In his final question, Robinson asks Starmer what he would say to a voter who wonders whether they can trust a man who says he has changed “from the Brexit-hating, tax-raising, industry-nationalising, Corbyn-praising, self-declared socialist”.

Starmer brings up his work with Northern Ireland’s police force, before going on to lead the Crown Prosecution Service.

“I came in and led the Labour Party, I said I would change it to put it back in a position to win elections and over four and a half years, I’ve done it with a steely determination,” he says, adding that he has delivered in each leadership role he’s held.

And with that, the interview draws to a close. We’ll be wrapping up the key lines here, so stay with us.

Starmer is asked about his previous comments from 2019 relating to immigration, in which he had spoken in favour of defending the rights of migrants and free movement in the EU.

Starmer begins by talking about the EU, saying the UK has now left the bloc and “freedom of movement” is over.

“We’re not going back,” he says.

The UK needs fair and robust rules fairly applied to have “the managed immigration we need for this economy,” he says.

Robinson now asks Starmer that if Donald Trump was elected as US president later this year, would he be prepared to “stand alongside an American president and publicly say no Mr President”.

“I’ll deal with each situation as it arises,” he says.

“We don’t simply do what any other country asks us to do,” he responds.

He underlines that the UK has and will always have a “special relationship” with the US - whoever the president is.

Nick Robinson asks if Starmer is ready to “use British military power and to project that abroad”.

Starmer says he’s ready to take “whatever action we need to take to defend our country”.

Robinson refers to a statement Starmer made when running to get elected, in which he says there would be “no more illegal wars”.

Starmer tells him that at the time, he said he wouldn’t take military action “if there wasn’t a sound legal basis for it” and that was “absolutely right”.

Robinson says now that Starmer has a phrase about not putting taxes up for working people.

He says viewers have been in touch to say they don’t know what “working people” means.

Starmer says he’s referring to “people who pay their income tax, who pay National Insurance“.

He insists there will be no increases for income tax, national insurance and VAT “across the board”.

Robinson directly asks about a Capital Gains Tax increase. Starmer emphasises that none of his plans require tax increases outside of those set out already.

“Growth is the lever I intend to pull,” he says.

Starmer is shown a picture of him shaking hands with Jeremy Corbyn at the last election.

It’s put to him that he once expressed support for Corbyn, but now he criticises him and the manifesto Starmer himself supported.

Robinson asks that if Starmer didn’t mean what he said then, how can voters know he means what he says now. Starmer reiterates that he didn’t think Labour would win the last election.

Robinson then says that at that time, other Labour MPs decided not to be in the shadow cabinet.

“People took different positions, I accept that,” Starmer says, arguing Brexit was such an important issue - he was Corbyn’s shadow Brexit secretary - that he felt he needed to be there.

More now from a snippet we previewed earlier, where Robinson asks Starmer if he’s willing to make enemies on Brexit.

Starmer says he campaigned to remain, but the vote was to leave and that “we’re not going back into membership of the EU”.

He adds that we can do better than the “botched deal we got under Boris Johnson” and that “every business thinks that”.

The interview moves now to a line we brought you in our earlier post – in which he says he is prepared to make enemies to grow the economy.

“We’re going to have to be tough, we’re going to have to change the way things are done,” he tells Robinson.

He gives an anecdote of a chief executive of an energy company, who he asked how long it would take to build a wind turbine farm.

Starmer recalls that the chief executive told him “two years”, adding that they wouldn’t get any power out of it for 13 years because of the time taken for planning and to get the grid connected.

“We cannot go on like that,” Starmer says.

Robinson turns now to suggestions that Labour's plans will mean £18bn of public spending cuts.

“Will you say now that Labour under Sir Keir Starmer will not cut the courts, the prisons, the roads, council budgets, and so on?” he asks.

Starmer says that there will be a “cash injection straight away” into police, hospitals and schools. Our country is “not going back to austerity,” he adds.

Robinson is pressing Starmer now on Labour’s plan for two million extra NHS appointments a year.

He says given there were around 150 million appointments last year, two million isn’t very much.

Starmer tells him Labour’s plans will deliver “40,000 extra appointments and operations every single week”.

