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Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Lord Brian Paddick has condemned Theresa May's plans to crack down on extremist content as "not practical".

She has placed an emphasis on the need for internet giants to make it more difficult to access extremist material in the wake of the Manchester bombing, and Home Secretary Amber Rudd has spoken about restricting encrypted platforms.

Lord Paddick told a Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) debate on home affairs: "For the Conservative Party to say they are going to legislate to not allow WhatsApp to have end-to-end encryption or to order Facebook to take down terrorist material - it is not practical to do so."

But Policing Minister Brandon Lewis said: "We've got to work with the internet companies to make sure that we can keep their customers safe and they play an important part in that.

"It's right for them, it's right for customers, and I think it is wrong to suggest that it is not right to keep a safe place for people and not allow terrorism and organised crime to have a safe haven for themselves."

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Shadow home secretary Diane Abbott has returned to the theme of whether warnings about Manchester bomber Salman Abedi were overlooked before last week's attack.

The BBC's Iain Watson reports that at a debate on policing and counter-terrorism in London, Ms Abbott said: "It is concerning that people drew attention to the Manchester bomber, perhaps this is something we can return to after the election."

She added that if the community gave such warnings "it was problematic if it isn't followed up" and again called for the Prevent programme - a key plank of the government's anti-radicalisation strategy - to be reviewed.

Her comments come despite police denials that there were calls to the anti-terrorist hotline in advance of the attack.

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Crossbencher Lord Green, the chair of the campaign group Migration Watch, says that the Conservatives are right to try to cut net migration numbers to less than 100,000.

He told BBC Radio 4's The World at One, that something has to be done, because the population is growing so rapidly at the moment that "we'll have to build a city the size of Liverpool every year" to accommodate it.

He added that if "you get net migration down to zero, you could still keep the people we've got, and replace any who left, so frankly a lot of this alarm is not necessary".

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Liberal Democrat candidate Sir Vince Cable has admitted that his party has failed so far to break through, in terms of the polls, but he dismissed the suggestion that leader Tim Farron is to blame.

Sir Vince tells the World at One that Mr Farron has been "energising the party, membership is at record levels [and] there is a great deal of enthusiasm.

"So no, I don't think this is a leadership issue."

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Lydia Bright, known for her past role in ITV's The Only Way is Essex, looked at cliques in politics and society, when she joined Andrew Neil, Ed Balls and Michael Gove on BBC1's This Week, as she prepares to leave the reality TV programme.

If you've been enjoying the sunshine and wondering about the latest news from the election campaign - fear not. Here's a round-up of the day's activities so far...

• US President Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the 2015 Paris climate agreement has prompted international dismay - and anger in the UK
• Theresa May says she expressed her "disappointment" at the decision in a phone call with Donald Trump
• But the PM's failure to add her name to a joint statement issued by fellow European leaders pledging to keep up the fight on climate change prompted Jeremy Corbyn to accuse her of "subservience"
• Craig Mackinlay, the Conservative candidate for South Thanet, is charged with allegedly overspending in the 2015 general election campaign
• Mr Mackinlay, who is running again on 8 June, stands accused under the Representation of the People Act 1983, alongside his election agent Nathan Gray and party activist Marion Little
• Jeremy Corbyn pledges to "drive growth across the whole of Britain" and create a million "good jobs" if Labour wins power next week
• The Conservatives deny there is any confusion in their immigration policy after Theresa May signals she wants to cut numbers to less than 100,000 a year by 2022
• The man who lost the contest to lead Britain's biggest trade union has lodged an official complaint about the result.

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The Observer's Andrew Rawnsley rolls out the cricket puns to review the closing days in the campaign for the 2017 general election campaign.

He looks at claims over political sticky wickets and which politicians are the best bowlers as the UK picks a new PM and governing party.

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The US withdrawal from the Paris climate accord is a 'massive expenditure for trivial results' UKIP energy spokesman, Roger Helmer, tells Radio 4's World at One.

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Sir Vince Cable has claimed no-one in the cabinet other than Theresa May backed a target of cutting net migration to the tens of thousands during the years of Conservative and Lib Dem coalition government.

The Liberal Democrat, who was business secretary from 2010 to 2015 when Theresa May was home secretary, told the World at One:

"You can't just capture immigration in one number," he argued. "We're talking about totally different types of people."

He thinks it is "important to assure people that it is managed" but does not think doing so is incompatible with single market membership as it is possible to "pragmatically control immigration in certain areas".

Germany does not allow free movement of professionals, he said, and Switzerland, though not an EU member, has an arrangement with the single market meaning that you need to have a job offer in order to move there.

