07/06/2017

:00:07. > :00:08.Hello. It's 9am.

:00:09. > :00:11.I'm Victoria Derbyshire. Welcome to the programme.

:00:12. > :00:14.Well, it's here, the last full day of campaigning

:00:15. > :00:19.Let me know either way and who you think you're

:00:20. > :00:25.We will have all the latest from the main parties as they push

:00:26. > :00:33.Last day of campaigning means our last Election Blind Dates

:00:34. > :00:36.where we've been playing matchmaker to well-known faces who are poles

:00:37. > :00:40.Today it's the turn of former Labour advisor Ayesha Hazarika

:00:41. > :00:48.Things have changed and they have changed dramatically. You know

:00:49. > :00:51.Brexit changes everything. Stop banging on about it for a while and

:00:52. > :00:56.talk about the other issues, the really, really important issues.

:00:57. > :01:01.Also, "you need to do it", the text sent by a woman on trial

:01:02. > :01:03.in America for urging her boyfriend to kill himself.

:01:04. > :01:06.Prosecutors say Michelle Carter drove Conrad Roy to take his own

:01:07. > :01:37.This hour we are talking to a mum who is calling for a vaccine

:01:38. > :01:40.that is exclusively given to girls to be given to boys too.

:01:41. > :01:43.It's to protect against a virus called HPV which can cause

:01:44. > :01:47.different types of cancer and sexually transmitted diseases.

:01:48. > :01:55.Have you got sons and do you want them protected?

:01:56. > :01:59.An official decision has yet to be made as to whether boys should get

:02:00. > :02:01.it. Do get in touch on all the stories

:02:02. > :02:04.we're talking about this morning - use the hashtag Victoria LIVE

:02:05. > :02:07.and If you text, you will be charged Plus have you made up your mind how

:02:08. > :02:12.you are going to vote? Let me know who and why,

:02:13. > :02:14.and if you're still undecided, It's the final day of campaigning

:02:15. > :02:19.in the general election and the party leaders will be

:02:20. > :02:22.on a hectic schedule of visits to key towns

:02:23. > :02:24.and cities across Britain The closing stages of the campaign

:02:25. > :02:28.have been dominated by the issue of security

:02:29. > :02:30.following the London Bridge Our political guru Norman Smith

:02:31. > :02:40.is at Westminster. Who is doing what and where today,

:02:41. > :02:43.Norman? There is just frenetic activity today, so Mrs May started

:02:44. > :02:48.early doors down in Smithfield market. That's the old meat market

:02:49. > :02:54.in Central London, not the place to go if you're a squeamish about

:02:55. > :02:59.coming face-to-face with a cow's carcass first thing in the morning,

:03:00. > :03:04.but Mrs May started there. Jeremy Corbyn is starting out in Glasgow.

:03:05. > :03:09.He's winding his way down through Wales and ends up in his home patch

:03:10. > :03:13.in Islington in Central London and Tim Farron is dotting around to

:03:14. > :03:18.various key target seats for the Lib Dems. Often sort of university towns

:03:19. > :03:24.where he's trying to hoover up some of the Remain support. So that

:03:25. > :03:29.blizzard of last minute activity to claw in as many votes just before

:03:30. > :03:35.election day. Now, news about Diane Abbott. She isn't very well, is she?

:03:36. > :03:39.She isn't, no. I guess a lot of us were sort of raising eyebrows when

:03:40. > :03:44.she pulled out of that woman's hour debate yesterday at the last minute

:03:45. > :03:47.and we all thought aye-aye the Labour leadership told her not to do

:03:48. > :03:50.it because she has been unsteady in some of her public appearances. You

:03:51. > :03:52.remember that time when she had a very difficult time trying to

:03:53. > :03:55.remember the police numbers and how much it was going to cost to

:03:56. > :04:00.implement Labour's policy. This morning, Jeremy Corbyn was asked

:04:01. > :04:05.about Diane Abbott and he said she was still not well and now we've had

:04:06. > :04:08.a statement from Labour saying actually her shadow is going to

:04:09. > :04:14.stand, her number two is going to stand in for her for a few days.

:04:15. > :04:19.That suggests this isn't just passing migraine or a dickie tummy,

:04:20. > :04:23.it suggests Diane Abbott really might be quite ill. It seems she

:04:24. > :04:28.will be out of action for a bit. OK. OK. The question that people like

:04:29. > :04:34.you probably don't like very much, but everybody wants to know! Who is

:04:35. > :04:43.going to win this election, Norman? Oh my god. You might as well ask

:04:44. > :04:47.Mystic Meg! Why ask me. I have got just about every political call

:04:48. > :04:52.wrong in the past five years. I think anything could happen because

:04:53. > :04:56.frankly who knows what people out there are thinking. We seem to live

:04:57. > :05:01.in volatile uncertain times. You think of Brexit. You think of Donald

:05:02. > :05:08.Trump. I would just say fasten your seat belts and hold on and let's

:05:09. > :05:09.see! What a wonderfully,ic and gorgeous answerment more from Norman

:05:10. > :05:12.later. Joanna Gosling is in the BBC

:05:13. > :05:14.Newsroom with a summary That's a good summary of how we're

:05:15. > :05:19.all feeling about it! The Home Office is coming under

:05:20. > :05:22.mounting pressure to explain how one of the London Bridge attackers

:05:23. > :05:25.was able to return to the UK despite The Italian authorities said

:05:26. > :05:29.they had issued warnings about Yousef Zaghba,

:05:30. > :05:30.whom they suspected of supporting the Islamic State group,

:05:31. > :05:33.after he tried to travel to Syria. These are the three men who brought

:05:34. > :05:38.terror to the streets of London The third confirmed

:05:39. > :05:44.as Youssef Zaghba was an Italian national born in Morocco who lived

