Sam Hancock
Live page editor

It's been a busy day, with various announcements from various party leaders.

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey unveiled his party's manifesto ahead of the general election on 4 July. It pledges to boost spending on health and social care in England by more than £9bn by 2028, with Davey saying money would come from increasing tax on big banks, water companies and fossil fuel firms.

Meanwhile, Douglas Ross, the Scottish Conservatives leader, revealed that he'll stand down from the role after the election - and resign as an MSP if he's re-elected to Westminster. It follows a row over him standing as a candidate for Aberdeenshire North and Moray East instead of David Duguid, who has been in hospital and was in effect de-selected.

And we heard from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak when he sat down with Nick Robinson, kicking off a series of interviews that the BBC's doing in the run up to polling day. Among other things, he acknowledged that owning a home had become harder under the Conservatives - but said he wanted "to make sure it's easier".

He also said his party's manifesto - being published tomorrow - would contain further tax cuts and repeated an apology following backlash after he prematurely left D-Day commemoration events in Normandy last week.

We'll be back tomorrow to do it all again - see you then.

As another day of election coverage comes to an end, here's a look at what's been happening:

• In a BBC interview, Rishi Sunak said it's harder for people to have their own home under a Conservative government. He also defended his record as prime minister and said he hoped people would "find it within their hearts" to forgive him for leaving D-Day events early
• Labour's Angela Rayner, responding to Sunak's comments on housing, said it was a "damning indictment of 14 years of housing failure"
• Earlier, Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey launched his party's manifesto with a promise to "save the NHS" - he pledged to recruit 8,000 more GPs, give unpaid carers a right to paid carers' leave from work and introduce free personal care in England
• Announcing a new policy, Labour said it would create more than 3,000 new nurseries for 100,000 children in England
• Elsewhere, Douglas Ross announced he'll stand down as the Scottish Conservative leader after the election
• And a Reform UK candidate apologised for claiming the country would be "far better" if it had "taken Hitler up on his offer of neutrality" instead of fighting the Nazis in World War Two. Ian Gribbin, the party's candidate in Bexhill and Battle, also wrote online that women were the "sponging gender" and should be "deprived of health care"

During his BBC interview today, Rishi Sunak confirmed the Conservative manifesto - which is set to be published tomorrow - will include a promise of more tax cuts.

Watch what he had to say below, and read more about it here:

Lib Dem sums 'look to be inadequate' - think tankpublished at 21:56 British Summer Time 10 June

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The Liberal Democrats' big offer on health involves free personal care for older or disabled people at home in England. But their sums on how much this will cost "look to be inadequate", according to the health think tank the Nuffield Trust.

The Lib Dems believe that half of this policy's running costs in 2029 will be covered by existing government plans to pay for more of people's personal care.

The government had promised to pay for some or all of your care costs above £86,000 (depending on how much you have in assets and savings).

But that policy has been delayed until at least October 2025 so the Lib Dems would be paying the full whack in year one. Eventually, the gap between the two policies would shrink.

The government's current plans build up gradually to roughly half the cost of the Lib Dems' new plan after about five years.

But in the first few years of paying for personal care for everyone, the Lib Dems would be running up a hefty extra bill that they haven't accounted for in their figures.

In the latest Newscast election special, Adam Fleming, Chris Mason and Vicki Young look into the Liberal Democrat manifesto launch, including the pledge of £8bn for health and care services in England.

Plus, they react to the first in a series of interviews with party leaders as Nick Robinson sits down with Rishi Sunak

Listen now and for the rest of the campaign.

Nick Robinson
Presenter, Radio 4 Today

During our conversation, Sunak vigorously defended his claim that Labour's promises will add up to a big tax bill for every household in the country.

What you sense is he knows is that whatever he says, he is carrying his party's burden after 14 years in office.

During that period, there have been five prime ministers. Cameron and May were brought down by Brexit, Johnson for lying about parties and Truss for almost crashing the economy.

Image source, Reuters

Sunak's plea is that people should think about the future, not the past. They should think about what he has done so far. They should compare him with Keir Starmer.

