:00:00. > :00:00.Welcome to York, where in just half an hour's time
:00:00. > :00:08.Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn will face questions
:00:09. > :00:11.We're counting down to the start of
:00:12. > :00:34.the BBC Question Time Leaders Special.
:00:35. > :00:37.With just six days to polling day, Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn
:00:38. > :00:40.are gearing up for a special edition of BBC Question Time.
:00:41. > :00:43.They won't appear at the same time, instead each will take questions
:00:44. > :00:48.We're here in the spin room at the University of York
:00:49. > :00:51.along with commentators, bloggers and party representatives.
:00:52. > :00:54.This is where the battle of the party message will be played
:00:55. > :01:01.The party leaders arrived here a short while ago where
:01:02. > :01:03.in tonight's programme, hosted by David Dimbleby,
:01:04. > :01:06.each party leader will separately answer questions from the studio
:01:07. > :01:13.Theresa May will go first and Jeremy Corbyn second.
:01:14. > :01:19.We'll bring you the full debate at 8.30pm, with on-screen analysis
:01:20. > :01:24.We'll have the latest reaction from the BBC Reality Check team,
:01:25. > :01:29.who will be fact-checking the leaders comments in real time.
:01:30. > :01:33.And thoughts of the BBC's politics team and political commentators.
:01:34. > :01:36.Then at 10pm, I'll be back with a special reaction programme
:01:37. > :01:40.hearing from the parties and the pundits.
:01:41. > :01:42.Let's talk now to Shadow Business Secretary Rebecca Long Bailey,
:01:43. > :01:49.and Culture Secretary Karen Bradley.
:01:50. > :01:57.Karen Bradley, if I can start with you. You know Theresa May well, you
:01:58. > :02:02.work the third The Home Office, and wanted a sense of how the campaign
:02:03. > :02:07.was going as you see it. I worked with Theresa May Futuna half years
:02:08. > :02:11.and I've been honoured to serve in a Cabinet for nearly 12 months. She is
:02:12. > :02:16.determined lady and leader and you can trust her to make the right
:02:17. > :02:21.decisions. In six days we're going to be facing the most important
:02:22. > :02:25.election for a generation. The decision is whether people want
:02:26. > :02:28.Theresa May leading the Brexit negotiations or if they want Jeremy
:02:29. > :02:32.Corbyn. Tonight they can see what they think of those two leaders.
:02:33. > :02:38.When you first had that message a couple of weeks ago, did your magic
:02:39. > :02:43.that at this stage polls and everyone else seems to suggest
:02:44. > :02:46.Theresa May is under pressure. We always said that going into an
:02:47. > :02:50.election things can happen and the polls have been wrong in the past
:02:51. > :02:55.and they are tightening, there is no doubt about it. There is a risk that
:02:56. > :03:02.this time next week Jeremy Corbyn could be negotiating deals to get
:03:03. > :03:04.himself into Downing Street in the event of a hung Parliament. The
:03:05. > :03:09.Conservatives only need to lose 60s for that to be a reality. So tonight
:03:10. > :03:14.is an opportunity for people to see both readers and to decide who they
:03:15. > :03:18.want to go into the Brexit negotiations 11 days after the
:03:19. > :03:24.general election. How will Jeremy Corbyn be approaching tonight? He
:03:25. > :03:29.will be giving it his all. We do not want another seven years of
:03:30. > :03:34.Conservative rule. My community has been destroyed by the cuts in the
:03:35. > :03:39.local authorities do to the NHS. We have seen very little support for
:03:40. > :03:44.business to help our economy grow and prosper, productivity is down,
:03:45. > :03:49.we are in a state of affairs where wages are 10% lower than they were
:03:50. > :03:54.before the financial crash. While we are offering in the manifesto is a
:03:55. > :04:00.bold and transformative vision. This does not incur when the sides to
:04:01. > :04:05.make life a little better, this will transform our economy and society
:04:06. > :04:10.and make Britain a world leader. Today I launched our industrial
:04:11. > :04:14.strategy Barak committed to making us and innovation nation, where we
:04:15. > :04:19.will increase our investment in research and development to 3% of
:04:20. > :04:25.GDP. It is currently the low competitors across the world.