:05:45. > :05:47.in East London. The 22-year-old wasn't

:05:48. > :05:49.regarded as a security threat by police or MI5,

:05:50. > :05:51.but today questions Zaghba was stopped at

:05:52. > :05:56.Bologna Airport last year Italian police say he was placed

:05:57. > :06:02.on a watch-list with British Border security staff are accused

:06:03. > :06:05.of still allowing him The Home Office has

:06:06. > :06:11.declined to comment. The Australian Government says two

:06:12. > :06:13.of its nationals were among Their names haven't been

:06:14. > :06:18.officially confirmed. Kirsty Boden, a senior

:06:19. > :06:21.nurse at Guy's Hospital, murdered as she ran to help people

:06:22. > :06:23.who had been knocked Described as selfless,

:06:24. > :06:27.caring and heroic. The family of Sara Zelenak,

:06:28. > :06:29.a nanny from Brisbane, She's one of those people that

:06:30. > :06:39.doesn't drink, doesn't do drugs, She's amazing and she's

:06:40. > :06:46.21 years of age. French media have also confirmed

:06:47. > :06:48.the death of Alexandre Pigeard, a Borough market restaurant

:06:49. > :06:52.waiter from Normandy. Sebastien Boulanger's family

:06:53. > :06:54.are travelling to the UK from France to find out what's happened

:06:55. > :06:56.to the chef. Desperate searches and desperate

:06:57. > :06:58.days for so many who found themselves caught up

:06:59. > :07:11.in this tragedy. Our correspondent Sara Smith is at

:07:12. > :07:19.New Scotland Yard. What's the latest? Officers from New

:07:20. > :07:24.Scotland Yard carried out a search warrant in East London, in Ilford

:07:25. > :07:29.overnight. At 1.30am they arrested a 30-year-old man. Now, searches are

:07:30. > :07:33.carrying on at that address as they are at other addresses in East

:07:34. > :07:38.London. This man, this 30-year-old, was arrested on suspicion of

:07:39. > :07:42.commission, preparation, or instigation of terrorist acts and

:07:43. > :07:46.he's being held for questioning at a police station in South London.

:07:47. > :07:52.There are also other arrests yesterday in Barking. So far we know

:07:53. > :07:55.that 12 people have been arrest, who have been arrested have been

:07:56. > :07:59.released without charge. There are two people in custody. There was a

:08:00. > :08:08.man in his 30s arrested in Ireland, in Wexford, just south of Dublin. He

:08:09. > :08:11.is arrested on his connections with one of the killers, Rachid Redouane.

:08:12. > :08:17.There was an arrest made at Heathrow. That's in connection with

:08:18. > :08:20.the Manchester bombings. A 38-year-old man was arrested there.

:08:21. > :08:24.All in all, there are seven people in custody as far as that

:08:25. > :08:28.investigation is concerned. Thank you, Sara.

:08:29. > :08:32.Police investigating the Manchester bombing

:08:33. > :08:36.in which 22 people were killed, have arrested a 38-year-old

:08:37. > :08:40.man at Heathrow Airport in a planned operation.

:08:41. > :08:45.Detectives say they've found evidence that the suicide bomber,

:08:46. > :08:48.Salman Abedi, had stored parts for his device in a white

:08:49. > :08:54.Reports from Iran say a security guard has been killed

:08:55. > :08:56.in a shooting in the country's parliament in Tehran.

:08:57. > :08:59.An armed man is said to have entered the building and opened fire,

:09:00. > :09:07.Across the city, at a this Rhine a suicide bomber reportedly shot

:09:08. > :09:09.several people before detonating explosives.

:09:10. > :09:12.President Trump has spoken to the King of Saudi Arabia

:09:13. > :09:14.to discuss his country's decision to cut ties with Qatar

:09:15. > :09:16.because of its alleged support for extremist groups.

:09:17. > :09:19.Mr Trump had earlier backed the move, saying it could be

:09:20. > :09:21."the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism".

:09:22. > :09:24.A White House spokesman said the President had stressed the need

:09:25. > :09:31.There are calls for the HPV vaccine, which is currently

:09:32. > :09:36.only given to girls, to be received by boys too.

:09:37. > :09:39.The human papilloma virus jab is offered to teenage girls

:09:40. > :09:41.in the UK to protect against cervical cancer.

:09:42. > :09:43.Experts say there is increasing evidence on links between HPV

:09:44. > :09:52.After 10am, we'll be talking to a mum, who's had

:09:53. > :09:54.a HPV-related cancer herself, and wants her sons

:09:55. > :09:58.to receive the vaccine as well as her daughter.

:09:59. > :10:01.The American-based taxi firm, Uber, says it has sacked 20 employees

:10:02. > :10:03.after an investigation into complaints of sexual

:10:04. > :10:04.harassment, bullying and other issues.

:10:05. > :10:07.Uber has been under fire over its treatment of women staff

:10:08. > :10:09.since a former employee wrote a scathing blog post

:10:10. > :10:17.Most complaints came from workers at the firm's San Francisco base.

:10:18. > :10:19.A 14-year study of nearly a million people at risk

:10:20. > :10:21.of developing heart disease, found those who were married

:10:22. > :10:25.fared much better than those who were single.

:10:26. > :10:29.Researchers from Aston Medical School found married people

:10:30. > :10:30.with high cholesterol were 16% more likely to be alive at

:10:31. > :10:38.It also found that married people with diabetes had a 14%

:10:39. > :10:43.And married patients with high blood pressure were 10%

:10:44. > :10:46.Researchers believe, although they cannot prove it,

:10:47. > :10:51.that a loving spouse may encourage you to stay fit and well.

:10:52. > :11:00.It could be a whole range of things ranging from having someone, a close

:11:01. > :11:05.relative to be able to offer you support in taking your medications,

:11:06. > :11:11.being your rehab programmes and things and also seeking help from a

:11:12. > :11:15.doctor when you know you need it and in particular men are notoriously

:11:16. > :11:18.bad for doing that and it's having a spouse can help with that.

:11:19. > :11:22.That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 9.30am.

