BBC Radio 5 Live

Referring to the report on the Daily Telegraph's front page, the PM asks: "What is this nonsense?"

"I am sure there are conversations that take place between politicians of all parties but certainly nobody's been offered a peerage."

BBC Radio 5 Live

"The FCO is working around the clock to secure the release not just of Naznanin and her family... but to secure the release of all dual national prisoners who are held in Tehran," he says.

"I've made it clear to the Iranian authorities that they have no business detaining her."

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained at an Iranian airport in April 2016, while travelling home to London with her young daughter.

Here is a reminder of what the Iran jail case is about.

Image source, AFP

BBC Radio 5 Live

Asked by the presenter whether he supports the HS2 project, the PM says he is "not 100% behind it" because the "costs are very high", adding he has commissioned a report into it.

"When it comes to a big choice for our country about whether or not just to scrap something that is of massive potential national importance, I really do hesitate," he says.

Speaking about plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport, he says the promoters "have yet to satisfy" courts when it comes to standards on things like noise and air quality.

BBC Radio 5 Live

Annette from Portishead says she's been failed by her local Tory MP but wants to leave Europe - what should she do on election day?

Mr Johnson says he has a "vision for the country" but needs to "get Brexit done by January". He says their plan means "uniting and levelling up the country".

That means improving infrastructure - such as roads in the west country. But he criticises Labour's "slightly fantastical" plan for broadband and says the Tories' own plan to extend the fibre network is "fully costed".

When Annette complains about the failure to provide Portishead with rail links, he says they are today announcing £500m to reverse the Beeching railway cuts in the 1960s.

"I believe in rail, I believe in mass transit," he says.

BBC Radio 5 Live

"I love fish and chips," says Boris Johnson, adding that he wants to support the industry.

"Once we get Brexit done we will have entire marine wealth - entire fisheries of the UK will be under the control of the UK.

"We want to help small businesses with business rate relief.

"WIth skills... we're putting £2bn into training people up in skills."

BBC Radio 5 Live

BBC Radio 5 Live

Boris Johnson is in the BBC 5 Live studio getting ready to answer questions from the public.

The programme has received an unprecedented number of messages.

The Conservatives' big announcement of the day so far is a pledge to help "left-behind" towns by offering reduced business rates.

Smaller cinemas and music venues would also get discounts on business rates.

Boris Johnson says the package of measures would help "overlooked and left-behind" towns, and help people "put the heart back into the places they call home".

The changes would only apply in England, as Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have the power to set their own business rate relief.

Read more about the plans

BBC Radio 5 Live

Lib Dem deputy leader Sir Ed Davey says people in his party "find it very difficult to find things in common" with Labour and the Conservatives.

He confirms that if no party wins a majority in the 12 December poll, the Lib Dems will not do a deal to help put another party in Downing Street.

"What we would do instead is if a government tried to form a minority government ... we would vote issue by issue," he says.

Such a policy would encourage the other parties to compromise, he says.

"We find the way that Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn have behaved, whether it's on Brexit or on the economy, they've taken their parties to the far left and the hard right," he says.

"We find it very difficult to find things in common with them."

Asked about recent figures which show hospital performance in England is at its worst level on record, the PM says the Conservatives will invest £34bn in the NHS, build new hospitals and recruit "thousands" of GPs and nurses.

"[The UK's] success depends on two things being in balance. One is fantastic public services and the other is a dynamic market economy... at the moment business is stymied, business is frustrated by the refusal of Parliament to get Brexit done and move on," he says.

"The debts that Labour would rack up with their economic policies would make it impossible for us to make the long-term investments in public services that we need."

BBC Radio 5 Live

Laura Kuenssberg
BBC political editor

Both the main parties have been snarled up in their promises about immigration.

Higher? Lower? Limited? Unlimited? European, non-European? Skilled? Un-skilled?

