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Theresa May is forced to backtrack on one of her key manifesto pledges,

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On the campaign trail, Theresa May says she would consider

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imposing a cap on the total amount people might pay for care,

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But talk of imposing a limit has come after days of controversy

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about elderly people being forced to pay more for their social care.

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The basic principles remain absolutely the same

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as when they were put in the manifesto and

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As elderly people and their carers took in news of the change,

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the Prime Minister's opponents accused her of causing

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They haven't explained to the millions of people

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who are desperately worried about the sort of care what they're

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who are desperately worried about the sort of care that they're

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This is a government in chaos and confusion.

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We'll be looking in more detail at the Conservative approach

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to social care in England, and what it could mean

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President Trump starts his official trip to Israel and expresses

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confidence about a peace deal with the Palestinians.

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I've heard it's one of the toughest deals of all,

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but I have a feeling we're going to get there, eventually.

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Facebook insists that it is serious about monitoring offensive material

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And two centuries of tradition in Japanese art stealing the show

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And coming up in Sportsday on BBC News: David Moyes resigns

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as Sunderland manager after just one year in charge.

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The club ended the season bottom of the Premier League.

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The Prime Minister stands accused of performing a hasty U-turn

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on her plans to reform social care in England.

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Just four days after publishing the Conservative manifesto -

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and following widespread controversy - Theresa May claimed she was now

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The Prime Minister said she would consider imposing a limit

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on the cost of home care for the elderly.

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Mrs May's opponents said the about-turn was the very opposite

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Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, reports.

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Serenely rolling along, it had seemed, with only a few noises off.

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An antihunting protest was the last of the Tories' problems today.

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The manifesto created a mess over social care that

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The original version of the Tory plans were to be bundled away.

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It might not sound like it, but this is a big change

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to what Theresa May had planned - introducing a limit,

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a cap, on how much people in England could have to pay.

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This manifesto says that we will come forward

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with a consultation paper, a government green paper,

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and that consultation will include an absolute limit on the amount

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people have to pay for their care costs.

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You have just announced a significant change

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to what was offered in your manifesto, saying there will now be

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the possibility of a cap on social care that was not in the plans

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that was announced just four days ago.

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That doesn't look so strong and stable, Prime Minister,

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it looks rather like panic in the face of opposition.

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Our social care system will collapse unless we address this problem,

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and we can't leave it to the future, we have to start

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That is why I want to fix it, and I'm going to fix it.

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She was, though, pressed again and again, seeming

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Let's be clear, we have not changed the principles that we set

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out in the manifesto, we are very clear about

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the principles on which this system will operate.

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And ministers, well, they didn't really want to talk about it either.

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Can I ask you very quickly about the U-turn on social care?

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Secretary of State, can we ask you very quickly

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When did Theresa May change your mind?

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A closed-door, because just yesterday, ministers were saying

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Any chance that you will look at it again?

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But there were concerns inside the party.

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The Prime Minister herself had heard nerves on the doorstep.

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The principle of who pays stays the same, but the change of heart

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is a gift and a source of gags for Labour.

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You cannot trust this woman, she does U-turns an immigration,

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on Parliament won't be meeting, having an election until 2020!

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And it is what is called strong and stable!

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But the opposition is still attacking the part

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of the plan that remains - the value of people's homes

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in England will be factored in for all kinds of social care,

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even though assets below ?100,000 will be protected.

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This is what happens when you have a government that

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thinks it's going to win with an enormous majority.

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Governments that have landslide majorities make bad decisions,

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big mistakes and take people for granted.

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Social care is devolved, decided separately in Wales,

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Northern Ireland, and in Scotland, where her plans for the future

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will be published in the manifesto tomorrow.

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Theresa May, though, has been trying to make inroads

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in areas that have been hostile to Tories for years.

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And don't forget, she's been trying to make this campaign

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Are you embarrassed by this U-turn, Prime Minister?!

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The Prime Minister is adamant she has not budged on her principles,

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but she has made a big change to her plans published

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For the first time in this general election campaign,

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The Tories say they are the only ones who are willing to be honest

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Why was there no mention of a cap in the manifesto?

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But if honesty is the best policy, seemingly, that involves

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being ready, at short notice, to take your own plans apart.

