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Not for the first time in this general election campaign, a politician was asked for a number, and didn't know it. When that happens, should the politician feel embarrassed - or the journalist, for asking about specific numbers rather than policy? That's the question being posed by the BBC's PM programme.

Not a great deal of sympathy for Jeremy Corbyn - and others before him - from the two pundits discussing the issue.

Jeremy Corbyn's Woman's Hour interview this morning continues to receive a lot of attention online, with reaction from the main news outlets and on Twitter.

"Car crash" is a common description of Mr Corbyn being quizzed about proposals for free childcare for all two- to four-year-olds.

The Daily Telegraph uses the term prominently, external and also says Mr Corbyn angered users of Mumsnet later, leaving an interview "too early". All in all, says the Telegraph, a "disastrous day's campaigning".

The Sun headline reads Another Labour car crash, external, saying "Jeremy Corbyn was left humiliated this morning after being caught 'logging onto his iPad' to check his figures. The Labour leader had forgotten how much his party's flagship childcare policy will cost in an excruciating exchange on BBC Radio 4."

The Guardian goes for a gentler description:, external "Corbyn unable to give cost of childcare pledge in interview. Labour leader repeatedly struggles to answer question on Woman's Hour about budget for universal childcare."

And the Independent says the Woman's Hour interview , externalhad "undone all of his good campaign work" so far. Diane Abbott's LBC interview on police numbers should have acted as "salutary lesson" for the Labour leader, says the paper's political editor Andrew Grice.

But there are some crumbs of comfort for Mr Corbyn online - some brisk Twitter traffic under the #womanshour hashtag, with one supporter saying pointedly: "There's a huge difference between having a figure and not knowing it off the top of your head, and not having a figure."

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European media commentators see little good news for Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May after her performance in "The Battle for Number 10" programme on Sky News and Channel 4, where she was interviewed along with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

France's centre-right Le Figaro, external, like most papers, highlights the two leaders' positions on Britain's exit from the EU, with Mrs May "ready for Brexit without any agreement" if the EU proposes unacceptable terms, and Mr Corbyn insisting that Labour would reach an agreement.

The left-wing French daily Liberation, external assigned special correspondent Aude Massiot to follow the "non-debate", and she is scathing about Mrs May's refusal to entertain a direct debate with Mr Corbyn, "which the Conservative favourite in the election considers too risky".

For Enrico Franceschini of Italy's centre-left La Repubblica, external, Jeremy Corbyn won the televised stand-off. "He was more effective, and had his answers ready," whereas Theresa May "defended her Brexit policy, but was not on the ball".

Carlos Fresneda of Spain's centre-right El Mundo, external says Sir Lynton Crosby, the previous prime minister David Cameron's election strategist, has been drafted in with a "ten-day plan to save the campaign". Unusually among European commentators, he makes the point that Theresa May is still comfortably ahead of Jeremy Corbyn in terms of her personal rating and her ability to "keep Britain safe".

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Labour's Dawn Butler, appearing alongside Jeremy Corbyn in Watford, argued there'd been too much focus on figures.

Ms Butler said: "I do think that sometimes it's ridiculous that everything is about... at the end of the day, John McDonnell has costed the Labour Party's manifesto, the Conservative Party hasn't.

"So if you want to crunch numbers, speak to the numbers man, let's talk about the policies in the Labour Party manifesto."

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Brendan O'Neill writes in the Spectator, external: "Who came off worse in The Battle for Number 10, last night’s Channel 4 / Sky stand-off between Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn? It was Jeremy Paxman."

He argues that the former Newsnight presenter relies on "bellowing at politicians" to hold them to account, whereas "it can have the opposite effect - it can diminish the serious, intelligent discussion of things".

The World at One
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The Scottish National Party has launched its manifesto, with a call for another referendum in Scotland,once the Brexit negotiations have finished, and for an increase in UK taxes to promote growth in Scotland.

Tommy Sheppard was an SNP MP for Edinburgh East in the last parliament. He told The World at One another vote would be needed when the terms of Brexit are known - not out of disrespect to the first result but because "the terms have completely changed to compromise the options that were then available".

He was challenged as to why they had not raised taxes in Scotland under existing powers, in order to promote growth in the Scottish economy - he said those powers were in the "margins" and "unless they had power over the whole economy, it doesn't make sense to use those powers in isolation".

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The Labour leader appeared to struggle to recall the costs of Labour's childcare policies when he was interviewed on Radio 4's Woman's Hour programme.

Later on the Daily Politics show, shadow international development minister Barry Gardiner listened back to the interview and could give the figures, before he then challenged Conservative Michael Gove on costing of some of his party's policies.

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There has been "no change" on SNP plans for a second independence referendum, says the party's deputy leader.

Angus Robertson said it had won an election giving a "democratic mandate" for such a vote, but it would wait for the outcome of Brexit negotiations, and there had been no change.

He was speaking to Jo Coburn as the party launched its general election manifesto in Perth.

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In an interview with the BBC's Sarah Smith, Nicola Sturgeon has said she was "horrified" that Theresa May stated again that no Brexit deal was better than a bad deal, during Monday's live TV debate.

The SNP leader said walking away without a Brexit deal "would be devastating" and could put thousands of jobs at risk.

Campaigning earlier, Mrs May said Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's decision to rule out walking out of Brexit talks without a deal "means being willing to accept any deal, however bad, signing up to any bill, however vast, accepting any terms, however unreasonable".

More from the Corbyn event, where the Labour leader is questioned about reports of online abuse directed at the BBC Woman's Hour interviewer who did the ill-fated interview in which he stumbled over the cost of Labour's child care policy.

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Barry Gardiner, the shadow international trade secretary, takes The World at One to task for leading on Jeremy Corbyn's struggle to put a cost on Labour's plan for free childcare.

Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire has said that people who vote for nationalist and republican parties do not "necessarily" want to see Northern Ireland become part of a united Ireland.

Launching the Conservative manifesto for Northern Ireland, Mr Brokenshire said that the conditions for calling a referendum or "border poll" were "not remotely satisfied". The constitutional question there has gained more public prominence following the referendum to leave the EU, a referendum in which Northern Ireland voted narrowly to remain - with a vote of 56% in favour.

But today, Mr Brokenshire said: "The support for Northern Ireland remaining a core part of the United Kingdom remains very firmly there."

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