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Labour's Sir Keir Starmer has criticised Theresa May's announcement she would change human rights laws to tackle terrorism, calling it a diversion.

Sir Keir said there was nothing in the laws that get in the way of tackling terrorism.

"The Human Rights Act did not stop me from prosecuting terrorists," he added.

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Nick Clegg has labelled Theresa May's plans to change human rights laws if they get in the way of tackling the terror threat a "cynical distraction".

The former Lib Dem deputy prime minister said London Bridge attacker Youssef Zaghba, a 22-year-old Moroccan-Italian man who lived in the capital, had been able to enter the UK despite being placed on an EU-wide watch list.

He says Theresa May's Brexit proposals "will weaken and possibly entirely restrict our ability to access those databases in the future".

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Labour's Sir Keir Starmer is asked why leader Jeremy Corbyn is not on the Today programme on the last day of campaigning.

"I think leaders should be on," Sir Keir says - but adds that Mr Corbyn has been campaigning hard all over the UK.

If Mr Corbyn becomes prime minister, he will be in the Commons with a large number of Labour members who voted no confidence in him last year, presenter John Humphrys suggests.

Sir Keir responds that the party's election candidates are "absolutely supporting Labour and Jeremy for a victory".

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Sir Keir Starmer appears on Today, saying he prosecuted very serious offences as director of public prosecutions and that the "the Human Rights Act did not get in the way of what we were doing".

Sir Keir, now Labour's shadow Brexit secretary, accuses Theresa May of raising the act "as if that stands in the way of the current problem".

He cautions against "throwing away the very values that are at the heart of our democracy and everything we believe in".

Mrs May "is going to have to explain how she's going to amend the Human Rights Act" if the Conservatives win the election, he adds.

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Jeremy Corbyn has hailed the general election as the "most fantastic people-powered campaign I can ever remember".

The Labour leader also stressed that his "allotment is fine, my vegetables are growing extremely well, my voice gets stronger as the day goes on and I'm just about to speak at the 84th rally that I've done in this campaign, right here in Buchanan Street in Glasgow".

Mr Corbyn says he will be going to more rallies across the country, ending the day in his constituency at 9pm tonight.

"I'm really enjoying it and are so are the people going into this campaign," he says, adding that they are hopeful "we can change this country and give our young people a real chance and the old people the protection they deserve".

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Labour Brexit spokesman Sir Keir Starmer says the prime minister's comments on human rights laws are "a diversionary tactic".

He tells 5 Live: "We've got to define the real threat, which is people coming onto the radar and being risk assessed... and whether we've got the resources" for the police and intelligence services to deal with them.

He says it is right to question whether Theresa May "was right to cut back as far as she did on police numbers" when she was home secretary.

Sir Keir insists that "we didn't face the problem of 'How long are you holding people?'" when he was director of public prosecutions.

He says the question now is: "Have we got enough police officers on the ground so they are picking up the intelligence?"

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Diane Abbott is "taking a break" from the election campaign because she's not been well for the past couple of days, Jeremy Corbyn has said.

The shadow home secretary called in sick to an interview on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour yesterday.

But asked if he had confidence in Ms Abbott, the Labour leader said:

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Jeremy Corbyn says he does not want politicians making decisions outside of the law and deciding the fate of individuals.

The Labour leader was reacting to Theresa May's pledge to change human rights laws if they hamper a crackdown on terror suspects.

He argued that if democracy is under threat, then you strengthen it to deal with that threat.

"We won't defeat terrorism by ripping up our basic rights and democracy, but by police action to isolate and detain those who wish us harm," he told BBC Breakfast

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Campaigner Gina Miller, who initiated the court case to secure a vote in Parliament on triggering the Brexit process, tells Today we haven't had much detail about Brexit in the election campaign.

In particular, she argues, there has not been much information about the economic implications of what will happen when "the state of our economy will blight everything we do".

John Longworth, the former head of the British Chambers of Commerce who resigned in order to campaign to leave the EU, agrees that "terrorism has caused the election to be diverted".

He criticises Theresa May for emphasising a free-trade agreement as a sign of success or failure in negotiations, when he thinks "a free-trade arrangement is just the cherry on the icing on the cake".

People "still don't know what Brexit means" insists Ms Miller - but Mr Longworth is on a roll with his cake metaphors.

The UK doesn't want "a soggy-bottomed fudge as an outcome" but to "have its cake and eat it", he says.

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The work and pensions secretary says it is possible to have "derogations" from the European Convention on Human Rights. Damian Green says this is not new and is something France and Ireland have adopted in the past.

In the Conservative manifesto, the party says it will retain the ECHR for the next parliament. Mr Green says the prime minister is proposing "common-sense" measures to tackle the terror threat.

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Today presenter Mishal Husain suggests pensioners will be voting on Thursday without knowing the full details of Conservative plans on social care in England and the means-testing of the winter fuel allowance.

Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green says pensioners are better off and the Tories will protect the triple lock until 2020 - which guarantees a minimum rise in the state pension of 2.5% annually.

He says we need to means-test the winter fuel allowance, arguing that otherwise we will have "Bernie Ecclestone, Mick Jagger and John McDonnell" receiving it.

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Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green says the Conservatives are considering measures to "control people where there might not be enough evidence to bring them to court and to make it easier to deport people".

In the Conservative manifesto, the party said it would remain in the European Convention on Human Rights for the whole of the next Parliament.

However, Mr Green argues, "it is possible to have derogrations" from the convention. He says France announced it would seek them after terror attacks in Paris.

Are the Conservatives seeking a derogation from the right to a family life, enshrined in the convention?

Mr Green says some people have been able to "abuse the legislation to drag [a deportation] case out for many, many years".

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Theresa May's announcement on human rights is "a rather crass" last-minute attempt to divert attention from some of the more difficult aspect of anti-terrorism legislation, according to the Liberal Democrats' Nick Clegg.

"There is not a shred of evidence to suggest that human rights laws had anything to do" with the Manchester and London attacks, he said.

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BBC Wales political editor Nick Servini says one of the features of the general election campaign has been "the potential for the Conservatives to make pretty significant gains".

Nick says the party has made a comeback since being wiped out at parliamentary level in Wales 20 years ago. But the Tories are "not as confident as they were at the start of this campaign".

Meanwhile, Welsh Labour have been "differentiating themselves from the UK party and Jeremy Corbyn".

But he thinks their campaign has been "pretty disciplined" with no "noises off" from Mr Corbyn's critics in Welsh Labour.

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BBC Northern Ireland political editor Mark Devenport says it has been "quite a strange election".

Coming so soon after an election to the Northern Ireland Assembly in March, it has been difficult for the parties to "get going" again.

Brexit is a major election issue, with nationalists calling for a "special status" for Northern Ireland when the UK leaves the EU and unionists saying instead that "we need to get on with" Brexit.

This reflects "the traditional divide between British and Irish identity felt by people in Northern Ireland", Mark adds.