:04:26. > :04:29.Audiences like the one tonight have a knack of cutting to the chase and
:04:30. > :04:33.Afghan leaders questions they find uncomfortable. How do you think you
:04:34. > :04:42.will cope with those? I think he will cope very well. To debate him
:04:43. > :04:47.head-on. I hope the audience will have cleared the social cap is going
:04:48. > :04:51.to be, where Prime Minister Mac will put that, how many people will lose
:04:52. > :04:55.their winter tour fuel allowance, we have been told I could be up to 10
:04:56. > :05:00.million pensioners who feel they have been kicked in the teeth. The
:05:01. > :05:05.IFF says there is no money in the Conservative manifesto for the NHS
:05:06. > :05:09.or public services and there is no reference to costing or spending
:05:10. > :05:13.plans. I hope she is held to account on this policy issues tonight and
:05:14. > :05:18.ensure the audience will do that. Between you and me, how do you think
:05:19. > :05:22.Theresa May has ran the campaign so far? A lot of criticism for not
:05:23. > :05:28.turning up to the debate. She always said she was never going to go to
:05:29. > :05:31.that debate and she sticks to her plan, unlike Jeremy Corbyn who
:05:32. > :05:35.decided on the morning of the debate. It took in six weeks to
:05:36. > :05:39.decide. Rebecca Omega point about the economy and we will not have a
:05:40. > :05:46.strong economy unless they get a good deal from Brexit. -- Rebecca
:05:47. > :05:49.has made the point. This is why it is the most important election in a
:05:50. > :05:56.generation because in one week there is a risk that Jeremy Corbyn will be
:05:57. > :05:59.in number ten in Barking on Brexit negotiations not upside the SNP, the
:06:00. > :06:07.Liberal Democrats and who knows who else. Theresa May stood on the steps
:06:08. > :06:11.of Downing Street a few weeks ago deluded with paranoia accusing
:06:12. > :06:16.Europe of getting involved in the general election. She is not winning
:06:17. > :06:22.friends are influencing people. She says that no deal is better than a
:06:23. > :06:26.bad deal, although businesses are saying that is the worst outcome.
:06:27. > :06:30.They have picked some winners and losers, Abbas spoke the author
:06:31. > :06:37.Nissan, while leaving other companies out in the cold. This is
:06:38. > :06:41.not a strong and stable the go shooting position that this
:06:42. > :06:47.Government has set out to achieve. Are you nervous about tonight? I'm
:06:48. > :06:51.not nervous, I think Jeremy Corbyn will smash it. I hope that people
:06:52. > :06:53.see the risk that the rays and that it is not safe to vote for the
:06:54. > :06:54.Labour Party. So we're hearing from
:06:55. > :06:56.the politicians and the pundits, Sophie Long has been
:06:57. > :07:01.to a bar here in York. I'm just in the centre of York,
:07:02. > :07:04.just along the banks of the River Ouse, in a wine bar,
:07:05. > :07:07.and there's been quite a debate here ahead
:07:08. > :07:09.of tonight's special programme. Let me just introduce
:07:10. > :07:11.you and give you a taste. Steve, hi, have you been
:07:12. > :07:14.following the election campaign? And what you think of
:07:15. > :07:18.Theresa May's campaign so far? I think she shot herself
:07:19. > :07:21.in the foot by trying to hurt I'd like to ask her why she thinks
:07:22. > :07:27.it's OK for our friends who own a ?150,000 house
:07:28. > :07:31.to have their son left with ?100,000, and for my wife
:07:32. > :07:37.and I, who own a ?450,000 house, that if we get dementia,
:07:38. > :07:40.we have just got ?100,000 left, and it's cost us 350,
:07:41. > :07:46.and our friends it's cost 50. I will still vote for her,
:07:47. > :07:54.I would normally vote Ukip, but I will vote for her to keep
:07:55. > :07:56.the nutcase out. Let's speak to Ruby and Joe,
:07:57. > :08:01.you have a different perspective, you work at this wine bar,
