Summary

  • Party leaders in last day of campaigning across UK

  • Theresa May says human rights laws will not block terror fight

  • Labour's Lyn Brown to stand in for shadow home secretary Diane Abbott, who is ill

  • Voters go to the polls on Thursday

  1. Cooper queries PM on police numberspublished at 14:58 British Summer Time 5 June 2017

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    In response to a quote from Theresa May that police numbers have "not been cut" since 2015, the Labour chair of the home affairs select committee provides some figures of her own...

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  2. Afternoon catch-uppublished at 14:54 British Summer Time 5 June 2017

    Wondering what's been happening on the campaign trail, three days before the general election? Here's a round-up of today's activities so far...

  3. Watch: Now is not the time for indyref2 - Maypublished at 14:53 British Summer Time 5 June 2017

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  4. Davidson urges voters to send a 'message' to Nicola Sturgeonpublished at 14:41 British Summer Time 5 June 2017

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    Theresa May and Ruth Davidson
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    Theresa May and Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson

    Answering journalists' questions, Theresa May says "now is not the time" for a second Scottish independence referendum.

    During her speech, she said she was a "passionate" supporter of the Union.

    Before that, Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson urged voters to send a message to SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon:

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    You can take your second referendum. We don't want it. We didn't ask for it. We said 'no' and we meant it."

  5. Theresa May 'dogged by questions about cut in police numbers'published at 14:36 British Summer Time 5 June 2017

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    BBC political correspondent Ben Wright says Theresa May is trying to impress on voters and Conservative supporters that this election is not in the bag - that a loss of six seats would lose the party its majority.

    He comments that this is the PM's third visit to Scotland since the election was called, which demonstrates the Conservatives' ambition to reverse the decline of the party in Scotland.

    Ben says Mrs May has put terrorism, along with Brexit, at the heart of her campaign, although she is being dogged by questions about her record as home secretary on police numbers.

  6. May claims Sturgeon could be 'pulling the strings' after the electionpublished at 14:35 British Summer Time 5 June 2017

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    Theresa May

    Theresa May is campaigning in Edinburgh, telling supporters: "We are four proud nations but one united people."

    She returns to her core campaign theme of "strong and stable leadership" and who is best qualified to lead Brexit negotiations which, she adds, start 11 days after the election.

    She says the alternative to her as prime minister is "Jeremy Corbyn in Number 10 and Nicola Sturgeon pulling the strings from Bute House".

    Mrs May adds: "Give me the authority to speak for Britain."

  7. Reality Check: How accurate are election polls?published at 14:18 British Summer Time 5 June 2017

    Polls show the gap between the Conservatives and Labour has closed dramatically during the course of the election, but how reliable are they? Chris Morris reports.

  8. 'Five terror plots disrupted since Westminster attack' - Tories' security ministerpublished at 14:17 British Summer Time 5 June 2017

    The World at One
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    Security minister Ben Wallace has told the World at One that five terrorist plots had been stopped in the past two months and many more in the year as a whole.

    Defending the government over accusations that the terror threat was exacerbated by the overall level of cuts in police numbers - some 19,000 since 2010 and a fall in the number of armed officers - Mr Wallace said: 'We haven't cut the counter-terrorism budget and let's not forget in all this that crime is down 30%.

    "Our security services and police have had a tremendous success in a number of plots. They've disrupted 5 plots alone since the Westminster Bridge attack and indeed 18 over the last year. That's a significant number. There are many, many other plots - dozens - that don't make it to sophistication because we have either disrupted them or made sure they don't progress."

  9. The recent history of Welsh votingpublished at 14:17 British Summer Time 5 June 2017

    BBC Wales' Arwyn Jones looks at how the last few elections in Wales have panned out.

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  10. Owen on reporting of terrorism and foreign warspublished at 14:17 British Summer Time 5 June 2017

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    Lord Owen, who was once a Labour foreign secretary but went on to lead the SDP, says the country needs to "strengthen our mechanism" for responding to reports from the public about terrorism.

    Lord Owen, who is now an independent, crossbench peer, tells the World at One: "If you do fight wars outside your own country, you get identified by the people who live in those countries either positively or negatively."