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The idea of a cap, or limit, was first put forward

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in a Government review, commissioned by David Cameron

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It had been due to come into force last year

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Our social affairs correspondent, Alison Holt, examines how

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the Conservatives intend to tackle the challenge of

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Pensioner Peter Martin is fulltime career for his

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Limited savings mean they qualify for council help,

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OK, I'll make you another cup of tea, then.

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Peter has spent the last few days trying to work out

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what the Conservative care plans would mean for them.

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He believes they'd lose local authority help because the value

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of their home would be included in calculations for the first time.

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At the moment, we're paying ?68 a month.

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And if the new system came into effect tomorrow,

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He says he finds little reassurance in the promise they could pay later.

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He also wants more details on how a care cap would work.

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Under the new system, I see only uncertainty.

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I see the money disappearing very quickly, the debt

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And just a complete lack of certainty for the future.

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So what would the Tory plans mean for people who need care?

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At the moment, in England, anyone who has assets or savings

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of more than about ?23,000 pays for their care.

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Last week in their manifesto, the Conservatives said

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they'd increase that, allowing people to keep ?100,000.

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The value of their home would be included in the calculations

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for both residential and home care, deferred payments would allow

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the costs to be recouped from someone's estate after death.

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But it is what was missing that has caused the controversy.

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No mention to the cap or limit to the massive costs someone

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would still face before they got council help.

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Now Theresa May says they will consult on what she calls

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an absolute limit, but doesn't say what that will be.

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Sir Andrew Dilnot wrote the report which said a cap on care costs

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was essential to help people plan ahead.

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Worried by last week's proposals, he welcomes this change.

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The proposals, as they were described last week,

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failed to answer one of the two big questions

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is everybody going to manage the risks that they face?

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So people with last week's proposals were left with an enormous

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Putting a cap in place means that people will be able to manage it,

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and that means this set of proposals is much better.

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Many questions remain about the costs and details

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of the plans, but for people like Peter and Doris, getting this

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Earlier this evening, the Prime Minister was asked again

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to explain her thinking on social care, when she spoke

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The principles on which we have based our social care policy remain

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We need to ensure that we have long-term

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We need to be able to ensure we can fund social care for the future.

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We're doing the honest thing about putting a proposal

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And they will make their choice on that. How could it be honest to

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reject a cap in your manifesto and four days later say, we are going to

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have a cap? That is honest about that? I set out in our manifesto was

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a series of principles to say to people, this is a big issue, will

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need to address it and we being honest that we need to fix it and

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that is what I want to do. I will not bury my head in the sand play

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politics that Jeremy Corbyn. I'm going to fix it.

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Our political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, is with me.

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This kind of absurd is not usual in a campaign of this kind. What impact

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could it have on the Conservative campaign? Unusual for two reasons,

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because in living memory, there is no other main party leader who has

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made a significant change to their published manifesto that they waved

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in front of the cameras days after putting it out into the public

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domain. It is also unusual because this is the first time in this

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election campaign at least we have really seen Theresa May showing the

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pressure clearly being rattled and being exasperated by repeatedly

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being asked the same straightforward questions and struggling to give

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clear answers and is trying to wriggle out of a technique OT of

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whether this is a change a lot. Denying this is a straightforward

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U-turn, but this is a change to the plans put forward several days ago.

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Theresa May and the Tories have clearly made the political

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calculation was worse to suck up the political embarrassment of a day

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like today rather than stick to a set of plans that could risk

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serious, serious damage to their prospects. One Cabinet Minister

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said, better deal with it now than risk it overtaking the whole

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campaign. This is the problem, Theresa May has made this campaign

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obviously and deliberately about questions of leadership. Her

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resolve, her determination to make decisions and to stick to them. And

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we have here an episode suggesting she is maybe quite a lot more

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susceptible to pressure and her team and the rest of the Tory party would

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have us believe. Again, thank you. A reminder - for all the latest

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election news and analysis, And if you want to watch

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all of Andrew Neil's interview with Theresa May,

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you can do on the BBC iPlayer. NHS trusts in England will record

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a deficit of around ?750 million The figures have been made public,

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despite the Government's insistence that they should not be published

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during an election campaign, Our health editor, Hugh Pym,

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is here with more details. Tell us about well-being. -- tell us

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about the figures. They are important figures about the state of

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NHS finances in England and they were due out at the end of May but

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the Department of Health and Brady told NHS leaders, you cannot publish

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them because that would be a breach of Whitehall convention, restricting

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government announcements. NHS leaders were not happy as tonight,

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one organisation representing trusts and NHS providers has put out its

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own estimate, saying there was a deficit of between 700 and ?750

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million, a big deficit but they say an improvement on the previous year

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because of cutting agency staff bills. So this is an absurd position

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that the public figures were not released until a couple of weeks but

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versions have been doing the rounds tonight. Very much.

