Election debate: reaction and analysis after Jeremy Corbyn and party leaders spar – as it happened
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Wed 31 May 2017 17.45 EDT
First published on Wed 31 May 2017 01.38 EDT- Summary
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- Closing statements
- Question 6 - Leadership
- Question 5 - Climate change and Trump
- Question 4 - Security
- Question 3 - Public services
- Question 2 - Brexit
- Question 1 - Living standards
- Opening statements
- BBC Election debate
- Afternoon summary
- DUP leader Arlene Foster urges voters to put border poll plan 'off the agenda for generations'
- May gives four reasons for not debating Corbyn
- May's Q&A
- Theresa May's speech
- Tories confirm May will not take part in tonight's debate
- Corbyn accuses May of treating voters 'with contempt' because she won't debate
- Corbyn announces surprise decision to take part in tonight's TV election debate
- Corbyn expected to take part in tonight's TV election debate
- Labour's press conference – summary
- May claims Labour favours uncontrolled immigration
- Jeremy Corbyn's press conference
- Jeremy Hunt's Today interview
- Jonathan Ashworth's Today interview
- Welsh (not quite) leaders' debate
- The Snap: your election briefing
Nuttall says we should not be afraid of calling Islamist extremism what it is - Islamist extremism.
He says people who go abroad to fight for Islamic State should not be allowed to return.
And he says that the Muslim community is not doing enough to report extremism. He says only one in eight referrals to Prevent come from Muslims.
Lucas says it it outrageous to suggest that the terrorists are representative of the Muslim community.
Why is Britain the second biggest arms dealer in the world, she asks.
Rudd says we need the right legislation to defeat terrorism. She says she is shocked that Corbyn boasted about voting against every piece of anti-terror legislation.
Corbyn says Theresa May voted with him against anti-terror legislation in 2005. And David Davis did too. He says there must be judicial oversight for these powers.
Question 4 - Security
Q: What are your priorities for making Britain a safer country and the world a safer place?
Robertson says the SNP want more police. He says it is dangerous to make an argument about safety and foreign policy. But it is right to question foreign interventions. He says the government has spent more money bombing places than rebuilding them.
Corbyn says we need more police officers. We need to do more to address cyber threats. And he says it is a mistake to leave large spaces of the world ungoverned.
Husain asks if Corbyn is saying the attack in Manchester would not have happened if it had not been for the police cuts.
Corbyn says that is not what he is saying.
Farron says Theresa May wants a blank cheque to do whatever she wants on issues like social care payments. Don’t give her that blank cheque, he says.
Husain asks about the Lib Dem policy on the NHS. He says to him the NHS is personal. His mum had ovarian cancer. It it personal to everyone else too. Have we got the best funded NHS? No, he says. He says the Lib Dems would put an extra 1p on income tax.
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