Labour is tangled up over whether it will do what its conference voted to do in September, to "extend freedom of movement" if it wins the election.

Home Secretary Priti Patel was yesterday repeatedly pressed over whether the Conservative Party's intention is truly to cut the numbers overall, or just to have control.

A party press release said a Tory government would reduce the numbers, but in later interviews Ms Patel was less enthusiastic about repeating that language.

No mistake, Labour and the Tories have radically different approaches to handling the number of people that move to the UK.

Read more analysis from Laura.

Today Programme
BBC Radio 4

Image source, Reuters

Labour's shadow chancellor John McDonnell has been setting out his plans for free full-fibre broadband for everyone in the UK, by nationalising part of BT.

He tells BBC Radio 4's Today programme that this is the last government takeover of industry that he plans to announce.

Challenged that he had already promised he had revealed "the limits of our ambition" before the broadband announcement, he says: "There were all sorts of flights of fancy, we’re not taking over all of BT."

But asked directly if Labour was preparing more nationalisation plans, he says: "No, we’re not."

Mr McDonnell says the plan is modelled on successful fibre broadband roll-outs in countries such as South Korea.

"If we want to be globally competitive, we have to start building for the future."

Boris Johnson's withdrawal agreement says the UK and the EU would have to decide by 1 July 2020, external whether to extend the post-Brexit transition period beyond 31 December 2020.

So if the UK were to leave on 31 January, there would be exactly five months to negotiate a trade deal.

Asked whether he will guarantee he will not change or extend this 1 July 2020 deadline, the PM says: "If we get a working majority, and all we need is nine more seats, then we can absolutely guarantee it."

BBC Breakfast

The PM is talking about the UK leaving the EU on 31 January 2020.

"The deal that we'll be doing with the EU is unlike any other deal they have ever done. They're doing it with a state that is already in perfect harmony with their arrangements," PM Boris Johnson says.

"All we have to do is protract those arrangements where appropriate, come out of regulatory alignment and set up a joint committee so that we can discuss if there are any further changes we want to make, we can discuss those together."

After that, he says, the UK can get on with "doing things differently", on "everything from cutting VAT on tampons... to putting free ports around the UK".

There are 650 constituencies in the UK but most of the campaigning for the general election will take place in a smaller number.

As ever, much of the focus will be on marginal constituencies - places where the winning majority in 2017 was small.

However, at this election the parties will also be targeting a large number of constituencies beyond the marginal seats.

There will be a lot of focus on areas that voted strongly to Leave or strongly to Remain in the EU referendum - even where the majorities are large. Big swings cannot be ruled out.

We've taken a closer look at the seats that appear crucial to the result of the election.

BBC Breakfast

Responding to the assertion that the government has delayed Brexit, the PM says: "Woah, woah, woah... Parliament blocked us, which is why we're having this election. I don't want to have this election now."

BBC Breakfast

The UK will be out of the EU by January, the PM says.

"There is absolutely no reason why between January and the end of next year we shouldn't complete that free trade deal and have a wonderful new partnership with the EU based on zero tariffs, zero quotas and getting on with all the other ways in which we want to be a pro-European country," he says.

The UK is currently due to leave the EU by 31 January 2020, the end of the current extension period granted by the EU.

Today Programme
BBC Radio 4

The Liberal Democrats have faced criticism from students ever since they backed the introduction of £9,000 a year tuition fees.

But on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Lib Dem Treasury spokesman Ed Davey makes a pitch to win them back.

"Austerity is now finished as far as I'm concerned," he says. He says the party will reintroduce maintenance grants, the government payments to fund students' living costs while they are at university.

Image source, Getty

Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage is claiming the Conservatives offered his candidates jobs and peerages to try to get them to stand down.

Mr Farage says his candidates received "thousands of phone calls and emails" trying to get them to withdraw ahead of next month's election.

The Tories deny offering Brexit Party candidates jobs or peerages.

Read more about the claims here.