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Labour says it will bring forward its pledge to scrap tuition

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fees to include students starting university in England this autumn,

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Jeremy Corbyn also said that students, who are part-way

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through their courses, would not have to pay

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In Labour's attempt to reach out to young people,

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Mr Corbyn also promised more investment in Britain's arts,

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music, film and theatre, as our political correspondent,

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In what used to be an old fruit and veg market, Jeremy Corbyn

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upped his sales pitch to students in Hull.

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Labour had already promised to scrap tuition fees for English students

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studying at English universities from next year.

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Now he says students starting this year will be free of fees.

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Surely we should be investing in our future.

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Somebody who doesn't achieve the profession they want -

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nursing, teaching, medicine in some other form, engineering, -

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whatever it happens to be, they lose out, but we,

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as a society, lose out because we've lost a qualified person who can help

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improve our industries, improve our services,

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From this autumn, universities in England can charge up to ?9,250

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Labour says new students and those part way through courses would have

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The party claims this policy would cost the taxpayer

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But the Tories, Lib Dems and those studying the numbers said the policy

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would benefit better off graduates most of all.

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If you're a relatively low earner, you'll never pay back anything

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like what you've borrowed and the whole thing gets

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It's only the higher earners who pay it all back.

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So if you get rid of the tuition fees, then it's the highest earners

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who benefit the most and the lowest earners don't benefit

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Jeremy Corbyn's on the stump today with one of Hull's heavy hitters,

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But if Jeremy Corbyn's going to have a chance of getting

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to Number Ten in just over two weeks, it's young voters he needs.

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Today's policy is a clear attempt to woo them.

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Education is a devolved issue and Scottish students at Scottish

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At the University of Hull today students weighed up the latest

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have Concerned about how it's going to be funded.

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Also concerned about Jeremy Corbyn on policies such as Trident.

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I won't be voting Labour again unfortunately.

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I think it's going to go down really well with students.

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Labour policies are historically pretty popular with students.

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I think this will be absolutely no exception.

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At a rally here this evening, a rapturous

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welcome for Jeremy Corbyn, but in this Labour-held city is

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he just preaching to the converted or reaching new supporters?

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President Trump, who's on a visit to Israel,

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has demanded that Iran stop supporting what he called

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He said there was a growing realisation in the Middle East

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And he underlined the strength of the link between

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the United States and Israel, suggesting there was a rare

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opportunity to move forward with seeking peace

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Our North America editor, Jon Sopel, sent this report.

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Even with his arrival on Air Force One,

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a small piece of history was made -

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the first-ever direct flight between Saudi Arabia and Israel.

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The two countries have no diplomatic relations.

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he's here on an outreach programme, not that Melania Trump seemed very

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interested in that. The self-proclaimed deal maker is after

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what he called the ultimate deal, peace between Israelis and

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Palestinians. We have before us a rare opportunity to bring security

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and stability and peace to this region and to its people, defeating

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terrorism and creating a future of harmony, prosperity and peace. But

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we can only get there working together. There is no other way.

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After the warmth of his reception in Saudi Arabia, it seemed the whole

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Israeli ruling cast had decamped to the airport to make a public display

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of appreciation towards this country's most important ally. It

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was then on to Jerusalem, a still divided city, whose future status

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will be hotly contested Any Currency peace agreement. When Donald Trump

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was a candidate, he vowed the US embassy would move from Tel Aviv to

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Jerusalem, now under pressure from the Palestinians that seems

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increasingly unlikely. As a candidate, he had nothing to say

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about settlement building in the West Bank. Now that he's president,

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he's urging Israelis to be cautious. It seems that the candidate and the

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president can be two different people. But symbols can be as

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important as words. It won't have been lost on Israelis that Donald

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Trump became the first president to visit the western wall, one of

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Judaism's most holy site. He put a note in a crevice, a tradition going

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back centuries. The Trump mission to bring together the three great

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religions of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. This evening, Donald

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Trump went to have dinner at the Israeli Prime Minister's residence

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and Benjamin Netanyahu was sounding unusually upbeat and positive about

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the future prospects. For the first time in many years, and Mr

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President, for the first time in my life tip, I see a real hope for

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change. But in the West Bank, talk of change and new beginnings seemed

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as far away as ever, as Israeli soldiers clashed with Palestinian

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protesters, some clearly unhappy about the president's visit.

