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
Diane Abbott, the shadow home secretary, says May is not telling the truth about her.
Desperate stuff by May. Claims I want to wipe DNA database clean. Never said that. Curious that she is singling me out for attack #BBCQT
— Diane Abbott (@HackneyAbbott) June 2, 2017
May says she wants to consult on how the social care cap will work.
Q: If you can tell us what the floor is, why can’t you tell us what the cap will be?
(Excellent question.)
May says she thought it was important to say what the floor was. But she wants to consult on the cap.
Q: What is the point of saving for care if your house is going to be taken away?
Dimbleby asks for clarification about the £100,000. He seems to confuse the floor and the cap.
May brushes aside his question, and goes back to the question she was asked.
She says people will keep more than now under the Tory plans.
Dimbleby says it was odd to leave the cap out of the manifesto.
May says she set out the principles in her manifesto.
May proving she's a bloody difficult woman as she dodges Dimbleby's q & tells him: 'I'll answer the question he [audience member] asked me"
— Matt Dathan (@matt_dathan) June 2, 2017
Dramatic improvement by Theresa May from the shifty Sky/C4 grilling on Monday night. Confident, smiley and engaging now #BBCQT
— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) June 2, 2017
And she showed Corbyn how to deal with interruptions. Pleasant "you can come back in a minute" not snarling "can I finish" #BBCDebate
— John Rentoul (@JohnRentoul) June 2, 2017
Q: You want people to trust you. But how can we when your manifesto has no costings?
May says the manifesto is open about the challenges the government faces.
Very dovish from PM on Brexit sequencing; accepts "sufficient progress" formulation. #BBCQT
— Tom Nuttall (@tom_nuttall) June 2, 2017
A man says there should be a second referendum. The audience boos.
May says in the past the EU has asked people to vote for a second time. People in the UK objected. If the people have voted, the government should deliver.
A man says it was unfair of May to criticise Diane Abbott for getting her figures wrong because Philip Hammond got the price of HS2 wrong.
May says the thing about Abbott is that she wants to wipe the DNA of criminals and terrorists from the DNA database.
Q: How much are you prepared to pay to leave the EU?
May says it is not a good negotiating strategy to say in advance how much you will pay.
Q: And do you accept you need to settle the money first?
May says the EU wants to debate the bill first. She wants one of the early discussions to be about EU citizens. They will move on to discussing trade when we make progress in the talks.
A woman asks if May really thinks she has leverage.
Yes, says May, because they need a good deal.
Q: If the EU plays awkward, why don’t we just cut and run and pay them no money?
May says other parties would get the worst deal at the highest price.
Dimbleby says May said during the EU referendum that staying in the EU would make us more prosperous. Yesterday she said Brexit would make us more prosperous. Where are you at with this?
May says she always said that the sky would not fall in if we left. What matters most is being able to deliver on the will of the people.
Dimbleby says May must think the people made the wrong choice. Can you honestly say there will be no difference between leaving and staying?
May says she said on balance it would be better to stay. But the key thing now is to deliver, she says.
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