    This means you "make enemies", he argues - but he insists that the UK only fights wars when it has to.

  11. Former foreign secretary 'concerned' when control orders scrappedpublished at 14:17 British Summer Time 5 June 2017

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    "I bow to no-one in my admiration of what the security services try to do," says former Labour Foreign Secretary Dame Margaret Beckett, who has also served on Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee.

    She says the committee was "concerned" when control orders were dropped and calls for all counter-terrorism measures to be looked at "afresh".

    Dame Margaret adds: "I have a degree of respect for Theresa May but she cannot talk as though she's the only one with a degree of wisdom."

  12. Scottish economy 'needs to be competitive'published at 13:58 British Summer Time 5 June 2017

    UKIP's David Coburn launches his party's manifesto, saying he wants to see a competitive economy in Scotland.

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  13. 'Everyone listen to Conservative policy wonk' - Labour's Trickettpublished at 13:57 British Summer Time 5 June 2017

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    BBC Radio 4

    Shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett has said he thinks "everyone in the country" should listen to David Cameron's former policy chief Steve Hilton, who has publicly called for Theresa May to resign.

    Mr Trickett said: "The former policy wonk in number 10 Downing Street who worked for the Conservative party has called for her resignation. And he did so because there are serious questions which need to be answered."

  14. Tory peer thinks attack was not connected with the electionpublished at 13:57 British Summer Time 5 June 2017

    The World at One
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    Lord Tebbit

    The World at One speaks to three former cabinet ministers following the London attack.

    Lord Tebbit was a minister in Margaret Thatcher's cabinet, whose wife was seriously injured when the IRA bombed the Conservative Party conference in Brighton in 1984.

    He thinks the timing of Saturday's attack has "more to do with Ramadan than our election date".

    He praises the rapid response of the police on Saturday but thinks the security forces are "overwhelmed with third, fourth and fifth-rate intelligence" from some members of the public.

    He likens it to intelligence gathering on the IRA, arguing that there were members of the public and people "in the highest ranks of politics on this side of the water who were extremely sympathetic to the IRA".

  15. How has armed policing changed?published at 13:40 British Summer Time 5 June 2017

    The number of police on our streets - armed or not - is now at the heart of an election row.

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  16. Former UKIP candidate accuses colleague of 'breakdown' over LibDem endorsementpublished at 13:18 British Summer Time 5 June 2017

    Michael Baker, UKIP's former candidate for the parliamentary seat of North Norfolk, says he'll be looking to get a colleague thrown out of the party for backing the Liberal Democrats' Norman Lamb.

    UKIP's local government spokesman Peter Reeves, who is a Huntingdonshire councillor, issued a video urging voters to support Mr Lamb.

    UKIP is not fielding a candidate in the seat - instead it had asked the 8,300 people who voted for them in 2015 to "lend" their votes to the Conservatives.

    Mr Baker, who stood for the seat two years ago, says his immediate reaction to the video was one of "absolute incredulity".

    He said: "I've known Pete Reeve for a long time and looking at the transcript of his endorsement video, I can only assume he's been working extremely hard on UKIP matters, the general election and his county council work and has probably overdone it and maybe is perhaps heading towards a breakdown."

    He went on to say that he wondered whether it comes under the heading of fake news - "because we do know what people can do with cameras and video" - adding he hoped it was false news and that Norman Lamb wouldn't get tarnished by latching on to it and taking it as wholehearted encouragement to vote for him.

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    I doubt whether Peter Reeve's tenure within the party will last too much longer if what we apparently see - and I do use the word fake news - what we apparently see is true, because I will certainly be looking to get him slung out."

    Michael Baker, UKIP

  17. How can you burst your filter bubble?published at 13:14 British Summer Time 5 June 2017

    It might be the defining feature of politics in the social media age. So how can you pop your own "filter bubble"?

  18. 'Voting will protect our way of life'published at 13:14 British Summer Time 5 June 2017

    Gypsy leader Billy Welch says his community need to use the ballot box to protect their way of life.

  19. Terror attacks in the UKpublished at 13:14 British Summer Time 5 June 2017

    Information graphic on terror deaths