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Our Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, is in Jerusalem.

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What are your impressions of this visit so far? First of all, the

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comments about Iran. Things which will go down very well with the

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Israelis and the Saudis, the reality is that President Trump continues to

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honour the nuclear agreement with the Iranians. Now Iran and Israel

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have been drawn together by their shared feeling that Iran is an

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enemy. Now that is unlikely, I mean, I beg your pardon, Saudi Arabia and

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Israel have been drawn together by a shared feeling that Iran as an

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enemy. I think that is very unlikely to translate into Saudi Arabia

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taking up Israel's positions on the Palestinians. The Saudis already

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have a peace plan of their own that's been on the table for 15

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years, offering full peace and recognition by Arab countries of

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Israel in return for a Palestinian state in the whole of the west bank

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and east Jerusalem. The Israeli government is way away from

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accepting anything like that. Also, the Palestinians and Israeli

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leaderships really dislike and distrust each other. That's another

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big problem. So President Trump thinks he's a deal maker with the

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personality to cut through the kinds of problems that have defeated

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lesser men. Now I think that the whole point about what's going on

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here, it's not like trying to fix the price of an office building.

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It's not about trying to get the numbers right. It's about reck

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numbers right. It's about reconciling the world views with

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very different perceptions about the way ahead. Jermey Bowen there, our

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Middle East editor there in Jerusalem.

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Facebook says it takes very seriously its responsibility

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to monitor offensive material posted on its pages, after leaked documents

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showed its policy is not to remove all graphic content,

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The live-streaming of people self-harming is also tolerated,

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because Facebook says it doesn't want to censor or punish

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Our media editor, Amol Rajan, has more details.

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The founder of Facebook is nothing if not an idealist. Facebook's

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mission is to make the world more open and connected. But such

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openness comes with dangers. With nearly two billion users now, the

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sheer volume of content on Facebook is proving impossible to control.

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The leaked policy guidelines refer to areas such as extremist violence,

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revenge porn and self-harm. Moderators are required to intervene

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when there is a statement of intent to commit violence against an

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identified and vulnerable person. So a specific threat targeted against

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the American president would be deleted. But a more general

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expression of massive such as this would not. These guidelines show

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that the soon to be 7500 moderators who work for Facebook are often

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making hugely important decisions under immense time pressure. But the

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reporter behind the story says it's just too big a responsibility. We

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realise what the extent and breadth of the problems that Facebook has,

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everything from racial problems on the site to revenge porn. There's no

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way that Mark Zuckerberg would have thought 14 years ago that Facebook

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would have been facing those issues in 2017. A former Facebook staffer

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says its role is not to be the asher of what is and isn't offence itch

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material. -- arbitor. It's not a bunch of people making it up as they

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go along. Over many years, this rule book has been built up as new social

:24:40.:24:43.

problems come along, new users come along. The company says, "We work

:24:44.:24:48.

hard to make Facebook as safe as possible while enabling Free Speech.

:24:49.:24:52.

In addition to investing in new people, we're building better tools

:24:53.:24:56.

to keep our community safe." Amy Wilson, who has self-harmed in the

:24:57.:25:00.

past, was upset when asked by Facebook to remove images of her

:25:01.:25:04.

healing wounds. She believes such images can symbolise recovery. But

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the images of people in crisis should never be shown. I don't think

:25:08.:25:13.

photos of actual self-harm and somebody doing it on the live

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streams or photos of wounds, I don't think they should be shown at all. I

:25:19.:25:21.

don't understand how there could be any positive in it. Facebook say

:25:22.:25:25.

they work with law enforcement to save lives. But all this is

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uncharted terrain, neither a simple platform nor conventional publisher,

:25:33.:25:35.

technology giants are a new kind of company growing so fast that the law

:25:36.:25:38.

and public opinion is struggling keep up.

:25:39.:25:43.

President Trump's former National Security Advisor,

:25:44.:25:45.