:11:23. > :11:28.Thank you very much. One viewer in Dundee says I normally vote SNP, but

:11:29. > :11:33.I will be voting Conservative because the SNP want to stay in the

:11:34. > :11:36.European Union. And this text from Adrian, "I'm voting Labour. We have

:11:37. > :11:40.had years of austerity with no improvement." Get in touch with us

:11:41. > :11:44.throughout the morning. Who are you going to vote for and why and if

:11:45. > :11:53.you're undecided tell me what it is that you're weighing up at this late

:11:54. > :11:56.stage. If you're texting, you will be charged at the standard network

:11:57. > :12:00.rate. Let's get some sport

:12:01. > :12:02.with Hugh Woozencroft. The British and Irish Lions

:12:03. > :12:04.are in action on their tour of New Zealand -

:12:05. > :12:18.how's it going? One media outlet in New Zealand

:12:19. > :12:23.describing Warren Gatland's side as reaching levels of mead OK rity.

:12:24. > :12:26.Before the match there was a minute's silence held in memory of

:12:27. > :12:35.the victims of the recent terror attacks in London and Manchester.

:12:36. > :12:47.The Lions faced down a traditional chant. The Blues showed some class.

:12:48. > :12:55.The Blues went ahead early on. The Lions had a try narrowly ruled out

:12:56. > :13:00.before the back row bundled over to square things up. A conversion and

:13:01. > :13:04.further penalty edged the Lions ahead. There are ten minutes before

:13:05. > :13:08.half-time and that one the Lions much improved so far, but still

:13:09. > :13:13.plenty to play for in the coming minutes.

:13:14. > :13:19.The FA seem determined to tackle hooliganism.

:13:20. > :13:23.Tell us about the bans they've handed out to supporters.

:13:24. > :13:35.Two supporters club members made Nazi gestures in the match against

:13:36. > :13:37.germ in March. There was booing of the German National Anthem and

:13:38. > :13:40.singing about the Second World War as well ahead of the match in

:13:41. > :13:46.Dortmund. The FA has taken a strong line now. The two fans who made Nazi

:13:47. > :13:49.references towards German fans have been handed lifetime bans from the

:13:50. > :13:54.England supporters travel club. That's the only way to get England

:13:55. > :13:59.tickets away from homement they are forbidden to attend all of their

:14:00. > :14:03.country's away games. 27 people have seen their membership suspended for

:14:04. > :14:08.varying lengths of time. Six handed written warnings and other cases

:14:09. > :14:13.pending as well and the FA taking a strong stance. They're determined to

:14:14. > :14:15.tackle what they fear is a new generation of hooliganism.

:14:16. > :14:20.Now, you've got some really dramatic pictures to show us

:14:21. > :14:26.What's the latest from Sir Ben Ainslie's challenge?

:14:27. > :14:30.They are into the semifinal of qualifying taking on New Zealand,

:14:31. > :14:36.but look at this for a moment of drama yesterday. New Zealand's

:14:37. > :14:39.catamaran suddenly capsizing forwards on the run-in to the start

:14:40. > :14:44.of one of the races. Some crew were left suspended in the boat's hull

:14:45. > :14:47.above the water. Three were thrown overboard, but all the crew were

:14:48. > :14:52.safe and accounted for. Some cuts and bruises, of course, but they did

:14:53. > :14:57.say it was entirely their fault. BA R captain Sir Ben said he'd never

:14:58. > :15:03.seen anything like it in his 30 years of racing. It does mean they

:15:04. > :15:08.got a helping hand, Ben Ainslie's team. They trail New Zealand 3-1 in

:15:09. > :15:13.the best of nine series. Plenty of work. They should be back on the

:15:14. > :15:17.water in Bermuda later on if the weather conditions are suitable.

:15:18. > :15:21.Time for the sixth and final edition of our Election Blind Dates.

:15:22. > :15:24.Over the last week, we've been playing matchmaker to some

:15:25. > :15:33.well-known faces who are poles apart when it comes to politics.

:15:34. > :15:35.Nigel Farage and Rachel Johnson, Peter Stringfellow and Mary Beard,

:15:36. > :15:38.Gina Miller and Godfrey Bloom - our unlikely couples have ended up

:15:39. > :15:40.having some fascinating conversations and quite often,

:15:41. > :15:47.You've told us that you've really appreciated seeing people

:15:48. > :15:50.who disagree with each other on some fundamental issues, talking about

:15:51. > :15:55.Today, the SNP's Tommy Sheppard - who set up The Stand Comedy club -

:15:56. > :15:59.She was once advisor to Labour's Ed Miliband,

:16:00. > :16:02.But when the conversation turns to the question

:16:03. > :16:11.of Scottish independence, will either of them be laughing?

:16:12. > :16:19.There's an election on and people are talking politics.

:16:20. > :16:21.So what happens when you send two people with opposing

:16:22. > :16:31.I'm like, oh my god, this has been so long.

:16:32. > :16:37.You see people that are sat there and can go and work

:16:38. > :16:41.They choose to go and sign on - it angers me.

:16:42. > :16:54.When people stand at the dispatch box and tell me there's

:16:55. > :16:56.more money in education, I look around and wonder

:16:57. > :16:59.Because it's not in my children's school.

:17:00. > :17:17.I went on a date with a guy and he drank so much.

:17:18. > :17:26.He did then said to me, you couldn't pay for the cab, could you?

:17:27. > :17:38.Gordon Brown, Harriet Harman, Ed Miliband - that went really well.

:17:39. > :17:41.Now I'm a political commentator and a stand-up comedian.

:17:42. > :17:44.When I was growing up in the West of Scotland you had religion,

:17:45. > :17:46.the Labour Party and you had Rangers and Celtic.

:17:47. > :17:52.I think I'm the kind of person on a date I'll have strong initial

:17:53. > :17:55.Do you think sparks are going to fly?

:17:56. > :17:58.I'm the SNP candidate for Edinburgh East.

:17:59. > :18:03.It's been a long time since I've been on a date.

:18:04. > :18:07.I'm really curious as to who it's going to be, you know.

:18:08. > :18:10.Who would you not want to be going on a date with?

:18:11. > :18:18.Is there anyone I wouldn't go on a date with?

:18:19. > :18:20.Do you know, I'm that desperate, probably not.