His real frustration is with natural Tories who are flirting with voting for Nigel Farage. I suggested to him that some Conservatives see the leader of Reform UK as like a Sunday roast with all the trimmings, while he is viewed as more of a quinoa salad.

Sunak sees himself as the most Conservative leader of his party since Margaret Thatcher. He has just 24 days to get that message across.

Missed the Rishi Sunak interview?

You can watch the prime minister being grilled by the BBC's Nick Robinson on iPlayer by clicking here.

Nick Robinson
Presenter, Radio 4 Today

Sitting across a studio from Rishi Sunak, I could feel his frustration. He thinks he's got a good story to tell if only people would listen.

NHS waiting lists are now coming down, he says, even though they are - as I pointed out - higher than when he first promised to cut them and have gone up under all five Conservative prime ministers over the past 14 years.

The number of immigrants coming here legally is now starting to come down, Sunak says, even though - as I pointed out - net migration amounted to twice the population of Coventry in the year after he became prime minister and every one of his predecessors have promised and failed to control our borders.

Image source, Reuters

Sunak is promising more tax cuts and no spending cuts despite warnings from independent experts that all parties are ignoring an £18 billion hole in the public finances.

He insists that the cuts to national insurance have ensured that "an ordinary average worker... faces the lowest average tax rate that they have faced in over half a century" despite the fact that he added £93 billion to the annual tax bill - much of it on business and higher earners - as chancellor and prime minister.

Is Sunak's claim about reading levels in England right?published at 20:31 British Summer Time 10 June

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During that interview we heard Sunak say English children are “the best readers in the western world”.

This claim, however, depends on which international reading assessment is used.

England does rank highest among western countries in the 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), external. This study – which is carried out every five years – tests reading skills of 10-year-olds.

However, a different picture emerges if looking at the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) study. Pisa focuses on 15-16 year olds and in their 2022 latest assessment England is behind Ireland, Canada, and the United States, external.

Finally, Nick Robinson asks Rishi Sunak whether he thinks the Conservatives deserve another five years in power. He says many viewers have been contacting the BBC saying that "nothing works - they can't get GP and dentist appointments, the trains don't run on time, sewage gets pumped into the rivers".

Sunak says Robinson has failed to mention the Conservative education reform - "our children are the best readers in the Western world" - and repeats that this election is about the future and building on the progress already made.

He lists promises that he's been making during this interview and the election campaign (such as the enhanced pension triple lock, migration coming down and getting to net zero), again attacking Labour for asking for a "blank cheque" without making clear which taxes will be raised.

Robinson then lists the "broken promises" of previous Tory prime ministers, to which Sunak says no government gets everything right - but says "I am proud of what's been achieved over the last 14 years".

And with that, the BBC's first leader interview of this campaign draws to a close. Stay tuned for more analysis.

Robinson suggests Sunak - when focusing on the deposit for a house - seems to be talking about people who, "like you", can afford to leave home and aren't worried about tax cuts.

"No, actually, when I speak to people, it is the deposit that worries people," Sunak says, adding that most people "earn enough to cover a mortgage payment - but the struggle is saving up for a deposit".

He says that "saddling young people with higher taxes" will only make that higher, repeating his disputed claim that Labour will do so by £2,000.

"I think people working hard should be able to keep more of their money," Sunak adds.

As we heard earlier, Sunak is pushed on the government's record on housing.

Robinson puts it to Sunak that young people are being forced to live at home with their parents for longer because "they can't afford the rent, let alone buy a house".

"Having your own home has got harder under a Conservative government, hasn't it?" Nick Robinson says, to which Sunak replies: "It has got harder, and I want to make sure that it's easier.

"What we will do is not just build homes in the right places... but make sure that we support young people into great jobs so they can save for that deposit".

Robinson suggests that the prime minister is offering voters lots of new "treats", while insisting spending won't have to come down and taxes won't rise.

He asks if Sunak is possibly starting to sound "a bit like [former prime minister] Liz Truss", who resigned after less than 50 days in office when she and her chancellor introduced a £45bn package of unfunded tax cuts - including a cut to the top rate of income tax - which panicked the markets.