:08:02. > :08:04.and you're a bit younger, shall we say, than Steve
:08:05. > :08:06.there, just in your 20s. Have you been
:08:07. > :08:08.following the campaign? Yeah, I've been following for
:08:09. > :08:11.Labour, following Jeremy. My main concern is the NHS,
:08:12. > :08:16.that I don't want it to be sold off or privatised and it remains
:08:17. > :08:18.accessible and So you'll be looking for questions
:08:19. > :08:22.on that tonight in tonight's debate. I just think that Labour has come
:08:23. > :08:27.out with the manifesto that been fully budgeted,
:08:28. > :08:31.and Corbyn as a leader, he's just so relatable and actually
:08:32. > :08:46.wants to spend the time getting That is the view of the voters and
:08:47. > :08:55.they will be asking questions tonight. Let's speak to Sir Michael
:08:56. > :09:01.Stoute on, the Defence Secretary. Are you nervous? No, but it is a big
:09:02. > :09:08.debate because this decision is only six days away and the country has to
:09:09. > :09:12.choose the right person to lead us into a successful Brexit
:09:13. > :09:17.negotiations. We say that is Theresa May, she has proven her leadership
:09:18. > :09:22.credentials already, and then Jeremy Corbyn has it all to do tonight, to
:09:23. > :09:26.explain how he will finance is spending promises, to explain his
:09:27. > :09:30.third offence record, and to defence how he will be propped up by Liberal
:09:31. > :09:33.Democrats Scottish Nationalists, what can you call it a quality
:09:34. > :09:40.Government could that be? What do you think about how Theresa May has
:09:41. > :09:46.ran the campaign so far? We never believed we were 20 points ahead
:09:47. > :09:51.five weeks ago, we never believed that. Inevitably as the campaign
:09:52. > :09:53.goes on the focus begins to sharpen. Only two people can become Prime
:09:54. > :10:01.Minister next Friday morning, Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn, that
:10:02. > :10:04.is the choice the country faces. It is difficult for the incumbent Prime
:10:05. > :10:09.Minister and it is difficult because she is going first as well. How do
:10:10. > :10:16.you think she will respond to the questions on past policy, the NHS,
:10:17. > :10:22.how has she been rehearsing? She has been preparing to defend our
:10:23. > :10:27.record... That got a laugh from the audience in a previous debate. We
:10:28. > :10:31.have seen a massive drop in unemployment, we have a strong
:10:32. > :10:35.record of putting more money into public services, getting the deficit
:10:36. > :10:40.down, but above all she has set out a clear vision for this country of
:10:41. > :10:45.how we negotiate this Brexit decision that we all took last year
:10:46. > :10:51.and how we build a stronger future for Britain after that. How
:10:52. > :10:55.important is tonight? It is very important, it is the last chance for
:10:56. > :10:59.people to focus on who will be Prime Minister next Friday, who has the
:11:00. > :11:03.leadership potential to take this into country Brexit and to build a
:11:04. > :11:07.stronger, fairer Britain have the Brexit. That is Theresa May and
:11:08. > :11:14.Jeremy Corbyn has a lot to prove tonight. Thank you for joining us.
:11:15. > :11:18.Everyone will be looking at the body language.
:11:19. > :11:21.Whenever there's a debate like this, no matter the format,
:11:22. > :11:23.the leaders will be aware that we're watching a performance,
:11:24. > :11:26.and body language, of course, has a lot to do with how
:11:27. > :11:29.Let's speak now to Darren Stanton, who's a body language expert.
:11:30. > :11:35.As we have been hearing, both Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May have been
:11:36. > :11:41.primacy -- have been practising. What will they have been told to
:11:42. > :11:48.avoid? I think any gesture that there is insincere or defensive. I
:11:49. > :11:53.look for a baseline, both politicians are very well coached.