:18:21. > :18:35.Do you know what, I thought it was going to be Alex Salmond.

:18:36. > :18:43.We're going to agree with each other too much, I think.

:18:44. > :18:51.Are you ready for Prime Minister Corbyn?

:18:52. > :19:03.You know, given that she was 24 points ahead

:19:04. > :19:05.in the polls, he started off the campaign with a photocall

:19:06. > :19:09.in a toilet, it was sort of like, everyone was, I think we know

:19:10. > :19:12.Well, here we are, six days out and it's incredible.

:19:13. > :19:21.She's gone from strong and stable to not willing

:19:22. > :19:27.Also, she's had such a stinker of a campaign.

:19:28. > :19:32.What's interesting, right, she's been a lucky general.

:19:33. > :19:34.She didn't even have a proper leadership contest.

:19:35. > :19:36.She had to go up against Andrea Leadsom.

:19:37. > :19:38.That is like winning Wimbledon against a wheelie bin.

:19:39. > :19:47.The thing is, Woman's Hour is not an easy game.

:19:48. > :19:49.People make the assumption that women's media is like a soft ride.

:19:50. > :19:52.They do it with mumsnet and with Woman's Hour.

:19:53. > :19:53.They sometimes do it with women's magazines.

:19:54. > :19:58.And actually it's just really insulting to think that

:19:59. > :20:01.because you have a female journalist the questions aren't going to be

:20:02. > :20:06.But to be honest, the fact that Theresa May won't even turn up to do

:20:07. > :20:09.I feel she's in a witness protection scheme now.

:20:10. > :20:15.I was on This Week last night with Andrew Neil.

:20:16. > :20:27.So I spent - not hours, days - it was like cramming for an exam.

:20:28. > :20:29.I knew the price of every single spending commitment

:20:30. > :20:45.I could have just gone in there and chatted

:20:46. > :20:49.I've got to eat something which I'm not going to get all over myself.

:20:50. > :20:52.I think we're all cautious of not having a Miliband moment.

:20:53. > :20:58.So, listen, you're in touch with the right wing

:20:59. > :21:06.Don't call it the right wing of the Labour Party!

:21:07. > :21:08.That's not fair, the right wing of the Labour Party.

:21:09. > :21:10.Well, there's a right and left of everything.

:21:11. > :21:14.Well, people who just don't agree with Corbyn.

:21:15. > :21:17.Well, those people, what are they going to do if Corbyn

:21:18. > :21:21.Another five years of just trying to knife him

:21:22. > :21:25.That's going to be boring, apart from anything else.

:21:26. > :21:28.On that, we are a party that exists to win parliamentary seats,

:21:29. > :21:31.that is what the Labour Party exists to do, to get into power, to do

:21:32. > :21:36.So if you tick that box, everything else is forgiven?

:21:37. > :21:38.No, I'm not saying that, hear me out.

:21:39. > :21:41.What I will say is that Corbyn has had a good election campaign.

:21:42. > :21:44.So I think the truth is, even if he loses the election

:21:45. > :21:46.and even if loads of Labour MPs lose their seats, I reckon

:21:47. > :21:54.he will still be around as the leader of the Labour Party.

:21:55. > :21:57.Why do you want another Scottish referendum?

:21:58. > :21:59.Don't you think the people of Scotland have had

:22:00. > :22:05.Things have changed quite dramatically.

:22:06. > :22:09.The United Kingdom that people voted to be part of in 2014 is not

:22:10. > :22:15.If you go to a shop and you buy something, and you get it home...

:22:16. > :22:21.If you go to a shop, you buy something, you take it

:22:22. > :22:24.home and you open it up, and what you find is not

:22:25. > :22:28.what it says on the packet, well, you take it back and you say,

:22:29. > :22:32.And I think a lot of people are finding that the decision

:22:33. > :22:34.they took in 2014 isn't what it said on the packet.

:22:35. > :22:39.There's been a lot of democracy in Scotland.

:22:40. > :22:41.I think the good thing about that is people

:22:42. > :22:43.are really energised about politics in Scotland.

:22:44. > :22:46.But I think the plea from people is, can we just move off the obsession

:22:47. > :22:55.Nicola Sturgeon is like the Beyonce of Scottish politics.

:22:56. > :22:57.She's a woman obsessed with her independence.

:22:58. > :23:01.That's a great soundbite but it's not true.

:23:02. > :23:06.And let's just see some of that focus on the big day job stuff.

:23:07. > :23:10.Every time somebody goes to the chemist and gets

:23:11. > :23:13.a prescription and doesn't pay ?8.60 - that's doing the day job.

:23:14. > :23:16.Every time a kid in a Scottish university doesn't get a bill

:23:17. > :23:18.for ?27,000 for their fees, that's doing the day job.

:23:19. > :23:22.If you look at Nicola's speech, she was very very clear,

:23:23. > :23:24.that now was not the time for a second

:23:25. > :23:27.We need to know the shape of Brexit first.

:23:28. > :23:37.It's like saying "I don't want to have this conversation

:23:38. > :23:40.now, I want to have it in three years' time."

:23:41. > :23:43.Well, wait and have it in a few years' time.

:23:44. > :23:46.We're all frustrated with Theresa May about Brexit.

:23:47. > :23:50.She's treating the public like potatoes, best kept in the dark.

:23:51. > :23:53.We don't know how Brexit is going to pan out.

:23:54. > :23:58.And my goodness, we've had plenty of democracy.

:23:59. > :24:00.And people have the right to change their minds.

:24:01. > :24:03.I thought it was a once in a generation?

:24:04. > :24:07.There's no point asking the question again if no-one

:24:08. > :24:09.has changed their mind or if circumstances haven't changed.

:24:10. > :24:16.Stop banging on about it for a while and talk

:24:17. > :24:22.about the other issues, the really, really important issues.

:24:23. > :24:24.You know, you have been in government for a long

:24:25. > :24:28.There are lots of issues to be dealt with.