Michael Flynn, will reportedly refuse to give evidence

:25:46.:25:47.

to a Congressional committee, investigating alleged Russian links

:25:48.:25:51.

He's been summoned to give evidence to the inquiry but is expected

:25:52.:25:56.

to invoke the Fifth Amendment, which gives him the right not

:25:57.:25:59.

A prison psychiatrist, who until last month

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worked at Woodhill Prison in Buckinghamshire, has told BBC

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News that safety improvements were not made following a series

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of suicides, because there was a shortage of staff.

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Since 2013, 18 inmates have died at Woodhill Prison.

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According to official figures, there were 120 suicides in jails

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in England and Wales in 2016 - a record number.

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Campaigners will find out tomorrow if the High Court is to order

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Our correspondent, Michael Buchanan, has the story.

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18 prisoners have killed themselves at Woodhill since 2013.

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Levels of assault and violence are also rising.

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The prison is chronically understaffed.

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Inmates can be locked up for 23 hours a day.

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What does that do to you, to be locked up for that amount of time?

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Well, it has a big impact on you mentally.

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It can give you serious mental health issues.

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Jamie Blyth has been in and out of Woodhill for the past 12 years.

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Everyone can break and I was at breaking point, like.

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And obviously, my brother hit that point and now he's gone.

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His brother, Daniel, killed himself in prison last year.

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An inquest jury found Woodhill's failure to learn from previous

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Jamie was in a neighbouring cell block at the time.

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He has known seven of the 18 prisoners who have died here.

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We're getting the wrong type of staff.

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Like, where we used to get all the old ex-forces and that,

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guys that were, you know, could be annoying and hard to be

:27:39.:27:41.

around, but they were straight and you where you stand with them.

:27:42.:27:45.

We're getting a lot of people that I don't think are meant for the job.

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Campaigners will learn tomorrow if judges are willing to order

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They argued before the High Court last month that the prison had

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failed to fulfil previous promises to make the jail safer.

:27:58.:28:00.

Their concerns about Woodhill come amid record levels of prison

:28:01.:28:04.

Since 2012, the number of prison officers has

:28:05.:28:10.

During the same period, the number of prison suicides

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I remember going home and saying, my job has become insane!

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Elisabeth van Horn worked as a psychiatrist at Woodhill

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She resigned, frustrated at the challenges she faced.

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There've been a number of inquests after suicides saying that

:28:29.:28:31.

You can only get things done if you've got the workforce to do it.

:28:32.:28:45.

So was the prison regime itself creating mental health problems?

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Particularly for people with pre-existing mental health problems.

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That's a sort of added burden that they really cannot cope with.

:28:51.:28:56.

Nearly ?1 billion has been taken out of the prisons and probation

:28:57.:28:59.

budget in recent years, but ministers now say they're

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looking to recruit 2,500 new prison officers.

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Prison suicides don't elicit widespread sympathy, but each one

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And each avoidable death also blunts the argument that prison works

:29:11.:29:16.

Michael Buchanan, BBC News, Woodhill Prison in Buckinghamshire.

:29:17.:29:28.

A promise to campaign for a referendum on the final Brexit

:29:29.:29:30.

deal features prominently in the manifesto of the Green Party

:29:31.:29:33.

The co-leader, Caroline Lucas, who was the party's only MP before

:29:34.:29:37.

the election was called, set out what she called

:29:38.:29:39.

a Green Guarantee, including a universal basic income

:29:40.:29:42.

Our political correspondent Eleanor Garnier reports.

:29:43.:29:51.

The Greens are a party with not just one but two leaders.

:29:52.:29:54.

In Central London today, they set out what they called

:29:55.:29:58.

big and bold ideas, which they insisted were possible.

:29:59.:30:03.

This election is about what kind of future we want for our children.

:30:04.:30:06.

It is about protecting our values of openness,

:30:07.:30:09.

It's about our promise that a confident and caring future

:30:10.:30:15.

is possible, if we work together, if we do politics differently

:30:16.:30:19.

The party's policies include holding a second referendum

:30:20.:30:26.

They want to explore having a universal basic income

:30:27.:30:31.

Plus, they've got a long-term aim to scrap university tuition fees

:30:32.:30:37.

in England and all existing student loan debt.

:30:38.:30:42.

They're defending one seat but hoping to win over voters

:30:43.:30:45.

I feel like a lot of Green supporters are now maybe going more

:30:46.:30:51.

