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All the day’s campaign news, as the Conservative and Labour leaders appear on BBC1’s Question Time and the Guardian comes out for Labour

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Fri 2 Jun 2017 19.26 EDTFirst published on Fri 2 Jun 2017 01.34 EDT
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Corbyn accuses May of 'subservience to Trump' over climate change and failing to show leadership

Jeremy Corbyn is giving his industrial policy speech.

He starts by criticising Theresa May for not joining the other European G7 countries (France, Germany and Italy) in signing the joint statement criticising President Trump for pulling out of the Paris climate change deal.

Donald Trump’s decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate change deal is reckless and dangerous. The commitments made in Paris are vital to stop the world reaching the point of no return on climate change, and there can be no question of watering them down.

The Paris deal should not be up for renegotiation. The other three European members of the G7, France, Germany and Italy, have written to Donald Trump to make this clear.

So why does Theresa May not have her name on this joint statement?

Given the chance to present a united front from our international partners, she has instead opted for silence and once again subservience to Donald Trump. It’s a dereliction of both her duty to her country and our duty to our planet. This is not the type of leadership Britain needs to negotiate Brexit or stand up to defend our planet in an era of climate change. A Labour government would do it very differently.

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Jeremy Corbyn is due to give a speech on industrial policy shortly.

According to the extract released overnight, Corbyn will say that a Labour government would create “at least one million good jobs” by promoting investment across the country. Rebecca Long-Bailey, the shadow business secretary, will be speaking alongside Corbyn and she will say:

Unlike the Conservatives, Labour will make full use of all policy levers to drive growth and economic development, working in partnership with the private sector and trade unions to rebalance our economy so that it serves the many, not just the few.

Labour’s industrial strategy will have real muscle, powered by our National Transformation Fund and £250bn of investment from our new National Investment Bank and network of Regional Development Banks.

We will deliver a million good jobs over the course of the next parliament.

The Lib Dems claim Conservative policy on immigration is in “chaos” in the light of David Davis’s latest comments. (See 8.09am.) This is from Brian Paddick, the Lib Dems’ home affairs spokesman.

Theresa May and David Davis can’t both be right - which one is telling us the truth? This is a ludicrous policy that would cause enormous damage to our economy and devastate our public services like the NHS who rely on migrant workers.

Theresa May as home secretary continuously failed to meet this target, a pattern she has continued in Number 10.

This is pure immigration chaos for the Conservatives. If they can’t even agree amongst themselves, how can we trust them to present a united front in the Brexit negotiations that will start in the weeks following the election.

SNP deputy leader Angus Robertson is on course to lose his seat in the election according to analysis of a new poll. As the Press Association reports, the survey, carried out for the Herald by BMG, puts support for the SNP at 43%, 13 points above the Scottish Conservatives on 30%.

It has Labour on 18%, the Liberal Democrats at 5% and the Scottish Greens at 2%, after “don’t knows” have been excluded.

According to the Electoral Calculus projector, the SNP would lose seats to the Tories.

Constituencies the Scottish Conservatives would seize include Aberdeen South, Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine, Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, as well as Dumfries and Galloway, the analysis suggests.

Robertson, who is standing for re-election in Moray, would not be re-elected, projections suggest, while shadow SNP Westminster group leader Peter Wishart would also lose his seat of Perth and North Perthshire.

The survey, which was carried out before the Manchester bomb attack, claims the number of Scottish Tory MPs would rise from one to eight.

UPDATE: The fieldwork for the poll was carried out between 12 and 18 May, so opinion may have shifted since then.

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Q: You are no fan of Corbyn. When he ran against Owen Jones for the Labour leadership, you said he was not up to the job.

Dugdale points out that Robinson means Owen Smith, not Owen Jones, the Guardian columnist. Robinson apologises.

Dugdale says there was a leadership election. She accepts the result. She says those most in need of a Labour government are most enthusiastic about his leadership.

Q: What will happen if there is a minority government?

Dugdale says Labour would put forward a programme and a budget. It would be up to the SNP to decide whether or not to support it.

And that’s it.

Kezia Dugdale's Today interview

Nick Robinson is now interviewing Kezia Dugdale, the Scottish Labour leader.

Q: Are you seeing a Corbyn surge?

Dugdale says the Labour vote is definitely edging up.

Q: Corbyn is focusing on issues that are devolved to Scotland.

Dugdale says there is “tangible anger” in Scotland about the prospect of a second independence referendum.

Q: People opposed to a second referendum think it is the Tories who are speaking up against this.

Dugdale says she does not accept this. She says it is Tory decisions in Westminster that have angered Scots and boosted the case for independence.

Q: Your position is ambiguous. Your manifesto opposes a second referendum. But Corbyn has said the Scots have the right to have one.

Dugdale says Corbyn has been clear. He opposes one.

Q: But every time he comes to Scotland he says something ambiguous, and you have to clear up the mess. If Corbyn led a government, could you guarantee there would be no second referendum?

Dugdale says Corbyn has been clear: Labour is against one, because of the austerity it would cause.

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This is from Alan Roden, communications director for Scottish Labour, responding to Nicola Sturgeon’s comment about how she would expect to have talks with Labour about supporting it on an issue-by-issue basis in the event of a hung parliament.

Sturgeon hasn't been listening. There will be absoutely no talks between Labour and the SNP. The SNP isn't a progressive party. #radio4

— Alan Roden (@AlanRoden) June 2, 2017

Q: How many election campaigns have you fought?

Sturgeon says she has been SNP leader for two and a half years, and has fought four elections.

Q: One of your candidates has put out an advert saying this election is not about independence.

Sturgeon says she wants the people of Scotland to have a choice about the future at the end of the Brexit process.

Q: Scottish voters are saying they don’t want a referendum soon because the Scottish economy is not doing well. Shouldn’t you be worrying about that?

Sturgeon says there are many reasons to be positive about Scotland’s economy. Unemployment is lower than in the rest of the UK, and productivity is growing more quickly.

That’s it.

Q: You are never going to be in a stronger position. You have as many MPs as you could want. But you are irrelevant in Westminster. Why shouldn’t people vote Labour?

Sturgeon says a vote for Labour in Scotland would let the Tories win seats.

But she says even the SNP’s harshest critics would accept it has been effective at Westminster.

Angus Robertson has taken on the PM at PMQs. And the SNP has led the charge on issues like the rape clause.

Q: The Tories want to take the UK out of the single market. But Labour would keep us in, which is what you want.

Sturgeon says Robinson is wrong. Labour wants to come out of the single market, she says.

She says if people vote SNP, they will give Sturgeon a mandate for her Brexit position.

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