:24:29. > :24:33.There is much more that needs to be done but I would ask

:24:34. > :24:39.One, that the actual performance of the health service in Scotland

:24:40. > :24:47.The second thing to note, we do that within a framework

:24:48. > :24:55.of Scottish Parliament operating within the rules and within budgets

:24:56. > :24:59.which are mainly set in number 10 and number 11 Downing Street.

:25:00. > :25:06.My dad was in hospital recently and was lying on a trolley

:25:07. > :25:09.in a corridor for quite a while before he got into bed.

:25:10. > :25:12.So you can see the health service north and south of the border.

:25:13. > :25:16.You can't sit there with a straight face and tell me that it's

:25:17. > :25:19.just as bad in Scotland as it is in England.

:25:20. > :25:22.Just because people are not rioting in the streets,

:25:23. > :25:24.that's not a barometer that everything's going well.

:25:25. > :25:27.We've had stuff out recently, literacy and numeracy

:25:28. > :25:30.We've got children from poor backgrounds not

:25:31. > :25:34.Well, actually, the figures are improving for children

:25:35. > :25:36.from working-class backgrounds getting to university.

:25:37. > :25:40.Even your education minister has said there has been an issue.

:25:41. > :25:42.The point is, in Scotland, you have a Scottish Government

:25:43. > :25:47.that is focused on doing something about those problems.

:25:48. > :25:49.Admits that they are there, understands why they are there.

:25:50. > :25:51.Whereas in England, what's the education policy here?

:25:52. > :25:53.The Tories just want to bring back grammar schools.

:25:54. > :25:58.Which by definition isn't going to help most people.

:25:59. > :26:03.Are you guys worried that you're going to lose some seats

:26:04. > :26:06.I can't believe I'm even saying those words.

:26:07. > :26:17.We used to talk about there being more giant pandas than Tory MPs.

:26:18. > :26:23.Scotland had become a Tory free zone.

:26:24. > :26:26.Truth is, there has always been Scottish Tories

:26:27. > :26:33.We're seeing them be more confident and turning out in greater

:26:34. > :26:34.numbers than they've done for some years.

:26:35. > :26:38.And do you think part of that is down to the fact that

:26:39. > :26:40.Ruth Davidson, she's quite a big figure, isn't she?

:26:41. > :26:47.Do you think that has had a big factor in it?

:26:48. > :26:50.I think she's been very effective at sort of humanising

:26:51. > :27:12.I like to have a laugh and I can joke about stuff

:27:13. > :27:20.Having done stand-up gigs for a long time, PMQs has an element

:27:21. > :27:22.of the late-night show at the Comedy Store when it's

:27:23. > :27:27.And I do have to say, it strikes fear and terror

:27:28. > :27:39.into the heart of every politician that has to do it.

:27:40. > :27:41.And I think there, if you can have a good line

:27:42. > :27:44.or something funny to use, it can be quite powerful.

:27:45. > :27:48.The funniest bits are not the scripted one-liners.

:27:49. > :27:50.The funniest bits are the adlibs or the heckles.

:27:51. > :27:53.Do you remember there was this terrible thing when David Cameron

:27:54. > :27:55.was under loads of pressure, it was around the Murdoch

:27:56. > :27:59.And it turns out he had been horse riding on Rebekah Brooks' horse.

:28:00. > :28:02.And one of our backbenchers just started going, "Neigh!"

:28:03. > :28:05.And it was so juvenile, but I'm afraid everyone absolutely

:28:06. > :28:08.And the Prime Minister just looked ridiculous.

:28:09. > :28:14.And then there was that thing with the animal's head.

:28:15. > :28:23.During the Remain campaign for the referendum, we went

:28:24. > :28:25.on a cross party bus, myself, Harriet Harman,

:28:26. > :28:27.lots of other people including David Cameron.

:28:28. > :28:29.And we went to this farm in the South West

:28:30. > :28:34.And the press team basically said to us beforehand,

:28:35. > :28:36.don't even think about getting a picture of the Prime

:28:37. > :28:57.I'll put in the bulk of it which is ironic.

:28:58. > :28:59.Shall we have a discussion about the Barnett formula now?

:29:00. > :29:04.We'll put in equal measures and look forward

:29:05. > :29:05.to an equal partnership between Scotland and

:29:06. > :29:22.The independence thing does obviously annoy me

:29:23. > :29:24.because the SNP is obsessed with the independence question.

:29:25. > :29:29.They are a sort of single issue party.

:29:30. > :29:36.I feel like we're going round and round and round again.

:29:37. > :29:37.It's like deja vu, it's like Groundhog Day.

:29:38. > :29:41.I expect I haven't changed your mind and you haven't changed my mind.

:29:42. > :29:45.I think Tommy and I could be really good friends but I don't think we've

:29:46. > :29:51.It's just as well politics isn't the only thing in life, isn't it?

:29:52. > :30:17.Allen says these election Blind dates have been lol. That was the

:30:18. > :30:21.last in the election blind date series. Do not worry, you can catch

:30:22. > :30:27.up on all of our couples on our programme page.

:30:28. > :30:34.And let us know what you think using the hashtags election blind

:30:35. > :30:48.And with the news that one of the London attackers

:30:49. > :30:55.was able to enter the UK, despite being on an EU-wide

:30:56. > :31:03.watch list - we ask "how safe are our borders?"

:31:04. > :31:07.Here's Joanna in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:31:08. > :31:14.It is the final day of campaigning in the general election. The closing

:31:15. > :31:18.stages of the campaign have been dominated by the issue of security,

:31:19. > :31:22.following the London Bridge attack. Theresa May has said if the

:31:23. > :31:26.Conservatives are re-elected she would scrap any Human Rights laws

:31:27. > :31:29.that prevent her from introducing tougher anti-terror measures. The

:31:30. > :31:33.former Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, accused her of trying to make

:31:34. > :31:38.up for her lacklustre election campaign.

