Parties are back on the campaign trail, with the Tories pushing a permanent cut to stamp duty, Labour outlining its position on business rates, and the Lib Dems pledging three new national parks
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey is in Newbury where he took part in game of tennis, before criticising Rishi Sunak over his decision to leave D-Day events early
The SNP leader John Swinney also hit out at the PM's actions, saying they had "completely destroyed" his credibility
Sunak has apologised and said leaving the event early was a "mistake"
Meanwhile, the PM met volunteers in Bishop Auckland, while Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was campaigning at a brewery in north London with Dragons Den star Deborah Meaden
Saturday's campaigning follows a seven-way BBC debate where parties locked horns over the economy, armed forces, NHS, immigration and climate policy
Labour's Angela Rayner clashed with Penny Mordaunt after the Conservative minister repeated the contested £2,000 tax rise claim about Labour
The figure was a focus of early interviews on Saturday, with the Tories standing by the figure and Labour again branding it "misleading"
General election 2024: Nigel Farage critical of PM's early exit from D-Day commemorations
Penny Mordaunt says she doesn't want D-Day to become a political football.
Farage interrupts to say it already has, and if Sunak's instinct was the same of British people "he wouldn't have contemplated for a moment not being there for the big international ceremony".
Rhun ap Iorwerth adds that what we saw was "panic" from the prime minister.
Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth says yesterday was a sobering day again, remembering the sacrifices on the Normandy beaches. He says Sunak should not have prioritised his political future and a photo opportunity over the commemorations.
Iorwerth continues, saying the armed forces need to be properly funded and looked after - and £200bn should not be spent on a new nuclear deterrent.
Henry Zeffman
Chief political correspondent
The first question – about defence in the context of the D-Day anniversary – could not have been better suited to the story of the day.
Angela Rayner and the Liberal Democrats’ Daisy Cooper both gave answers which did not refer to today’s controversy.
So it was Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, who threw the issue onto the Conservatives. He said Rishi Sunak’s “dreadful” decision to leave early showed “we actually have a very unpatriotic prime minister”.
Penny Mordaunt did not deflect, saying that what Sunak did was “completely wrong” and that he had “rightly apologised”.
But strikingly she did not follow up, as some other Conservatives have today, by then praising Sunak’s record on veterans and on defence.
Stephen Flynn for the SNP confirms that his party is against maintaining the nuclear deterrent - he says money is better spent on conventional defence forces and adds that we have seen in Europe how vital those are.
He reiterates the need to stand with veterans and make sure the military is "fully funded", among other actions.
Carla Denyer from the Greens starts by focusing on the issues faced by former members of the UK armed forces, saying "it's a tragedy that so many veterans then struggle in life" after they leave the military.
She initially seeks to pivot away from the debate about the size of the armed forces and the nuclear deterrent, focusing instead on the threat posed by cyber-attacks and climate change.
Pushed by Husain on defence spending, she declines to commit to the pledge made by Labour and the Conservatives to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP, saying the UK is already meeting the Nato threshold of 2%.
Image source, PA MediaIn response, Rayner says Labour is absolutely clear that the UK will keep its nuclear deterrent.
Mordaunt interrupts to say if enemies don't believe the weapons will be used, the deterrent effect does not work.
Rayner replies to say the Conservatives are the ones who have cut the armed forces, leaving the country a "laughing stock internationally".
Mordaunt and Rayner clash over nuclear deterrent funding
Mordaunt next takes aim at Labour's Rayner for voting to end Trident, the country's nuclear deterrent.
Mordaunt brings up Russian President Vladimir Putin, and says if you're doubting Labour would use that force - "imagine what Putin is thinking".
"Without credibility, we become a target", Mordaunt says.
For context: A dozen of Labour's current front bench team voted against renewing Trident in 2016 under Jeremy Corbyn, including Angela Rayner.
Penny Mordaunt of the Conservatives addresses Rishi Sunak leaving the D-Day ceremonies early, saying it was "completely wrong" and he was right to apologise.
Next is Nigel Farage from Reform UK.
