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Election debate: reaction and analysis after Jeremy Corbyn and party leaders spar – as it happened

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Rudd says she is proud to be representing the prime minister. When it is put to her that May should be here, she says Corbyn only decided to come today. She says four out of five Labour MPs voted no confidence in Corbyn.

Corbyn says 300,000 people elected him to lead his party and he is proud to lead it.

Lucas says the first rule of leadership is to show up. She says you should not call an election and then not turn up.

Question 6 - Leadership

Q: How does your leadership have the talent to take this country forward?

Corbyn says leadership is about being able to listen, not being high and mighty, being prepared to learn, and leading for everyone. It is about saying we cannot go on like this. We don’t have to have a spiv economy.

Nuttall says he has not changed his stance on anything. He says he would be strong going into the Brexit negotiations.

Wood asks Nuttall if he would refuse to pay his dues if he was going through a real divorce. Nuttall says the UK has a lot of money tied up in the EU. Wood replies:

We all know about blokes like you.

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Corbyn says we should adhere to the climate change agreement. And we should press the American people and their government to adhere to it as well.

Rudd says she is “disappointed” that the Americans are pulling out of the climate change agreement.

Tell him he’s wrong, Wood says.

That is not quite how diplomacy works, says Rudd.

Question 5 - Climate change and Trump

Q: How would you deal with President Trump pulling out of the Paris climate change agreement?

Farron says there is no bigger threat to the world. This is not just an issue for hair-shirt Guardian readers.

Lucas thanks the questioner. She says the Greens have been trying to get the election to focus on climate change for six weeks with no luck.

With Trump, we should ignore him, she says. She says the move to carbon-free energy is happening anyway.

We need to see no fracking, she says.

Nuttall says Trump is doing what he set out to do.

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Nuttall says he would put British lives over the rights of terrorists.

Robertson says someone asked about terrorism, and Nuttall went straight for Muslims. But it wasn’t a Muslim who killed Jo Cox. And it was not a Muslim who killed the children in Norway.

Corbyn attacks Nuttall for singling out Muslim. “You invited Hamas,” Nuttall shouts back at him.

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