:31:39. > :31:41.Jeremy Corbyn said the Shadow Home Secretary, Diane Abbott is unwell

:31:42. > :31:47.and is taking a break from the campaign. He said Diane Abbott who

:31:48. > :31:48.withdrew from a debate on Woman's Hour had received totally unfair

:31:49. > :31:53.levels of abuse. The Home Office is coming under

:31:54. > :31:56.mounting pressure to explain how one of the London Bridge attackers

:31:57. > :31:59.was able to return to the UK despite The Italian authorities

:32:00. > :32:03.said they had issued warnings about Yousef Zaghba

:32:04. > :32:04.after they suspected that he was a supporter

:32:05. > :32:07.of the Islamic State group who'd In a further development,

:32:08. > :32:12.detectives have arrested a 30-year-old man on suspicion

:32:13. > :32:14.of terror offences in Police investigating

:32:15. > :32:19.the Manchester bombing in which 22 people were killed have

:32:20. > :32:22.arrested a 38 year-old man at Heathrow Airport

:32:23. > :32:27.in a planned operation. An inquest into the 22 deaths

:32:28. > :32:32.at the Manchester Arena Reports from Iran say seven people

:32:33. > :32:36.have been killed and four have been taken hostage at the country's

:32:37. > :32:38.parliament in Tehran. An armed man is said to have entered

:32:39. > :32:41.the building and opened fire, Across the city, at a shrine housing

:32:42. > :32:46.the tomb of Ayatollah Khomenei founder of the Republic,

:32:47. > :32:48.a suicide bomber reportedly shot several people before

:32:49. > :32:52.detonating explosives. President Trump has spoken

:32:53. > :32:55.to the King of Saudi Arabia to discuss his country's decision

:32:56. > :32:57.to cut ties with Qatar because of its alleged support

:32:58. > :33:00.for extremist groups. Mr Trump had earlier backed

:33:01. > :33:03.the move, saying it could be "the beginning of the end

:33:04. > :33:05.to the horror of terrorism". A White House spokesman said

:33:06. > :33:08.the President had stressed the need That's a summary of the latest BBC

:33:09. > :33:15.News - more at 10am. The British and Irish Lions

:33:16. > :33:30.are trailing in the second match of their Tour

:33:31. > :33:35.to New Zealand. They were leading

:33:36. > :33:41.against the Auckland Blues at half-time thanks

:33:42. > :33:44.to a try from CJ Stander. As part of the Football

:33:45. > :33:46.Association's vow to tackle hooliganism, they've handed out

:33:47. > :33:49.lifetime bans for the first time - two supporters who made Nazi

:33:50. > :33:51.gestures at the friendly against Germany in Dortmund in March

:33:52. > :33:54.will never again be allowed Two wins from two took

:33:55. > :33:57.England's cricketers through to the semi-finals

:33:58. > :33:59.of the Champions Trophy. They beat New Zealand

:34:00. > :34:02.by 87 runs in Cardiff and they'll top their group

:34:03. > :34:04.and knock out Australia, if they beat them at

:34:05. > :34:07.Edgbaston on Saturday. And there was a dramatic race win

:34:08. > :34:09.for Sir Ben Ainslie's team in the America's Cup semi-finals

:34:10. > :34:12.when the New Zealand boat capsized - all the crew members were fine -

:34:13. > :34:16.and they still lead the British team 3-1, with the first

:34:17. > :34:17.to five going through. That's all the sport for now. I will

:34:18. > :34:31.have more at 10am. Thank you very much for letting me

:34:32. > :34:35.know who you're going to vote for. This viewer says, "I'm switching to

:34:36. > :34:40.Labour. The Conservatives have failed me in every way." Sheila

:34:41. > :34:45.says, "I'm voting Conservative." This text from Sam, "I believe that

:34:46. > :34:49.democracy only votes based on our values. Therefore, I'm voting Lib

:34:50. > :34:53.Dems even though they are unlikely to make it into Government. They

:34:54. > :34:59.will never have a chance to lead the country if they don't gain any

:35:00. > :35:03.momentum." Keep those coming in. If you're undecided, what is it that

:35:04. > :35:08.you're weighing up? What will it be that finally makes the decision for

:35:09. > :35:23.you? Let me know. Send me an e-mail. Or you can tweet which is using the

:35:24. > :35:25.hashtag Victoria Live. Khuram Butt's uncle in Pakistan has

:35:26. > :35:30.been talking to our correspondent. I condemn first of all this incident

:35:31. > :35:37.in this brutal action. I am feeling ashamed

:35:38. > :35:44.talking about this. Innocent people are

:35:45. > :35:50.killed in this action. I have very deep sympathies

:35:51. > :35:52.with all the victims, innocent victims, even

:35:53. > :35:55.I would like to say no religion Khuram Butt was born in Pakistan,

:35:56. > :36:12.but moved to London as a child. His uncle said on his last trip

:36:13. > :36:18.in 2013 he noticed he had become more religious,

:36:19. > :36:33.but not extreme. When he came he started off reading

:36:34. > :36:38.prayers and he had a beard also. Before that these symptoms,

:36:39. > :36:41.I did not find in him. He found out about Butt's

:36:42. > :36:43.involvement on the Butt's mother had seen this photo

:36:44. > :36:58.on the news and recognised her son. I received a call from the UK,

:36:59. > :37:01.from my sister's home, and she was weeping and she only

:37:02. > :37:04.said that something I started to listen

:37:05. > :37:13.to the BBC and CNN. Sometimes they show a flash of that

:37:14. > :37:19.person who was stabbing. I also recognised

:37:20. > :37:24.that this is Khuram. Are you angry with Khuram now?

:37:25. > :37:27.Do you feel angry towards him? I can't explain in words.

:37:28. > :37:34.I don't have any words. What message do you have

:37:35. > :38:09.for the families of the victims? They are on my mind, even I don't

:38:10. > :38:17.know their names, but I think they are my relatives, my brothers. I

:38:18. > :38:23.don't know their names, their nationalities and why they were

:38:24. > :38:34.killed. They came to the city to make their shopping, to make their

:38:35. > :38:46.dinners. Who allows anyone to hit them and to die them? That's the

:38:47. > :38:55.uncle of Khuram Butt, one of the London attackers.