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Former Labour leader Ed Miliband has said "Theresa May is sending a signal that she is weak and feeble and spineless" by not properly criticising President Trump for pulling the US out of the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

Mr Miliband, who was also climate change secretary under Gordon Brown until 2010, told Martha Kearney: "If ever there was a moment when Britain needed a strong leader it was now and it turns out we've got an incredibly weak one who is missing in action."

He said that the reason a British response matters is that "the Paris agreement was a fragile thing and a hard thing to negotiate" and it's important that the rest of the world now says that the US is "a pariah of the international community" for withdrawing.

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Theresa May has signalled that she wants to cut net migration numbers to less than 100,000 a year by 2022 but would not commit firmly to that timetable.

"That will take time," she said. "We haven't set a timetable out in our manifesto. Of course we want to do it as soon as we can but we have to keep working at this."

BBC Reality Check correspondent Chris Morris says nobody counts "every single person in and out" but about 1.75m net came to the UK during the Conservatives' period in power between 2010 and 2017.

Last week, the most recent set of figures, showing net migration at 248,000, was "quite a big fall from the previous year".

This was mainly because of a "rise in the number of EU citizens leaving the UK", Chris says.

They work "in all sectors of the economy", ranging from people who work in the City to people who work on building sites and in the NHS.

For every thousand staff in the NHS, 877 are British, 55 are from elsewhere in the EU and the remainder are from elsewhere in the world.

If migration came down sharply, the NHS might ask: "Where do we get this next generation of labour from?"

Also, 41% of last year's arrivals were students and taking them out of the figures, which some want to do, would mean "a big fall already" but the government has ruled that out so far.

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Roger Helmer, UKIP's energy spokesman and an MEP, says he is "delighted" that Donald Trump has walked away from the Paris Agreement on climate change.

He tells BBC Radio 4's World at One programme that there "are increasing questions about the theory of manmade global warming".

If the Paris deal is implemented, it would cost "hundreds of trillions of dollars by the end of the century", he says, adding that on Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change calculations this will only hold down temperatures by 0.3 degrees.

"It's a massive, massive expenditure for an almost trivial result," he said, stressing that this represented a "vast mis-allocation of resources".

President Trump has realised the emperor has no clothes, "and he has the courage to say that", he adds.

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Sinn Fein's John O'Dowd says his party will not be going into coalition with the Labour Party in the event of a hung Parliament.

Instead, he says he expects Labour to have discussions with the SNP and other parties if the Conservatives fail to win an outright majority.

Sinn Fein MPs will not be abandoning their historic boycott of Westminster to take up their seats in the future or taking the oath of allegiance, he says.

He argues that unification of Ireland would be a solution to Brexit because the Republic remains a member of the EU.

He says billions of pounds of cross-border trade which is currently tariff free between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland would be at risk if a "hard border" emerges post-Brexit.

Theresa May has signalled she is "weak, feeble and spineless" over her failure to confront Donald Trump over his decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement on climate change, former Labour leader Ed Miliband has said.

Mr Miliband, who was a former climate change secretary, dismissed the PM's assertion that she is disappointed over the US president's position.

"Disappointment is when your football team loses a match - it's not when somebody makes a devastating decision like this," he said.

He contrasted the leadership styles of German chancellor Angela Merkel, who described Mr Trump's move as unwise, foolish, disappointing and wrong, with Mrs May who "fails to come out and properly criticise Trump".

"The reason this matters is the signal it sends about British leadership," Mr Milliband told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme. "And Theresa May is sending a signal that she is weak and feeble and spineless."

He argues that American leadership on climate change is "so important" for future generations because the US and China are the two biggest emitters.

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Theresa May has defended her decision not to join other EU leaders in signing a document condemning Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change.

She told the BBC:

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BBC correspondent Danny Shaw joins the World at One after the Conservative candidate for South Thanet, Craig Mackinlay, was charged for alleged overspending in the 2015 general election campaign.

"Jeremy Corbyn has decided not to make any political capital out of this, saying it is a judicial process," Danny says.

However, UKIP's Nigel Farage "has not had that kind of restraint", suggesting that the chance of anyone voting for Mr Mackinlay now are "slim".

In a statement the Conservative Party said that other candidates had been cleared over "politically motivated and unfounded complaints".

Leader Theresa May has said: "Craig Mackinlay is innocent until proven guilty and he remains our candidate."

Danny says that Mr Mackinlay would face a maximum sentence of a year in prison if he is found guilty. If he wins the seat in the forthcoming election and is convicted, he would have to step down and a by-election would take place.