PM says commitment to spending 0.7% of GDP on foreign aid will remain
Labour focuses on education, blaming the Tories for "super-sized classes"
Lib Dem leader Tim Farron says activists and donors were "flocking" to the party on the back of its anti-Brexit message
Nicola Sturgeon launches council elections manifesto as a "clear choice" between SNP and Tories
The government has ditched controversial probate fee rises ahead of the 8 June election
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Theresa May has defended her change of heart over holding a general election - saying leaving it to 2020 would mean the most sensitive and critical part of the negotiations over Brexit would take place just before a poll.
Anybody who abstains against a general election is supporting the record of a Conservative government, she said.
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Conservative Nigel Evans, in an intervention, said it was perverse that people who did not want a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU, now wanted a second referendum.
Theresa May agreed, saying that those who wanted a second poll would be denying the will of the British people who voted for us to leave the EU.
"A general election will provide the country with five years of strong and stable leadership to see us through the negotiations and make sure we are able to make a success of the result," she said.
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Theresa May says MPs should be united in Parliament to get the best possible deal over Brexit.
Former Labour leadership candidate Andy Burnham said he could understand why the PM wanted to divert attention to Brexit, but he said the real issues were about older people without care and schools sending begging letters to parents.
Mrs May cited the record of the previous Labour administration, before saying divisions would only be used against the government during its negotiations with the EU.
She said it was "the responsible thing" for MPs to vote for a general election.
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Theresa May says MPs have a "window of opportunity" before the EU negotiations begin to hold a general election.
She said securing the right deal for Britain "is our priority and I'm confident we have the plan to do it".
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Theresa May says since the EU referendum consumer confidence has remained high and there are record numbers of people in jobs.
"Britain is leaving the EU and there can be no turning back," she said.
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Theresa May is moving the motion to hold a general election on 8 June, and says this will give MPs a "clear and simple opportunity" to vote for a poll that will provide the leadership the UK needs to for Brexit.
Conservative Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green has defended Theresa May's decision not to take part in televised debates during the forthcoming general election.
He said TV debates "have become almost artificial in the amount of preparation and rehearsal" that goes into them, "so you are not seeing the real person".
He argued that social media has superceded television as a method of distributing the news.
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After the bear pit of PMQs it's time for a ten minute rule bill.
Conservative MP David Burrowes begins a short speech in support of his Child Maintenance (Assessment of Parents' Income) Bill.
The bill would "equalise the assessment and enforcement of child maintenance arrangements of children of self-employed parents with that of children of other employed parents".
Writing for Politics Home,, external the MP said: "Many parents have waited all too long for fair child maintenance for their children and will not let a general election get in the way of their campaign."
Speaking today, he says he is grateful so many MPs are still in the chamber for his speech but he feels like "the filler in the prime minister's sandwich".
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Lord Kinnock: "I am unlikely to live to see another Labour government"
Lord Kinnock has claimed it is "unlikely [he will] live to see another Labour government." Speaking to BBC Radio 5 live, the former Labour leader said it was unlikely the party could make the gains it needed without "substantial changes".
BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, giving a post mortem on PMQs, said Theresa May kept returning to Jeremy Corbyn's leadership during the exchanges.
But the Labour leader's theme was that the Tories stand for broken promises, she said.
She said on one side Mrs May will do everything she can to make the election about Mr Corbyn's leadership - while Mr Corbyn will make the campaign about the Conservatives' record.
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Where will the key battlegrounds in Scotland be in the snap general election in June 2017?
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Veteran left-wing Labour MP Dennis Skinner asked the PM to give a guarantee that "no Tory MP who is under investigation by the police and legal authorities" over election expenses in the last election should be a candidate in the 8 June poll.
"If you won't accept that, this is the most squalid election campaign that has happened in my lifetime," he said.
Mrs May says she stands by all the Conservative MPs who will be out there campaigning for a brighter and better future for the UK.
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Former Labour leadership contender Yvette Cooper said it was not true to say MPs and peers had tried to block Brexit - and neither was it true when the PM said she would not be holding a general election until 2020.
"You want us to believe you are a woman of your word," Ms Cooper said, but added that the truth was people "cannot believe a single word she says".
Mrs May said the Commons and Parliament had voted to trigger Article 50 but the opposition parties and the peers had tried to frustrate the Brexit process.
She said it was right to ask the British people to put their trust in her to deliver Brexit and deliver a stronger fairer future for Britain.
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Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said the general election has the ability to change the direction of Britain - referring to the consequences of a position outside the single market.
He said people deserved to hear from the party leaders, but the PM had refused to take part in TV debates. He said previously he had debated with Mrs May, adding: "Why will you not debate those issues publicly now? What are you scared of?"
Mrs May says she will be debating all these issues, and taking the proud record of a Conservative government for making Brexit a success and a stronger Britain, to the people.
She said the thing that unites "Corbyn, Farron and Sturgeon" is "they want to unite together to divide our country and we will not let them do it".
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All today and yesterday, you've been telling BBC Radio 5 live your views on what the upcoming general election means for you.
One voter told us he believed a "Brexit" general election would re-open divides on social media that had just begun to heal after the EU referendum.
Bolton father-of-four Ian said: "Suddenly the politics is alive again on social media when we'd just started posting pictures of our children and our cats again.
“We are in entrenched positions shouting at each other and that can get unpleasant at times.”
Social media 'can get unpleasant' during the election, Ian from Bolton says
The former Chancellor George Osborne does not rule out a return to politics in his resignation letter.
“I am stepping down from the House of Commons - for now," he writes. "But I will remain active in the debate about our country’s future and on the issues I care about, like the success of the Northern Powerhouse.
“I want a Britain that is free, open, diverse and works with other nations to defend our democratic values in the world.
“I will go on fighting for that Britain I love from the editor’s chair of a great newspaper. It’s still too early to be writing my memoirs.”
