As something of a storm erupts over that interaction between the Tory leader and ITV's Joe Pike, Boris Johnson begins a speech at a haulage business in Sunderland, as part of his tour of Brexit-voting Labour-held seats in north-east England.

He begins by saying it is 1,264 days since Sunderland voted to Leave the EU but since then there has been "dither, delay and procrastination" by Parliament and "a refusal to get Brexit done".

"We want to move our country forwards but it's blocked," he adds.

Reaction is pouring in to that on camera incident involving Boris Johnson and ITV News' Joe Pike.

The story of Jack Williment-Barr was originally broken by the Daily Mirror - see their story here., external

The tweet we just brought you from Joe Pike, of ITV News is getting a lot of traction online with more than half a million views already.

Labour's Angela Rayner is one of those deeply unimpressed.

A reminder, Joe Pike tried to use his phone to show Boris Johnson a photo of a sick boy on the floor of an overcrowded hospital - but the prime minister initially responded by taking the phone from him rather than looking at it.

A few minutes ago we brought you a Conservative candidate's reaction to the photo in the Yorkshire Evening Post of a four-year-old boy, with suspected pneumonia, sleeping on a hospital floor because there weren't enough beds.

Now the PM himself has spoken out about it - but only after trying to dodge the question several times.

ITV's Joe Pike was doing the questioning and as this clip of the exchange shows, Mr Johnson takes his phone away from him when he tries to show him the picture.

Eventually, though, Mr Johnson does respond, taking the phone back out of his pocket and looking at it.

"It's a terrible terrible photo, and I apologise obviously to the family," Mr Johnson says.

The World at One
BBC Radio 4

Officials from the Department for Exiting the EU have warned the government that "one of a number of challenges" in delivering Boris Johnson's Brexit deal is the facilities needed for "high levels of checks and controls" between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.

The warning was in a leaked memo, which has been seen by the BBC's economics editor, Faisal Islam.

Faisal tells the World at One: "Whatever we've heard from the prime minister and various government ministers, it's always been clear that there will be new arrangements, checks and controls, on Irish Sea trade going from Great Britain to Northern Ireland

"Now he says that won't be required if the goods are intended for Northern Ireland but how do you know? You can only check whether or not they'll be going on to the Republic of Ireland.

"What you have is a picture of officials scratching their heads about how you implement the Northern Ireland aspects of this deal by December 2020."

Norman Smith
Assistant political editor

Labour want to convince voters that if you vote for Jeremy Corbyn, the world is going to change around us within days.

And almost as a symbolic demonstration of that, they're saying that if Mr Corbyn is victorious he will arrive in Downing Street on Friday morning not in a limo but on his bicycle.

He'll take his bicycle clips off, go into No 10 and immediately start issuing instructions to civil servants to begin renationalising the water and energy industries, begin preparing for a Budget eight weeks later to "end austerity", and to start setting up this national transformation fund and investment bank to pour billions into disadvantaged parts of the country before Christmas.

And the point about this is to convince voters that this radical agenda isn't pie in the sky, never really going to happen, pipe dream sort of stuff - this is real change that Labour is going to deliver within days.

BBC Politics Live
BBC2's lunchtime political programme

The Conservatives pledge in their manifesto to "update" the Human Rights Act and administrative law "to ensure that there is a proper balance between the rights of individuals, our vital national security and effective government".

Asked what problem the Conservatives are trying to resolve, Paul Scully replies: "Parliament has failed for the last couple of years in terms of constitutional issues with the Speaker making up the rules as he's gone along."

He says the Conservatives haven't got a "specific proposal" but think there is a "problem" - although he denies that the Conservatives want to stop judicial reviews of the government's decisions.

Here we look at that and other key Conservative manifesto pledges.

In that piece, the BBC's legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman points out that since the early 1980s, there has been a significant growth in the use of judicial review - which enables an individual or group to ask a court to determine whether a decision taken by a public body, including ministers, is lawful or not.

Many regard it as a critical democratic check, but other feel that judges - unelected and unaccountable - are now too involved in political decision-making and more should be known about their political views.