:38:56. > :38:56.Meanwhile it's emerged that the third London terrorist,

:38:57. > :38:59.Youseff Zaghba, was on an EU-wide watch list after being stopped

:39:00. > :39:04.It's believed he was travelling to Syria and it's reported he told

:39:05. > :39:06.officials, he "wanted to be a terrorist".

:39:07. > :39:08.Somehow despite being on that database, he was

:39:09. > :39:16.We can talk now to the former head of the UK Borders

:39:17. > :39:27.I'm really interested on behalf of our audience for you to talk through

:39:28. > :39:31.what is supposed to happen when an individual is added to this EU-wide

:39:32. > :39:40.database. First of all, what does that mean? First of all, there isn't

:39:41. > :39:45.an EU-wide database. There are something like 26 different

:39:46. > :39:55.databases in the EU. And the UK does have access to some of those. So I'm

:39:56. > :40:00.waiting to hear precisely what data was shared like everybody else. We

:40:01. > :40:04.do have a national UK database and that is accessible by a range of

:40:05. > :40:08.different agencies who can put data directly on to that and that would

:40:09. > :40:16.enable our officers at the UK border to intervene if they are asked to do

:40:17. > :40:20.so by an agency. So as we speak we know that this person was put on a

:40:21. > :40:24.watch-list by the Italians, but we don't know what they mean by the

:40:25. > :40:28.watch-list and we don't know whether or not that was shared routinely

:40:29. > :40:32.with us or whether it was passed as an individual risk so there is a lot

:40:33. > :40:35.of information to come out. I think it would be wrong to jump to any

:40:36. > :40:40.conclusions. That's fair enough. It was put as I understand it, on

:40:41. > :40:46.something called the Schengen database. What is that? There is a

:40:47. > :40:50.Schengen information system. As you know the Schengen group, we are not

:40:51. > :40:54.part of the Schengen group. That's part of a group of countries that

:40:55. > :40:59.don't have borders between them and they have to have a central

:41:00. > :41:05.information system that enables them to share data. There is however the

:41:06. > :41:10.Schengen INAUDIBLE

:41:11. > :41:15.Which was agreed in the treaty of Amsterdam which does enable the UK

:41:16. > :41:18.and other EU countries have access to some components of the Schengen

:41:19. > :41:21.information system, but I don't know whether in this case that part of

:41:22. > :41:28.the Schengen system was shared with the UK or not.

:41:29. > :41:33.Right, OK. From what you're describing then, unless Youssef

:41:34. > :41:37.Zaghba was on the UK watch-list then he wouldn't necessarily be stopped

:41:38. > :41:43.at an airport when he arrives here, is that correct? Absolutely. He is a

:41:44. > :41:47.European citizen as I understand it. I don't know if he travelled on his

:41:48. > :41:51.European passport or on his identity card, but either way, he benefits

:41:52. > :41:55.from freedom of movement. He would not have been asked any questions

:41:56. > :42:01.and there would have been simply a document check either through our

:42:02. > :42:05.E-gates or by an officer which would be a straightforward watch-list

:42:06. > :42:09.check. So unless somebody somewhere, from another agency or from you

:42:10. > :42:13.know, or from the EU had given us the data and uploaded that on to our

:42:14. > :42:18.watch-list there would have been no grounds for a Border Force officer

:42:19. > :42:21.to stop him and again, of course, when people put data on our

:42:22. > :42:27.watch-lists there are different types of codes and some are called

:42:28. > :42:30.stopping and non stopping codes. That would send a signal to border

:42:31. > :42:34.officers as to whether or not in the opinion of the person putting the

:42:35. > :42:37.data on that there was sufficient risk to stop that person then the

:42:38. > :42:43.Border Force would stop them and refer to whatever agency was the

:42:44. > :42:47.source. From a lay person's point of view, I'm a member of the public, I

:42:48. > :42:52.pay my taxes and I travel and I get on planes to places like Italy and

:42:53. > :42:56.back again, if someone is arrested at an Italian airport, suspected of

:42:57. > :43:01.travelling to Syria and apparently says to officials, "I want to be a

:43:02. > :43:07.terrorist." I might have assumed and wrongly as you've pointed out that,

:43:08. > :43:13.there would be an EU-wide database where this individual's name would

:43:14. > :43:17.be placed so that were he to arrive at any other airport in the EU, of

:43:18. > :43:22.which we are still a member, it would flash on a computer screen. Is

:43:23. > :43:29.that naive of me? Yes. No, that's not an unreasonable assumption for

:43:30. > :43:34.you to make. We had a conference in London Bridge where we had

:43:35. > :43:41.representatives from the European Union talking about it. It doesn't

:43:42. > :43:44.follow that because somebody is detected on outbound and there is a

:43:45. > :43:47.sufficient reason for that person to be circulated across the EU or

:43:48. > :43:53.elsewhere. It is really a problem and it was identified in Paris and

:43:54. > :43:59.Brussels of how the EU deals with this. That's integrated to a single

:44:00. > :44:06.system and how risks are spread across all of the member states and

:44:07. > :44:10.it is not just the EU, we have if not more intelligence from the US,

:44:11. > :44:15.Canada and Australia. Border agencies are always looking to

:44:16. > :44:21.gather intelligence and data and there has been 5,000 EU passport

:44:22. > :44:24.holders that we know have been to Syria and come back again, but they

:44:25. > :44:30.haven't all been arrested and I think this is the problem that we're

:44:31. > :44:34.facing now is how do we track people like this, who are on the radar, but

:44:35. > :44:38.the evidence isn't sufficient to enable us to stop them or arrest

:44:39. > :44:42.them and that's going to all come out in the coming days as the

:44:43. > :44:48.investigation unfolds. Is the current system working? Well, I can

:44:49. > :44:54.only speak from my experience. I was the head of the Border Force in the

:44:55. > :45:00.period around the London 2012 Olympics. I was responsible for the

:45:01. > :45:04.vetting and checking of many, many people coming to this country at a

:45:05. > :45:07.time when we were operating an alert level of severe and that worked well

:45:08. > :45:11.and we were able to mitigate a significant number of threats, but

:45:12. > :45:14.this is a moving feast and I do hope that the public bear with the

:45:15. > :45:20.intelligence services and with the Border Force. We are quite good at

:45:21. > :45:25.this, but there is no such thing I am afraid anywhere in the world such

:45:26. > :45:30.thing as a perfect border and we will need to learn lessons from

:45:31. > :45:43.this. Nor a perfect database. Thank you, Tony Smith. Really interesting,

:45:44. > :45:46.former head of the UK Border Force. And a -- a...

