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The BBC's home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw has been looking at the policing figures for the BBC's World At One.

He says England and Wales are 20,000 officers down on 2010 because of funding cuts and limits placed on how much local authorities can raise their council tax.

The Conservatives have pointed out that the number of police in frontline roles has gone up, but there will be fluctuations across forces, says Danny Shaw.

He says Labour want to bring in 10,000 extra police officers, at a cost of £300m a year.

"I think Labour has seriously underestimated costs," he goes on, pointing out the costing does not include uniform and equipment such as Tasers, or recruitment and training costs. 

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UKIP leader Paul Nuttall accuses the European Commission of "playing hard-ball" at the start of Brexit negotiations in response to reports of clashes between Theresa May and Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker at a Downing Street dinner. 

Speaking during campaigning in Dudley, Mr Nuttall said it was clear the European Commission "won't be able to bully Britain and nor should they". 

"We have a huge trading deficit with the European Union. There are millions of jobs on the continent dependent on British trade. There will be that trade deal at the end of these negotiations but what Theresa May must do is hold firm. 

"We must not pay any divorce bill whatsoever." 

But Mr Nuttall said he was not confident that Theresa May would get the best deal for Britain. 

He said UKIP MPs were needed because Mrs May "would begin to back-slide" on fisheries and end up paying some sort of divorce bill. 

"If you want clean Brexiteers, true Brexiteers, people who want to cut immigration, you should go out and vote UKIP," he added.

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Co-leader of the Green Party Caroline Lucas tells an event in London: "We accept of course that the referendum was an instruction to the government to begin Brexit negotiations - we do not accept however that the decision should be irreversible. 

"The referendum should be the start, not the end, of the democratic process and it's therefore right that people themselves should have the right to have a say on the final deal in a ratification referendum with the option to remain in the EU firmly there on the ballot paper."

She says there will be those who say this is against the will of the people, but she argues that the claim the referendum produced "an irreversible verdict is a sham".

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We've been waiting to see what George Osborne's first stab at editing a paper would look like, and now we have a taster with his first editorial:, external

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Mairead McGuinness, MEP and Irish politician, is asked about the possibility Northern Ireland deciding to hold a border poll - and whether a united Ireland would have automatic EU membership.

She says that, if a referendum showed people wanted a united Ireland, that "new entity" would be a full member of the European Union.

She points out, however, that "peace is as important as economics and perhaps much more". 

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It's no surprise that the subject of Theresa May's dinner with Jean-Claude Juncker crops up again.

Mairead McGuinness, an Irish MEP, says there were a number of people at the "famous dinner", stressing she wasn't among them.

Reports suggest though that there was "perhaps not a meeting of minds", she says, adding that all that will have to be left to the side once the Brexit negotiations start. 

But Conservative Dominic Raab says reports of what happened at the dinner are "not credible".

The key thing, he says, is to stay resolute - Theresa May is not going to be "pushed around". 

In contrast to the media title-tattle, the EU and the UK appear to be "two-thirds" in agreement already, he says.

The Plaid Cymru leader on what result the party is focussed on in the forthcoming Election

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The Prime Minister arrives in Mevagissey on the second leg of her tour of the south west.

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Politics professor Philip Cowley says the exchange between Diane Abbott and Dominic Raab is indicative of the campaign as a whole so far - a focus on new policies from Labour versus a focus on competence and leadership from the Conservatives.

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Dominic Raab says voters "don't care about what we put in in terms of money" or even the number of officers in their local force - they care about levels of crime.

But he insists the government is "not complacent".

"The country understands we have to cut our coat according to our cloth," he adds.

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Conservative Dominic Raab calls Diane Abbott's handling of the policing policy "a shambles", but he's quickly steered back onto the issue of cuts to forces.

He acknowledges there have been "difficult decisions" on police budgets but insists crime is down overall - and violent crime down by more than 20%.

"The public know it. No-one thinks that Diane Abbott or Jeremy Corbyn are going to be stronger custodians of law and order."

He tells Diane Abbott: "You can't get the basic facts right."

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Moving on to capital gains tax, Jo Coburn asks Diane Abbott what level it will be set at under Labour - given that the tax is earmarked as the source of funds for the 10,000 extra police officers being promised.

Ms Abbott says Tory cuts will be reversed and the tax rates will go "back to what they were" - but she's pushed three times to say what the actual rates will be and doesn't do it.

She stresses how important those officers will be though for tackling rising violent crime.

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The BBC's Tim Donovan has worked out the actual cost of Labour's policing pledge per year.

• By end of year two: £64m for 2,250 officers
• By end of year three: £139m for about 5,000 officers
• By end of year four: £270m for 7,500 officers
• By end of year five: £298m i.e. the offical £300m figure in Labour's press release

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"If I didn't know my figures, why was I able to do six other interviews and give the figures correctly," Diane Abbott goes on.

You have to ask why the Conservative Party is so eager to shift the debate away from their cuts to police numbers, she says.

The BBC's Jo Coburn pushes hard, saying it is the shadow home secretary's fault that everyone is talking about her mistake, not the actual policy.

"The public will understand that you're not willing to talk about the real issues," Ms Abbott hits back.

Earlier we mentioned reports of very tight restrictions around the prime minister's visit to a factory in St Ives. Well, Cornwall Live is keeping us up to date, external on their sequestration. It seems reporters weren't allowed to film her answering any questions or meeting employees, and for a time they were locked in a room.

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