Katya Adler
Europe Editor

It’s important to remember the red line PM crossed to get his Brexit deal. He didn’t get it by bullying, impressing or charming the EU. He got it by agreeing to protect their single market on the island of Ireland by putting a customs border down the Irish Sea. Allowing a ‘division’ between Northern Ireland and Great Britain that he’d pledged never to do.

Have a chat in EU circles and you’ll hear the only way Johnson really has chance of getting a bare bones free trade agreement with the EU done and dusted by Christmas next year is if he crosses his own red lines again and gives in to EU concerns on issues like level playing field regulations and allowing EU fishing rights in UK waters.

So would he give up ‘control’ and ‘sovereignty’ for a quick deal by December?

Remember, if he signs up to ongoing alignment with EU environmental, labour, state aid competition rules, etc after Brexit, then where’s the national sovereignty he promised voters? And if he doesn’t sign on the dotted line, then negotiations with the EU are bound to take longer.

Then again, if he did keep the UK close to the EU, then Brexit-related divisions between Northern Ireland and the rest of UK would diminish as the need for controls, checks and paperwork to keep an eye on what’s coming in or going out would decrease.

It all comes down to not being able to have your cake and eat it. Those trade-offs so many politicians seem very reluctant to come clean about.

Does the BBC's Adam Fleming really know what's in the main parties' manifestos?

Watch Jeremy Vine put him to the test.

BBC Politics Live
BBC2's lunchtime political programme

Next up on Politics Live is the Conservative Paul Scully, who's asked for his reaction to the photo in the Yorkshire Evening Post of a four-year-old boy, with suspected pneumonia, sleeping on a hospital floor because there weren't enough beds.

Mr Scully says: "It's terrible. No-one should have to undergo that level of service, as it were, in a hospital."

He insists the Conservatives are putting more money in - £34bn over the next few years - but presenter Jo Coburn challenges him robustly on that figure, saying that - according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies - it is actually £21.5bn in real terms by 2023/24.

Asked whether he'd like to apologise for what happened in Leeds General Infirmary, he says: "I can't comment either way on a situation in Leeds from one single photo. I just want to make sure that that doesn't happen again.

"This is why it's important that we put more money in but it is also important that we organise that money, spend that money in the best way so it's seen at the front-line of services rather than dogmatic spending as we've seen from the Labour Party."

The Brexity Party has a "big chance" of winning two seats in Barnsley, says its leader Nigel Farage.

Revisiting the town ahead of Thursday's general election, he urges local volunteers to tell voters there is a "sea change going on" in Barnsley East and Barnsley Central, which both have Labour MPs.

He says the Conservatives have never won in Barnsley, and to tell constituents: "Don't waste your vote, vote for our candidates."

"I promise you, if we do this properly, we're going to get two people from Barnsley elected into Westminster," he says.

Read the full list of candidates for Barnsley East here and for Barnsley Central here.

Nigel Farage is one of those taking part in tonight's Question Time special with younger voters.

Earlier, BBC Look North political editor Richard Moss pointed out that Boris Johnson’s visit to Sunderland today is his third campaign appearance in the North East. Nigel Farage has been three times, but Jeremy Corbyn is yet to come to the region at all.

Adding to that,, external he notes that there has also been no sign in the North East yet of shadow chancellor John McDonnell, yet today he is "again talking about regional development banks and moving part of the Treasury to the North in a speech in London".

"I get that individual Labour candidates in the North East want to fight local campaigns and are not keen to have a leadership visit. But if not Corbyn and McDonnell, who is going to sell the overall Labour vision and manifesto to a region where seats are under severe threat?" he asks.

BBC Politics Live
BBC2's lunchtime political programme

Fresh from his speech and press conference, Labour's John McDonnell is talking to BBC's Politics Live.

With Boris Johnson campaigning in Brexit-voting Labour-held seats in the north-east of England, Mr McDonnell is asked whether his party is losing support from its traditional base to the Conservatives.

He says he never takes any vote for granted and that those communities rightly feel they've been "neglected" - which is why Labour is promising to put resources into those areas to rebuild their economies.

