Question Time leaders' special: May under fire over NHS and education –as it happened
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
Fri 2 Jun 2017 19.26 EDT
First published on Fri 2 Jun 2017 01.34 EDT- Question Time - Summary
- Question Time - Who won?
- Question Time leaders' special - Verdict from the Twitter commentariat
- Question 5 - Tuition fees
- Question 4 - Zero-hours contracts
- Question 3 - Nuclear weapons
- Question 2 - Business
- Question 1 to Jeremy Corbyn - Brexit
- Question 6 - Trump and climate change
- Question 5 - Education
- Question 4 - Foreign aid
- Question 3 - NHS and pay
- Question 2 - Brexit
- Question 1 - U-turns and broken promises
- Question Time leaders' special
- General election campaign in three charts
- The Guardian's view: it’s Labour
- Alan Johnson says he may have been been wrong about Corbyn who now has 'realistic chance' of winning
- May 'weak and feeble and spineless over climate change', says Ed Miliband
- Mackinlay insists he's innocent and says expenses charges won't affect his campaign
- Lunchtime summary
- Lucas says abandoning free movement is 'a scandal'
- May says Mackinlay is 'innocent until proven guilty'
- Corbyn says it was 'unwise' of Tory HQ to comment on Mackinlay prosecution
- Farage says May has turned into Tories' 'biggest liability'
- Tory HQ stands by Mackinlay, saying it expects him to be proved innocent
- Full details of the charges against Craig Mackinlay, Nathan Gray and Marion Little
- Tory candidate for South Thanet charged over alleged overspending in 2015 election
- Corbyn's Q&A
- Corbyn accuses May of 'subservience to Trump' over climate change and failing to show leadership
- Kezia Dugdale's Today interview
- Nicola Sturgeon's Today interview
- David Davis on migration target
- Ruth Davidson Today interview
- The Snap: your election briefing
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- Question Time - Summary
- Question Time - Who won?
- Question Time leaders' special - Verdict from the Twitter commentariat
- Question 5 - Tuition fees
- Question 4 - Zero-hours contracts
- Question 3 - Nuclear weapons
- Question 2 - Business
- Question 1 to Jeremy Corbyn - Brexit
- Question 6 - Trump and climate change
- Question 5 - Education
- Question 4 - Foreign aid
- Question 3 - NHS and pay
- Question 2 - Brexit
- Question 1 - U-turns and broken promises
- Question Time leaders' special
- General election campaign in three charts
- The Guardian's view: it’s Labour
- Alan Johnson says he may have been been wrong about Corbyn who now has 'realistic chance' of winning
- May 'weak and feeble and spineless over climate change', says Ed Miliband
- Mackinlay insists he's innocent and says expenses charges won't affect his campaign
- Lunchtime summary
- Lucas says abandoning free movement is 'a scandal'
- May says Mackinlay is 'innocent until proven guilty'
- Corbyn says it was 'unwise' of Tory HQ to comment on Mackinlay prosecution
- Farage says May has turned into Tories' 'biggest liability'
- Tory HQ stands by Mackinlay, saying it expects him to be proved innocent
- Full details of the charges against Craig Mackinlay, Nathan Gray and Marion Little
- Tory candidate for South Thanet charged over alleged overspending in 2015 election
- Corbyn's Q&A
- Corbyn accuses May of 'subservience to Trump' over climate change and failing to show leadership
- Kezia Dugdale's Today interview
- Nicola Sturgeon's Today interview
- David Davis on migration target
- Ruth Davidson Today interview
- The Snap: your election briefing
Question 2 - Business
Q: I run a small business. Will your plans create problems for me?
Corbyn asks the man how small is micro-business is. The man says he employs five people, but hopes to grow. Let’s hope it does, Corbyn says.
Corbyn says all his plans are costed. Labour will put up corporation tax. But he thinks it’s worth it, so young people can go to university without debt, and so teachers don’t have to collect money from parents at the school gate.
Q: Will you rule out a deal with [SNP leader] Nicola Sturgeon?
Corbyn says he is not doing deals. He wants a majority government.
Q: What does leaving the EU mean to you?
Corbyn says it means leaving the treaties, and the EU no longer having an independent authority over the UK.
Threatening the UK will not work.
Q: Do you want to remain in the single market?
Corbyn says his aim is tariff-free access.
Question 1 to Jeremy Corbyn - Brexit
Jeremy Corbyn is here.
Q: Why should the British public trust you and your team to negotiate Brexit?
Corbyn starts by saying it is a shame that the PM won’t debate him.
He says Labour would negotiate market access. We have a great team, he says. He says Keir Starmer [the shadow Brexit secretary] is one of the best lawyers in the country. He can trust Starmer more than some others doing the negotiating.
Q: Barry Gardiner said on Question Time last night we would be poorer when we left.
Corbyn says he does not think that.
Question 6 - Trump and climate change
Q: Why haven’t you signed the letter protesting about his decision to pull out of the Paris climate change agreement?
Because I told him so myself, May, says. She says she spoke to him last night.
Q: Wouldn’t it have been a good decision to join with France, Germany and Italy?
May says she takes independent decisions.
And that is the end of that part of the programme.
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