:11:54. > :11:58.It any questions are as that the politicians are not happy to answer,
:11:59. > :12:01.they will be a break in their pattern of behaviour. So folding
:12:02. > :12:05.their arms are putting their hands in the pockets, these are breaks and
:12:06. > :12:14.the gestures that the politicians generally use. When you think of
:12:15. > :12:21.American elections, sweating is an issue. People think that sweating
:12:22. > :12:24.comes across as insincere or that they have something to hide, so I
:12:25. > :12:31.think sweating could be something that makes the voters think there is
:12:32. > :12:37.something not right. In terms of how they and so the question the
:12:38. > :12:43.audience will follow. They have got to be straight tonight. Absolutely.
:12:44. > :12:46.With 96% of communication being nonverbal, voters will not just be
:12:47. > :12:51.hearing what they say but also what they are not saying and is their
:12:52. > :12:59.body language consistent with the message they are trying to convey.
:13:00. > :13:05.Is this a discussion that can be lost more easily than it can be one?
:13:06. > :13:08.I think so, I think it will be very interesting and potentially very
:13:09. > :13:14.close. If one politician says the wrong thing, even if they have had a
:13:15. > :13:21.perfect performance, one thing to be the tipping point that makes the
:13:22. > :13:25.difference to the whole debate. What are the little things that most of
:13:26. > :13:32.us do not notice? What will you be looking for that gives away how they
:13:33. > :13:37.are feeling any particular moment? The way people present themselves is
:13:38. > :13:41.linked to a motion, so there are micro-expressions that are very
:13:42. > :13:47.fleeting flashes of the motion and these generally are happy or sad or
:13:48. > :13:50.fear or surprise or content, so if either politician says they are
:13:51. > :13:57.happy to answer the question but then they shall fear, why would they
:13:58. > :14:01.be masking that a motion? I will be looking for inconsistencies in terms
:14:02. > :14:07.of what they are saying and what their emotions are betraying. I
:14:08. > :14:12.would be terrified sitting in front of an audience of 150 people knowing
:14:13. > :14:16.that at least half of them were about to expose me, so how will they
:14:17. > :14:23.have camped themselves down before this? They will have had coaches,
:14:24. > :14:26.maybe rehearsing as best they can because if we rehearse as much as
:14:27. > :14:35.possible when they do go into the real setting the mind will imagine
:14:36. > :14:40.it has been through it before, so I think a little bit of nerds is a
:14:41. > :14:45.good thing but essentially it is just the fact that they rehearse so
:14:46. > :14:53.much. -- a little bit of nerves. It will be very very interesting. Thank
:14:54. > :14:59.you for joining us this evening. I'm going to talk to someone who is
:15:00. > :15:02.responsible for the Labour campaign. Andrew, is this where you thought
:15:03. > :15:09.you would be six days before polling day? I am pleased with the way that
:15:10. > :15:13.we have been able to get our progressive view of the different,
:15:14. > :15:19.more equal Britain and across to people and we are seeing that many
:15:20. > :15:22.of the policies we happily tied are resonating with people, it is the
:15:23. > :15:30.change for the better people want to see. If you had said six weeks ago,
:15:31. > :15:35.would we be here, I remember getting last that by one of the BBC Radio
:15:36. > :15:42.stations that interviewed me and they said, come on, you do not have
:15:43. > :15:47.a chance of winning this election, you are 20% behind in the polls and
:15:48. > :15:53.you are going to get battered. I said, let us have a bit of optimism
:15:54. > :15:57.and fairness here, because I think when people understand exactly what
:15:58. > :16:02.the Labour Party is about, the vision of a fairer and more equal
:16:03. > :16:06.Britain, we will see that public opinion shift, and that is what has
:16:07. > :16:12.happened in the last six weeks. Is the issue not Jeremy Corbyn the man
:16:13. > :16:22.and people have heard from him directly now. That is part of the
:16:23. > :16:25.reason why peoples have shifted, because the print media is
:16:26. > :16:29.traditionally hostile towards the Labour Party, that has always been
:16:30. > :16:36.the case, and we don't always get a fierce hearing in the media. What we
:16:37. > :16:40.have seen is because of the impartiality rules that govern the
:16:41. > :16:46.broadcast media, that actually people are listening and hearing the