He says the army has shrunk and recruitment is "catastrophic".
Farage says instead of the Tories' national service policy we need to recruit 30,000 into the army full-time.
He also criticised Rishi Sunak for leaving the D-Day events in Normandy early yesterday.
For context: Sunak has been accused of dereliction of duty for leaving an event held to honour the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings early. He has apologised.
Daisy Cooper, the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, also starts by vowing to maintain the UK's nuclear deterrent.
She also attacks cuts to the number of troops in the armed forces, saying the Lib Dems would reverse that trend.
Cooper also pledges to increase defence spending "year-on-year" to reach 2.5% of GDP by the end of the forthcoming parliament.
Labour's Angela Rayner is the first up, thanking Francis.
She says Labour is committed to the triple-lock on the UK's nuclear deterrent, which means all four submarines will be built in Barrow.
Rayner adds that Labour is committed to meeting a target of defence spending at 2.5% of GDP, as well as improving accommodation for members of the armed forces.
The first question comes from Francis who says that as we celebrate D-Day and remember those, like his father, who served the country, how will the parties ensure our army is ready and the UK is safe from another major conflict?
The seven politicians here tonight will be answering questions from the audience (and some sent in by the public) for the next hour and a half.
At the end of the debate, they will give 30-second closing statements.
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Malu Cursino
Reporting from debate spin room
The spin room has had a constant buzz and sense of excitement ever since we arrived.
But moments after it was announced that the big TVs across the room would soon switch over to the debate, the room has gone eerily quiet.
It's nearly time to listen to what representatives from the seven political parties taking part in tonight's debate have to say.
It's just 10 minutes until the BBC's first election debate between seven representatives of Britain's biggest political parties begins.
As a reminder, we'll be bringing you all the key lines and moments from the debate here and you can watch along by hitting Play at the top of the page and via BBC One and BBC News.
Tom Symonds
Home affairs correspondent, with the Conservative election bus
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been heckled during a speech in Wiltshire by a GP who claimed she had not been able to find work because NHS doctors were being replaced by pharmacists.
Dr Jane Lees-Millais shouted to Sunak that she was "currently unemployed because of your policies”.
She said funding shortages had resulted in lesser-qualified people being used to conduct consultations which are “massively complex".
“Most people we see over the age of 40 have at least six different diseases going on at once. They cannot be coped with by half-qualified staff,” she shouted.
Sunak responded that his father had been a GP and his mum a pharmacist.
The Conservatives are allowing patients to get treatments from pharmacists to reduce the pressure on GPs.
He told Dr Lees-Millais: “I will respectfully disagree with you because I do think it is right that people can now see their pharmacists to get medicines for seven common ailments like sore throats, ear infections and sinusitis making it easier for people to get the care they need."
Henry Zeffman
Chief political correspondent
It was always going to be difficult being the Conservative representative on stage this evening.
The six other parties at the podiums range widely across the political spectrum, but they all share an interest in fervently attacking the government.
Penny Mordaunt’s task is made especially hard tonight, though, because the debate is taking place hot on the back of what even cabinet ministers are acknowledging is Rishi Sunak’s biggest misstep of this campaign – perhaps even his political career.
So the task facing Mordaunt is not just to find a way to respond to the D-Day gaffe, drawing the sting of the attacks from wherever on the stage they come – and they will surely come.
But also to find a way to land blows on her opponents, even though doing so to Labour’s Angela Rayner will require a different approach to the SNP’s Stephen Flynn or Reform’s Nigel Farage.
No pressure then.
There is a buzz of activity in the radio theatre that is being transformed into the debate stage this evening at the BBC's London Broadcasting House.
Our colleague Hannah Miller snuck inside for a sneak peek ahead of the big event. Take a look:
A sneak preview inside the BBC debate studio
Sean Seddon
Reporting from debate spin room
Less than an hour to go and Treasury Secretary Laura Trott and Northern Ireland Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris have just entered the spin room.
It's not been a vintage day for the Tory campaign but the party is here mob-handed tonight.