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BBC Sunday Politics

Labour's Richard Burgon accepts it wasn't "a great day" for the party last week at the local elections - but he points to the comments just made by Prof John Curtice about a slight improvement in the polls.

"They say a week is a long time in politics Four or five weeks is an even longer time and we've got a job to do.

"I'm not going to be deluded and say it was some sort of triumph. But what I'm focusing on is the next four weeks."  

Mr Burgon says Labour's focus is going to be on showing how it would improve the lives of low and middle earners - its "bread and butter", he adds.

He cites free school meals for all pupils and more funding for social care as examples of those sorts of policies.

BBC Sunday Politics

The Sunday Politics panel are considering the impact of Brexit on the party political landscape.

Janan Ganesh, from the Financial Times, (he's the one looking thoughtful on the left in the picture above) tells the Sunday Politics he isn't sure Remain backers have it in them to coalesce behind a single party.

It doesn't look like Labour or the Lib Dems can do it, he goes on, adding: "The closest thing there is to a strong Remain party is the SNP which obviously has limited broader appeal."

The Daily Mail's Isabel Oakeshott says UKIP's votes are not going to the Labour Party because of the problems with Jeremy Corbyn so they are going to the Tories instead.

Steve Richards, Independent commentator on the right of the three person panel pictured above, says one of the most major changes has been to unify the Conservative Party. Europe split the Tories almost to the point of destruction at times, he says, but now Theresa May is going into an election with a united force behind her.

BBC Sunday Politics

Election expert John Curtice - he's the large on-screen chap in the pic above -  tells the Sunday Politics the local elections point towards an 11% lead for the Conservatives - which, while good for them, would not be enough to deliver a genuine landslide.

There is still a battle to fight, he says, arguing that Labour still has the goal of keeping the Conservative majority small and the Labour parliamentary party "alive and kicking".

Mr Curtice says Labour's position does seem to have improved somewhat in the last week or so, and is more or less where it was under Ed Miliband before the 2015 general election.

"I don't think we should assume Labour are going to go backwards like they did in 1983," he concludes.

Just a quick run-down on the main lines from the morning's interviews so far:

• Shadow chancellor John McDonnell tells Andrew Marr those earning more than £80,000 a year will be asked to pay "a modest bit more". The specifics will follow in the manifesto, he says
• On Labour's electoral chances, he says the party isn't "contemplating any loss"
• Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt acknowledges the NHS has had "a very tough time since 2010" but says much more money is going in now
• And speaking of money, he insists there is new funding for Tory election pledges on boosting mental health
• Lib Dem Norman Lamb, though, thinks the pledges are "based on thin air"
• He says "a massive landslide" for the Tories looks inevitable on 8 June, but people should vote Lib Dem to install "a real Opposition" to Theresa May
• And finally, Nigel Farage says UKIP is still needed now to prevent any "backslide on Brexit", but in two years' time, well, it might be time to reassess

BBC Sunday Politics

Norman Lamb, a former health minister in the coalition government, says the Lib Dems would put 1p on income tax to give more money to the NHS, but ultimately would like to see a dedicated health and care tax brought in.

Asked if it's fair to ask people on average incomes to pay £3 more a week, he says the country as a whole needs to think about what sort of care it wants to have - and how it could be paid for.

On the general election more broadly, Mr Lamb says the country is heading towards "a massive landslide" for the Conservatives and it will fall to the Lib Dems to provide "a real Opposition".

"Do we actually want a one-party state?" he asks.

BBC Sunday Politics

"I fear the announcement is based on thin air... there is no additional money," says Lib Dem Norman Lamb of the Conservative promises on a boost for mental health provision.

He tells the Sunday Politics that "everyone outside the government", regardless of where they are in the political spectrum, knows there isn't enough money.

He says these sorts of promises are "without substance" unless more money is found. 

ITV

What are you up to now, Robert Peston asks Nigel Farage in closing.

"I'm going to continue," he replies. "The real Brexit is not going to be in Westminster, it's going to be in the European Parliament... there's far more action in Brussels than Westminster over the next two years."

He adds: 

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Mr Farage says UKIP's current leader Paul Nuttall has to follow in his own "dominant" footsteps - no easy task, he acknowledges.

But he's doing well, he adds.

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Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage says UKIP did very well at local elections four years ago.

"Four years on the British prime minister was running on exactly the same ticket and she swept the board," he tells Robert Peston.

He's absolutely confident that UKIP will survive - and indeed it must "in case there's backsliding on Brexit".

If, in two years' time, Mrs May has delivered the kind of Brexit people voted for, then you can ask what UKIP's future is, Mr Farage adds.

BBC Radio 5 live

Home Secretary Amber Rudd has followed Jeremy Hunt earlier and accused EU leaders of trying to meddle in the general election campaign. She told Pienaar's Politics that it's an aggressive negotiating tactic, which should have been kept on hold until after the election on 8 June.

Ms Rudd was also pressed about whether the Conservative manifesto would include the "tens of thousands" pledge on net migration. She said she wouldn't commit to specific immigration targets - instead saying that people should wait until the manifesto is published (probably the week after next).

Reality Check

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has repeated Labour's announcement that the party would fund free school meals for all primary school children in England by charging VAT on private school fees. 

Reality Check looked into the figures then and concluded that there's no reason Labour's plans would not work financially, unless increased fees led to large numbers of children switching from private to state schools. 

You can read the full Reality Check here.

ITV

Jeremy Hunt has moved over to Robert Peston's armchair and it's put to him that per capita spending on the NHS will have fallen significantly by 2020 from 2010 levels.

The health secretary acknowledges there was "a very difficult period" after 2010, dealing with the fallout from the financial crisis. 

But in the last three years, he says the picture is very different - £6.5bn a year extra now going in.

"I think it has been very tough for the NHS since 2010," Mr Hunt admits, noting that the NHS was historically used to a 4% increase in funding per year on average.

"We haven't been able to do that."

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"This tax hike would hit headteachers and GPs. People working in public services," says Conservative Michael Gove, above. "I don't think that we can say that those people are rich."

He warns there is "every risk" that raising tax for higher earners could actually reduce the overall take for the Treasury because it will encourage people to leave the country.

Former adviser to Ed Miliband Tom Baldwin isn't on board with the idea that voters need to see more of Jeremy Corbyn to be won round by him. 

"I think they've seen quite enough of him already," he tells Peston, and argues that the focus should instead be on encouraging people to back their local Labour candidate in order to prevent Theresa May getting an enormous majority in the Commons.

John Pienaar
Pienaar’s Politics

Home Secretary Amber Rudd is dismissive about Labour's tax plans. She says they are "going back to type and want to tax aspiration... they'll start at £80,000 but blink and they'll bring it down again... same old Labour raising taxes."

It is then put to her that the Conservatives are not matching Labour's pledge to not increase taxes for anyone earning up to £80,000 a year. Ms Rudd says the Conservatives "are not ruling anything in or anything out" because they don't want to "restrict ourselves".

She adds "judge us on our record" and lists the tax cuts that have happened, saying "the Conservatives are the party of low taxation".