:16:47. > :16:50.real Labour Party message and seeing the real leadership qualities, not
:16:51. > :16:53.what they might read in some sections of the print media. How
:16:54. > :17:01.have you advise Jeremy Corbyn to respond tonight? It is a difficult
:17:02. > :17:07.big and there is a lot to play for. My advice is just to be who you are,
:17:08. > :17:11.because one of the reasons I think people are moving towards the Labour
:17:12. > :17:15.Party is because for two long politics has been stage-managed in
:17:16. > :17:20.this country, we have played by the same rule books on the left and
:17:21. > :17:25.right of British politics, but people are beginning to see we are
:17:26. > :17:30.robots and we sound the same and look the same. Now people are
:17:31. > :17:35.starting... Here we have a Labour manifesto and the Labour top team
:17:36. > :17:41.that does not play by the traditional rule books, they look
:17:42. > :17:47.and sound like ordinary people with a desire to improve our country for
:17:48. > :17:51.the better. What are you saying to those in your own party who said at
:17:52. > :17:55.the beginning of the campaign that the leader was a liability. The
:17:56. > :17:59.thing about a six-week campaign is that we are out there knocking on
:18:00. > :18:03.doors and trying to convince people that there is a better way of doing
:18:04. > :18:09.things, politics is not have to be as it has been in recent years, that
:18:10. > :18:12.is a unifying factor across the Parliamentary Labour Party and the
:18:13. > :18:21.candidates out knocking on doors as we speak. We now that a Labour
:18:22. > :18:25.Government is better than any alternative Conservative Government
:18:26. > :18:31.that is on offer. We want to put that case, to change our country for
:18:32. > :18:37.the better on education, on health, on the economy, making sure our
:18:38. > :18:41.elderly people had dignity in old age, and that is the vision we are
:18:42. > :18:47.putting forward and why people are coming home to the Labour Party.
:18:48. > :18:51.Thank you very much. Now we can speak to Sam, the former director of
:18:52. > :18:58.community is and is for Jeremy Corbyn. We are also joined by a
:18:59. > :19:02.journalist and former Conservative spin doctor. How should Theresa May
:19:03. > :19:09.be approaching tonight? I think it is important, we heard Michael
:19:10. > :19:12.Fallon testifying to that earlier and I think it is interesting how
:19:13. > :19:17.people in your spin room are building up the significance of this
:19:18. > :19:22.evening. It will potentially set the tone to the run-up to the election
:19:23. > :19:27.and bearing that in mind, I would hope, and I'm sure that by Minister
:19:28. > :19:31.Mac has been preparing carefully to make sure she has antlers for some
:19:32. > :19:37.of the areas that have not been answered adequately throughout the
:19:38. > :19:43.campaign, as well as adding some new material to take us through to
:19:44. > :19:49.polling day. -- and sure that Theresa May has been preparing
:19:50. > :19:53.carefully. Jeremy Corbyn faces the same audience and follow-up
:19:54. > :20:07.questions, not what he is normally used to. How would you advise him to
:20:08. > :20:09.deal with that? He's seriously -- she once the Brexit negotiations but
:20:10. > :20:19.she is refusing to say since head-on. She seems to be kowtowing
:20:20. > :20:24.to Donald Trump's climate change decision today. I think Jeremy
:20:25. > :20:30.Corbyn will do very well tonight. Once we have unvarnished genomic
:20:31. > :20:37.cordon, people are realising that he is honest and he has integrity. --
:20:38. > :20:43.unvarnished Jeremy Corbyn. For Theresa May, it is falling apart, it
:20:44. > :20:52.is a disaster. You already hear rumours about the 9th of June. I
:20:53. > :20:56.advise Jeremy Corbyn to take things head-on, be honest, and set out your
:20:57. > :21:01.vision for this country and how were going to transform it for the
:21:02. > :21:06.better. Tax plans that say 95% of people will not pay any more and
:21:07. > :21:12.those at the very top, the super-rich, will pay a little more
:21:13. > :21:17.so we can have more nurses, are Fire Service is not slashed, our Navy and
:21:18. > :21:23.RAF are not better mated and we have 10,000 new police officers on the
:21:24. > :21:28.street under Labour. Is this where you thought Theresa May and the
:21:29. > :21:33.Conservative Party would be at this stage of the campaign? At the start
:21:34. > :21:36.of the campaign at the polls were extraordinary. Speaking to friends
:21:37. > :21:42.of mine at various levels of the Conservative Party, no one believed
