UK party is united in its opposition to a second independence referendum.

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  14. Caroline Lucas on talks with so-called ISpublished at 10:53 British Summer Time 31 May 2017

    Victoria Derbyshire

    The Greens' Caroline Lucas says she would support talks being held with so-called Islamic State - also known as ISIS - because "talking is normally what finally gets solutions".

    The party's co-leader, speaking in an interview recorded before the Manchester bombing, says this is what resulted in peace in Northern Ireland, although she added:

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    Right now it's quite hard to think who your interlocutor is from ISIS - so yes to talks, but not being naive to think that ISIS is going to nominate someone to come and have a chat."

  15. Caroline Lucas: We're not getting as much traction as I hopedpublished at 10:48 British Summer Time 31 May 2017

    Victoria Derbyshire

    Caroline Lucas

    The Greens co-leader Caroline Lucas concedes her party is not making the headway she had hoped on environmental issues.

    Speaking in a van-share with BBC's Victoria Derbyshire, the Greens' only MP admits: "We haven't done nearly as well as we needed to do."

    She said her party held a recent campaign event and even though some journalists and TV cameras attended, very little was reported from it.

    She says a debate needs to be made about the future, adding "it feels to me as if the whole of political debate is being stifled".

    "We're not going to be next government," she says, but hopes to be joined in the Commons by a few more MPs to debate issues such as "how do we cope with future where far fewer people are going to have 9-5 jobs?"

    "Voters will be really pleased to know somebody is thinking about the future and the world of work," she adds.

  16. More on the SNP's indyref2 wordingpublished at 10:47 British Summer Time 31 May 2017

    Just in case you can't see the pictures attached to Jamie Ross's tweets comparing the two wordings from the SNP...

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    The wording in March

    SNP manifestoImage source, SNP/Twitter
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    And in the manifesto

  17. A change of wording from the SNP on indyref2?published at 10:41 British Summer Time 31 May 2017

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  18. Guess which former Labour leader isn't so keen on polls?published at 10:34 British Summer Time 31 May 2017

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  19. Pics: Green co-leader gets his Sats resultpublished at 10:30 British Summer Time 31 May 2017

    Jonathan Bartley took the test his party says is a "burden" on children

    Jonathan BartleyImage source, PA
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  20. Theresa May: I care about Brits living in the EUpublished at 10:24 British Summer Time 31 May 2017

    Theresa May visits fisheryImage source, AFP/Getty

    During a visit to Plymouth, Theresa May was also asked whether she had underestimated the amount of money the NHS needs in the next five years.

    The question came in light of a report by the Nuffield Trust warning that if pensioners living in Europe aren't guaranteed the right to stay and access free healthcare after Brexit and they come back to live in the UK, it could cost the NHS £1bn.

    Mrs May said she had been been clear since "day one as prime minister" that she has "a care for British people living in the EU" - but that this must be a reciprocal agreement with regards to EU citizens living here in the UK.

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    I want to see reciprocal arrangements so their rights are protected and we can look after them. As British prime minister, I have a care for British people living in the EU."