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A DUP MP has said the party will not accept an endorsement by an umbrella group backed by loyalist paramilitary organisations.

In a statement, the Loyalist Communities Council (LCC) called for a maximum turnout by unionist voters, and endorsed the UUP's Tom Elliott in Fermanagh and South Tyrone and the DUP's Nigel Dodds in North Belfast, Gavin Robinson in East Belfast and Emma Little Pengelly in South Belfast.

Asked in a televised BBC Northern Ireland leaders' debate if his party would "unequivocally divorce" from the statement, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson replied "yes".

He added: "We don't accept support from anyone who is engaged in paramilitary or criminal activity."

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Shadow attorney general Shami Chakrabarti says Theresa May has announced “nothing new today”.

Responding to Theresa May’s comments that she will change human rights laws if they "get in the way" of tackling suspected terrorists, Ms Chakrabarti said: “She’s been banging on about her dislike for human rights for a very long time.

"That’s not the message that we should be sending to communities or to terrorists today.”

"What we need is more money for policing and for prisons," she added.

The Lib Dem leader says the Tories are not doing enough to protect farmers in Wales - but his party would.

Laura Kuenssberg
BBC political editor

Theresa May has confirmed tonight she'd consider longer prison sentences for terror offences, more stringent rules on deporting those who espouse terror, and new controls on those who are seen as a potential threat even if there is not evidence to take them to court.

Sources suggest if elected on Friday, Theresa May might consider ideas of curfews, controls on who people can visit and suspects' access to communications.

More controversially, she made it plain tonight that if that means the government would have to change the laws on human rights, she is prepared to do so.

Labour has immediately cried foul, claiming another manifesto U-turn, at almost the last minute of the campaign.

Tory sources deny that flatly, saying they would not pull out of the European Convention on Human Rights but instead, seek fresh derogations - essentially legal opt-outs.

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Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has accused Theresa May of "simply posturing", having been prepared to offer up the police for "cut after cut" when she was home secretary.

In an earlier speech, Mrs May said she would change any laws that prevented the police and security services from dealing effectively with the extremist threat.

Mr Farron said that while she was talking tough, her measures would simply lead to a reduction in freedom, not terrorism.

"Theresa May is simply posturing about being tough on terror as she panics that her abysmal record is coming under scrutiny," he said.

"In her years as home secretary she was willing to offer up the police for cut after cut.

"We have been here before - a kind of nuclear arms race in terror laws.

"It might give the appearance of action, but what the security services lack is not more power, but more resources.

"All she would do is reduce freedom, not terrorism."

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Now to Brexit. A ripple of applause for Jonathan Bartley of the Greens, who says the younger generation are being shortchanged enough. They should not miss out on the freedom of movement that his generation were able to enjoy, he says.

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Jobs next. SNP's Kate Forbes says her party's committed to raising the minimum wage in line with living costs so it would be over £10. They want to make sure people have money in their pockets, to keep the economy strong.

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On housing, the Greens' Jonathan Bartley says there are 140 million rooms in this country for 65m people - "we have a broken housing market".

The fault, he says, lies with buy-to-let investors who are driving up prices. There is so much we can do, he says, but the problem is taking on those investors.

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On the question of mental health, the Green party's co-leader Jonathan Bartley said: "We are testing our schoolchildren to death."

He admits to taking a Sats test the other day to see what it's like.

His result? "I got 97%," he says, proudly, but points out the stress of them on children is huge.

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How to keep future healthcare workers from going abroad for jobs?

Lib Dem Brian Paddick says his party is promising to lift the 1% pay cap in the NHS. "We want wages to increase in line with inflation," he says.