:21:43. > :21:50.those polls at face value. People were talking about a Conservative
:21:51. > :21:56.win, but not in those amounts. That said, as I have indicated, I do not
:21:57. > :22:01.think it has been a very skilful campaign, there have been some
:22:02. > :22:05.problems with it, they the focus so much on Jeremy Corbyn and his
:22:06. > :22:09.personality has played to his advantage and we have lost touch
:22:10. > :22:17.slightly with what Theresa May's vision for post-Brexit Britain is
:22:18. > :22:19.about. She was good at the beginning spelling out something quite
:22:20. > :22:25.interesting that appeal to people beyond the Conservative Party, when
:22:26. > :22:28.she first came to power as Prime Minister, and in her speech that she
:22:29. > :22:33.gave to the Conservative Party conference last October. I am hoping
:22:34. > :22:46.we will get bored of that in the final days. Sam, if I can return to
:22:47. > :22:51.you, the attack tactic, will that work in front of an audience who had
:22:52. > :22:58.Jeremy Corbyn in front of them. I will Jeremy Corbyn deal with that?
:22:59. > :23:02.Jeremy Corbyn is about common decency in principle. I have come
:23:03. > :23:09.back from the campaign trail in the north-east of England and what is
:23:10. > :23:12.interesting is that the Labour Party manifesto usually cutting through
:23:13. > :23:17.those working-class voters that it or is that they could go at that,
:23:18. > :23:23.perhaps they voted for Brexit or in the past Ukip, but what I'm finding
:23:24. > :23:28.all the country is they are saying, the Labour Party has an agenda after
:23:29. > :23:33.taking back control of our country properly, rather than giving away
:23:34. > :23:37.all our national assets to foreign bidders. It is an interesting
:23:38. > :23:44.dynamic that the Tories but they keep coming and pick up all the Ukip
:23:45. > :23:48.thoughts and we're finding that lots of those people are saying it is too
:23:49. > :23:53.risky to have the Tories, the dementia tax, the cuts to local
:23:54. > :23:57.schools, people have had enough and they are thinking what the Labour
:23:58. > :24:07.Party has put forward is sensible, costed, and will make their lives
:24:08. > :24:12.better. Finally, is tonight's debate, debate is the wrong word,
:24:13. > :24:19.but her performance tonight, how crucial is it that she does not make
:24:20. > :24:23.a mistake or get something wrong? I think it is very important that we
:24:24. > :24:28.see the best of Theresa May this evening, it is the final one of
:24:29. > :24:33.these set piece debates or interviews and it will set the tone
:24:34. > :24:37.that the next couple of days, but it is important that she puts to rest
:24:38. > :24:43.some of the suggestions that we have heard from Sam on how the economy
:24:44. > :24:49.could support the kind of plans we have heard from Jeremy Corbyn. I
:24:50. > :24:53.have been critical of the focus on Jeremy Corbyn's personality in the
:24:54. > :24:58.campaign, that is been at the expense of picking holes in the
:24:59. > :25:04.Labour Party manifesto and how undeliverable it is. It is important
:25:05. > :25:06.she does that this evening. Thank you both very much for joining us
:25:07. > :25:14.tonight. Joining me is Owen Bennett,
:25:15. > :25:26.deputy political editor And Vicky ran schoolbag Young, our
:25:27. > :25:34.editor the stakes are a large? Jeremy Corbyn has the campaign, but
:25:35. > :25:39.with the momentum comes the chance that the quicker you go the tiniest
:25:40. > :25:46.thing contribute up. If he misspoke or gave the wrong figure again, it
:25:47. > :25:51.could derail the momentum. Theresa May has to get a strong and stable
:25:52. > :25:56.performance, she does not need to be flashy, she does not need to put on
:25:57. > :26:01.a fantastic performance, she just needs to show that she is not
:26:02. > :26:05.worried by the polls, she's taking it in her stride, and I think that
:26:06. > :26:13.will put a lot of boaters' fears to bed. Is this occurs to lose because
:26:14. > :26:19.of that reason? People's have different expectations of Jeremy
:26:20. > :26:24.Corbyn? Even though Labour seem to have this rise in the polls, the
:26:25. > :26:30.Conservative Party are still ahead and there is a long way for the
:26:31. > :26:38.Labour Party to golf. It is very much hers to lead. If could be
:26:39. > :26:43.strong and keep trying to -- could be strong and she keeps trying to
:26:44. > :26:46.see it as a choice between her and Jeremy Corbyn, who do you want
:26:47. > :26:52.running the country, I think that is the line she will go down tonight.