He says Brexit and the NHS are "doorstep" issues with many people affected by the image of a four-year-old boy with pneumonia, external sleeping on the floor of a hospital.

Have a look at the latest polling here in our freshly updated tracker.

Parents (and any small children!) reading our live page might be familiar with the joy that is Hey Duggee.

Well, here you can see Duggee and his pals take on the topic of the day...

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Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson answered questions earlier from listeners to BBC Radio 5 Live, in a special phone in hosted by Rachel Burden.

Topics included Brexit, coalitions, farming, climate change and gender issues.

If you missed it, click here to listen on BBC Sounds.

Some remarks made by Boris Johnson on Sky News yesterday are prompting a reaction on Twitter today.

It's one line in particular where he said: "You’ve seen quite a large number of people coming in from the whole of the EU... able to treat the UK as though it’s basically part of their own country and the problem with that is there has been no control at all and I don’t think that is democratically accountable."

Some online have reacted negatively, although the Conservatives argue there is significant support for a more controlled immigration system - they say they want a so-called Australian-style points system based on skills.

Here our correspondent Dominic Casciani looks closely at the issue of immigration.

And here is a flavour of reaction from comedian Rob Delaney, football pundit Gary Linekar and political commentator Ash Sarkar.

Victoria Derbyshire

One audience member asks about the NHS being "on the table" in trade negotiations with the US if Boris Johnson remains PM - that warning has been a key Labour campaign focus.

Conservative MP Nigel Evans responds: "The NHS isn't up for sale, it's one of the smoke screens that Angela and her party have portrayed throughout the past four or five weeks of this election campaign."

Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner claims there have been "two years of negotiations on pharmaceuticals", but Victoria Derbyshire points out they were discussions, not negotiations.

Conservative MP Nigel Evans is also pushed on the party's Brexit promises.

BBC Reality Check's Chris Morris points out that it's an "extremely tight timetable" to get a free trade deal before the end of 2020, as they can take years to agree and ratification alone can take take several months.

But Mr Evans responds: "We believe that Boris will get us that trade deal by the end of 2020."

Read more on whether the NHS really could be "for sale" here.

Victoria Derbyshire

We're dotting around a bit here, but now that the big Labour speech is done we can bring you a bit more from that BBC debate involving undecided voters.

The candidates are being quizzed on their social care policies, and the Liberal Democrat Wera Hobhouse flags up her party's plan to raise tax - an extra penny on income tax - to pay for personal care.

She calls it a "fair, progressive tax" to fund a system that's been "severely starved of resources".

Meanwhile, the SNP points out that Scotland has been providing free personal care since 2002.

What's more, this year it's extending free personal care to people in need under the age of 65.

The situation in Scotland prompts a member of the audience to ask: "How is Scotland able to provide free social care to the elderly?

"Is there something that the rest of the country needs to look at and see what they're doing in Scotland and therefore implement it?"

One last question for John McDonnell - he's asked about reports in the Sunday Times, external that he is poised to become interim leader of the Labour Party if it loses the election - and whether he can rule this out.

He replies by saying "it's not going to happen because we're going to have a majority Labour government".

“I take nothing for granted," Mr McDonnell says, but adds that he thinks people have "had enough of austerity" and "being lied to by Boris Johnson and his colleagues".

“It will be dependent on turnout," he adds, saying "the most important thing now is to make sure people turn out and vote on the day".

Back to John McDonnell and questions from reporters. He's then asked why some voters in traditional Labour heartlands - which the prime minister is visiting today - are considering voting Tory for the first time.

He deflects the question, instead saying that the message on the doorstep is that Labour voters have “had enough of austerity” and want “real change”.

He also criticises Boris Johnson, saying he finds it "incredibly difficult even to mix with people" when he is out campaigning and is "probably the least-trusted politician that people have ever experienced".

The shadow chancellor is also asked about Labour's Brexit position, and as these two tweets from Jason Groves of the Daily Mail and Emilio Casalicchio from Politico make clear, the answer is open to interpretation...