"Not at all, actually," Sunak says, adding that his plans would be funded by a crack down on tax evasion and avoidance, as well as reforms to the welfare system.

Now Sunak is asked if he'll acknowledge that his government will need to cut spending in order to meet the policy plans that have been set out.

"No, that's not what our plans show," he says.

He says public spending will grow and "will continue to be at record levels" ahead of inflation.

Robinson reminds Sunak and viewers that independent bodies such as the Office for Budget Responsibility have described government pencilled-in post-election plans as a "work of fiction".

Sunak says the £2,000 figure is a result of 27 policies being "totted up" - 21 of which he says "are produced by independent Treasury officials". He says three come from "other government sources", two from "the Labour Party themselves" and one from "an independent investment bank".

Robinson says the way the figure was presented - as though it would happen over a year, rather than four - is not something "any economist" would do, to which Sunak insists Labour would hike taxes and he doesn't want to see that happen.

Starmer last week accused Sunak of lying over the claim.

For context: BBC Verify previously analysed the Conservatives' £2,000 tax claim and concluded that they risked misleading people - read more here.

Robinson now turns to a row that developed last week after the first TV debate of the election campaign between Sunak and Starmer.

During the debate, Sunak said Labour would raise taxes by £2,000 and that the figure had been costed by "independent Treasury officials". The Treasury's top civil servant went on to distance his department from the figure.

Asked why he's continuing to quote the number, when the UK statistics watchdog has called it misleading, Sunak says "because it's right - and the choice at this election is clear: we're going to keep cutting people's taxes... the Labour Party are going to keep putting taxes up".

Tax rate on the average worker is indeed relatively lowpublished at 20:19 British Summer Time 10 June

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The prime minister just told Nick Robinson: "Right now an average worker is facing the lowest tax rate on their earnings in half a century."

This is correct. The Resolution Foundation think tank pointed out, external after the the 4p cut in National Insurance, the typical employee from April 2024 will be "facing a lower effective tax rate than at any time since at least 1975".

However, those rates are predicted to rise in the coming years as a result of frozen tax thresholds.

Paul Johnson from the IFS think tank wrote a piece, external explaining how the average worker is paying such a low rate of direct tax (that's income tax and National Insurance) when the overall amount of tax raised by the government is approaching record levels.

He said part of that is down to money raised through indirect tax (such as the sales tax VAT), which has been boosted by recent high inflation.

But he also said that high earners had seen big increases in their taxes. The top 1% of earners pay 29% of all income tax now, compared with 25% in 2010.

And lower earners are being hit by the freezing of the point at which they start paying tax.

You can read more about it here.

There's a heated back and forth now about tax, with Robinson cutting in to say people are set to pay more income tax under Tory plans and again asks how the prime minister can say he's cutting taxes.

Sunak repeats his claim that the "average worker is facing the lowest tax rate in over 50 years", to which Robinson says Sunak is talking about tax thresholds, describing the claims as "convenient".

The PM then interrupts to say that it's tax thresholds combined with the rate, and that rate is the "lowest it has been for 50 years".

Robinson asks Sunak whether he's "got a bit of a nerve" going after Labour on taxes, considering the total tax bill under Sunak - first as chancellor, then as prime minister - has gone up by "£93bn a year".

The pandemic and energy crisis have been big factors, the PM says, insisting it was right for the government to intervene and help people who needed it at the time.

"But now, taxes are being cut - the average tax rate faced by a typical person in work is the lowest it's been in over half a century," he tells Robinson.

• Remember, you can watch the interview live on BBC One or on iPlayer, or by tapping Play at the top of this page

Robinson puts to Sunak that the Tories have proposed several expensive election policies and asks whether they've found a "magic money tree".

Sunak says all his policies would be "fully funded and costed", prompting Robinson to ask if his party manifesto - which will be released tomorrow - will announce further tax cuts.

Sunak replies: "We will have a manifesto... that, yes, does continue to cut people's taxes - because I believe in a country where people's hard work is rewarded."