:26:53. > :26:57.Here are pictures of the two leaders arriving here earlier tonight. They
:26:58. > :27:05.have rehearsed, they have done what they can, the difficulty is that
:27:06. > :27:12.this is a Yorkshire audience which is a difficult act. You never know
:27:13. > :27:18.if the question is will curve ball or if they will heckle or what the
:27:19. > :27:22.mood of the room will be. On Monday, the audience were laughing at
:27:23. > :27:28.Theresa May will stop if they start getting on Jeremy Corbyn's back and
:27:29. > :27:33.start booing at him, it will be interesting to see how he copes with
:27:34. > :27:42.that. We will perhaps speak to you later on. The key young is here with
:27:43. > :27:45.me. This is important. Most people are probably just starting to
:27:46. > :27:49.finalise how they are going to vote in this election, the campaign has
:27:50. > :27:53.been going on for weeks but we are getting to that last bit now where
:27:54. > :27:59.people are focusing on who they are going to choose to be their next
:28:00. > :28:03.Prime Minister, and that is what Theresa May will be trying to do,
:28:04. > :28:08.she has been in the role for a year and will be saying that she is the
:28:09. > :28:13.person to lead us into Brexit negotiations, but she cannot have it
:28:14. > :28:17.all her own way, she needs to take questions, so if someone acts about
:28:18. > :28:21.local school funding or a local hospital, she will need to answer
:28:22. > :28:26.that and she cannot do that with sound bites. Jeremy Corbyn has been
:28:27. > :28:30.a backbencher all his life and now he has to convince people that he
:28:31. > :28:35.could be Prime Minister. The body language will be interesting.
:28:36. > :28:38.Neither of these two leaders that they would be in the position that
:28:39. > :28:45.they are six days before the election. The wider point that
:28:46. > :28:49.neither of them, although Pamina Sir has been at the top of Government
:28:50. > :28:57.for many years, she has not done a campaign like this. -- although
:28:58. > :29:01.Theresa May has been at the top. For her, this is the first time she has
:29:02. > :29:08.been exposed to this as well as Jeremy Corbyn. He has been elected
:29:09. > :29:13.twice to the Labour leader, he has done some hustings and debates.
:29:14. > :29:20.Explain the importance of this spin room, because in half an hour this
:29:21. > :29:24.will be busy. Each party has sent a number of people to come here to
:29:25. > :29:29.speak to us that the words, to talk about how they think it went, and
:29:30. > :29:34.how they think the other side did not do well, and they will be
:29:35. > :29:37.pointing at what one or the other is said and why that is significant or
:29:38. > :29:42.could have a big impact on the campaign, so everyone will be
:29:43. > :29:46.watching it very closely. Last time there were difficult questions for
:29:47. > :29:51.David Cameron and Ed Miliband. The format was harder than a lot of
:29:52. > :30:01.leaders shouting at each other. We will be back at 10pm immediately
:30:02. > :30:02.after that programme. At 8:30pm, it is time to go over the road