Labour because Labour have maybe more of a chance.

:30:52.:30:55.

I wouldn't personally vote for the Green Party.

:30:56.:30:59.

But I can see them becoming a force in the future

:31:00.:31:02.

The Greens say they're standing up for young people

:31:03.:31:08.

and the environment, but they're standing aside in more

:31:09.:31:11.

seats than they're likely to win in the hope that it will help Labour

:31:12.:31:15.

Pushing for a progressive alliance with other parties on the left has

:31:16.:31:20.

led to criticism they'll end up in a coalition of chaos.

:31:21.:31:23.

To do that, they first need to get located.

:31:24.:31:29.

Sinn Fein has launched its general election manifesto,

:31:30.:31:35.

which is calling for a referendum on whether Northern Ireland should

:31:36.:31:38.

leave the UK and become part of the Irish Republic.

:31:39.:31:42.

The party wants the vote to be held within five years.

:31:43.:31:45.

Sinn Fein's leader in Northern Ireland, Michelle O'Neill,

:31:46.:31:47.

said the only way of securing a future in the European Union

:31:48.:31:50.

was to end partition with the Republic.

:31:51.:31:55.

So this is very much an opportunity to tell both the Tories and the DUP,

:31:56.:31:58.

again, in the strongest possible terms that we reject Brexit,

:31:59.:32:03.

that we reject any border, that we reject any attempt to put

:32:04.:32:06.

limits on our freedom of movement, we reject barriers to trade

:32:07.:32:10.

And we absolutely reject Tory cuts, that we stand

:32:11.:32:14.

for rights, for equality and for Irish unity.

:32:15.:32:21.

One of the most recognised and imitated images in the world,

:32:22.:32:24.

known as The Great Wave, was originally a woodblock print

:32:25.:32:28.

created by the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai almost

:32:29.:32:32.

It is the centrepiece of a show, that opens this week

:32:33.:32:38.

at the British Museum, looking at the last decades

:32:39.:32:41.

of the artist's long life, when he produced some

:32:42.:32:44.

Our arts editor, Will Gompertz, has been to take a look.

:32:45.:32:48.

It's emblematic of the power of the sea.

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You've got these men in their boats completely dwarfed

:32:59.:33:02.

But I think it's also become in some ways emblematic

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And you're immediately aware of this almost frozen power of the image

:33:10.:33:18.

and I've come to think that maybe Hokusai is actually inventing

:33:19.:33:23.

When Hokusai made his famous series of wood block prints

:33:24.:33:28.

featuring Mount Fuji, he was around 70, old for

:33:29.:33:31.

He considered it a new beginning of his life as an artist

:33:32.:33:37.

At the age of 75 he takes the name Old Man Crazy To Paint

:33:38.:33:45.

which is wonderful, I think it's an expression of this

:33:46.:33:48.

He is determined, the older he gets, the better he will become.

:33:49.:33:54.

From the age of 90, there is an extraordinary painting

:33:55.:33:58.

Technically this is a staggering painting and Hokusai has this

:33:59.:34:04.

all worked out in his head before he ever touches his brush to paper.

:34:05.:34:08.

You can't make corrections with this kind of painting,

:34:09.:34:10.

it's not like an oil painting where you can scrub a bit

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You've got to get it right the first time.

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What is it about his work that makes it resonate so?

:34:18.:34:24.

He's interested in the world of work.

:34:25.:34:26.

Ordinary people going about their business

:34:27.:34:28.

in sometimes amazing nature, sometimes in the city of Edo.

:34:29.:34:32.

It's not the really grand people he tends to paint, it's us.

:34:33.:34:37.

We know Hokusai was a great master who influenced the likes

:34:38.:34:39.

of van Gogh and Degas, but what this exhibition also shows

:34:40.:34:42.

is that old age doesn't necessarily mean a slow decline,

:34:43.:34:45.

rather a fresh start and unleashing of creative powers and a time

:34:46.:34:48.

Newsnight is coming up on BBC Two, here's Even.

:34:49.:35:02.

An awkward day for the Tories altering a manifesto policy on

:35:03.:35:08.

social care, that was only four days old. What does it tell us about

:35:09.:35:13.

Theresa May? We'll hear what one of the Daily Mail's most senior

:35:14.:35:17.

columnists makes of it. Join me now on BBC Two.

:35:18.:35:19.

Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

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