“That means that we can get that waiting list down, which is the best part of eight million,” he says.

Staying on the topic of Labour’s election pledges, Robinson puts it to Starmer that change is what his party promises to deliver – yet those detailed in its manifesto are “very small”.

Starmer says he doesn’t accept that, adding: “What we’ve set out in the manifesto is a plan for change, a plan to grow the economy”.

Robinson then moves on to Labour’s promise to recruit an extra 6,500 teachers, asking how many that that is per school over five years.

The Labour leader admits he hasn’t broken it down per school, to which Robinson interjects to says it is one extra teacher for every three schools.

In response, Starmer says that it is a “first step, a down payment” he hopes to take on day one in government, if his party wins the election. He explains that the “lack of teachers in specific subjects in secondary school” is a problem Labour is focused on.

Robinson starts off by saying that three weeks from today, Starmer could be spending his first night in No. 10.

“Are you ready?” he asks.

“Yes,” Starmer says, but insists that a seat has not yet been won and that he isn’t feeling complacent.

He discusses his party’s manifesto – which you can read more about here – saying it will create wealth and drive growth.

And we're off - watch along by tapping Play at the top of this page, and follow here as we bring you live updates.

Nick Robinson - who is a presenter on Radio 4's Today programme and spent a decade as the BBC's political editor - explains that everything recorded in this half-hour will be broadcast in full.

Robinson also tells viewers the Labour leader didn't see any of the questions he'll face in advance.

Chris Mason
Political editor

All Conservative candidates who asked for an endorsement from Boris Johnson have been given one, I am told.

A source close to the former prime minister told the BBC Johnson did not pick and choose who to offer support to, either in a video or written endorsement.

He is also "working in co-ordination with Conservative Campaign Headquarters", I understand, regarding any further campaigning plans.

Johnson’s spokesman said: “Boris Johnson has always said vote Conservative at every election and he continues to say that this time.”

The latest polls suggest support for Labour has dipped a bit but there's not any good news for the Conservatives, writes BBC senior political analyst Peter Barnes.

Labour's average has edged down to 42% on the BBC poll tracker, based on polls conducted over the past fortnight, but they retain their lead of around 20 points ahead of the Conservatives, who are down on 22%.

There's been a lot of attention paid to a YouGov poll, published on Thursday evening, which put Reform UK on 19%, one point ahead of the Conservatives. But that's just one poll.

Support for the Liberal Democrats has also edged up a little in the most recent polls but we still need to wait to see if that turns into a more sustained trend.

You can read the fully story and access our poll tracker here.

Anthony Reuben
BBC Verify

Over the past few weeks we've seen the Conservatives repeatedly accuse Labour of planning to raise taxes - a claim the Labour party denies. Now a Conservative ad on social media, external is claiming that “Labour’s Tax Trap Manifesto will drag family homes into capital gains tax for the first time in history”.

This tax is levied on the profit you make when you sell something that has increased in value.

You do not currently pay it when you sell your main home. But the Tories are implying – without providing evidence – that Labour is planning to change this.

Their claim appears to be based on last night’s ITV debate in which Conservative Penny Mordaunt asked Labour’s Angela Rayner whether she would rule out increasing capital gains tax which “would mean higher costs for families when they are selling their homes”.

She responded that Labour had ruled out raising income tax, VAT and National Insurance and that “there is nothing in our manifesto that means we have to raise capital gains tax”.

Before we get to the Panorama interview with Keir Starmer in just over an hour, Chris Mason, Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell are answering your questions in a special general election episode of Newscast.

It's part of the BBC's Your Voice, Your Vote initiative, which invites you to take part in our coverage and help inform our journalism.

You can follow along by pressing the Play button at the top of this page.

Starmer is also questioned about his plans for working with the EU if his party were to win the upcoming general election.

The Labour leader says he believes the country can do better than the “botched [post-Brexit trade] deal we got under Boris Johnson” and that “every business thinks that”.

He says he campaigned to remain, but the vote was to leave and that “we’re not going back into membership of the EU”.

Starmer also says if you look at problems for growth over the last 14 years, they were there before Brexit, adding that the idea there's a “single silver bullet” is not something that he’s willing to accept.