:45:47. > :45:49.We'll hear more about the 20 year-old woman on trial in America

:45:50. > :45:51.for allegedly urging her boyfriend to take his own life via text.

:45:52. > :45:53.So there's just one more day of campaigning

:45:54. > :45:57.For the last few weeks, we've enlisted the help of Twitter

:45:58. > :46:00.watchers at the think tank Demos, to mine millions of tweets and tell

:46:01. > :46:04.Twitter users are a small part of the electorate and this

:46:05. > :46:07.non-scientific analysis is not about how people are going to vote.

:46:08. > :46:11.And what they have been talking about.

:46:12. > :46:15.Today it's all about their patterns of behaviour over the last 6 weeks.

:46:16. > :46:20.Josh Smith, you've been with us for that time.

:46:21. > :46:30.Let's go back six weeks. Good morning, yes. A lifetime ago. It has

:46:31. > :46:33.been a long and short campaign. We have been looking at the discussion

:46:34. > :46:38.on generic hashtags since the campaign was announced. These are

:46:39. > :46:45.the terms that the public were using about the election. The blue line

:46:46. > :46:49.near is the discussion of the Conservatives and Theresa May, the

:46:50. > :46:52.red line is the discussion of Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party and the

:46:53. > :46:58.grey line is absolutely everybody else combined. What we see here,

:46:59. > :47:03.there are two things that stick out. The first thing is doing this kind

:47:04. > :47:05.of analysis, it lets you see what people are actually concerned with.

:47:06. > :47:11.Or at least what they are talking about. So we have seen spikes when

:47:12. > :47:14.the Labour manifesto was launched, and some foreign policy speeches

:47:15. > :47:18.that Jeremy Corbyn has given. After Manchester, when the campaigning

:47:19. > :47:22.relaxed, there was a halt in campaigning and we saw a similar

:47:23. > :47:28.halt on Twitter. At the second thing that is striking about this is this

:47:29. > :47:32.grey line, which might be expected to uptake as the Labour and

:47:33. > :47:35.Conservative lines have over the last week, it has remained pretty

:47:36. > :47:43.constant or even declined as we approach the election. This has been

:47:44. > :47:49.released pricing. You been looking at what 400 supporters of some of

:47:50. > :47:53.the parties have been talking about. Absolutely. So what we have tried to

:47:54. > :47:59.do, let me take you back to the beginning of May, two weeks into the

:48:00. > :48:02.campaign. Everybody has got over their surprise that the election has

:48:03. > :48:06.been called at all. And these are words that Labour were using during

:48:07. > :48:10.that week which are characteristic of that week's discussions. This is

:48:11. > :48:17.what Labour supporters are talking about six weeks ago was. Yes. We

:48:18. > :48:22.have removed the words from conservative supporters. This is one

:48:23. > :48:26.party's view. And you can see there is quite a wide discussion, we're

:48:27. > :48:29.still talking about fox hunting, education, the media and fraud.

:48:30. > :48:33.There is one discussion that dominates and this is where Labour

:48:34. > :48:38.have traditionally felt comfortable, and that is the NHS. Quite a

:48:39. > :48:46.detailed discussion about health, nurses, hospitals etc. Fast forward

:48:47. > :48:50.to this week, and this discussion is still focused on the NHS but the

:48:51. > :48:55.shifting patterns of conversation behind that have changed. So all

:48:56. > :48:58.parties, supporters from the Conservatives, labour and all the

:48:59. > :49:03.other parties, we saw them reacting to the events of the last few weeks,

:49:04. > :49:06.London Bridge and Manchester. Condemning them, expressing horror

:49:07. > :49:13.and anguish. And again, because this is what Labour is talking about, we

:49:14. > :49:16.have removed those that were not about this. The way they have talked

:49:17. > :49:22.about the attack has intended to concentrate on cuts, on decisions

:49:23. > :49:29.that the Conservatives have made that might have contributed to this

:49:30. > :49:32.kind of extremism. And what about the 400 Conservative supporters,

:49:33. > :49:37.what have they been talking about, starting six weeks ago? At the

:49:38. > :49:44.beginning of May we have a plural discussion with people talking about

:49:45. > :49:46.Diane Abbott, there is a feeling of confidence after gains in the

:49:47. > :49:52.mayoral leadership elections, but the main theme tying this discussion

:49:53. > :49:57.together is the thing which the election was meant to be all about,

:49:58. > :50:00.and that is Brexit, the European Union, Brussels. That is what the

:50:01. > :50:04.Conservatives were talking about at the beginning of May. Again, fast

:50:05. > :50:09.forward to this week and we are living in a different world. Two

:50:10. > :50:14.things that are interesting, first the Conservatives are discussing

:50:15. > :50:17.much more this week than before the polling, which shows a narrowing of

:50:18. > :50:23.the leaves which the Conservatives hold over Labour, and they are using

:50:24. > :50:26.words like you guv, observation, polling, discussing that, wondering

:50:27. > :50:31.should they be worried? But the main discussion again has been around

:50:32. > :50:34.London Bridge, it has been around terrorism and extremism, and instead

:50:35. > :50:39.of talking about policies that Britain has taken leading up to this

:50:40. > :50:42.attack, they are talking about the terrorists themselves, the

:50:43. > :50:47.extremists themselves, and the need for us to do something? Thank you

:50:48. > :50:54.for your company over the last six weeks. Let me bring you this news.

:50:55. > :50:59.Norman Smith was reporting earlier from Westminster that Diane Abbott

:51:00. > :51:03.is not very well, and is going to be replaced in her role as Labour's

:51:04. > :51:08.home affairs spokesperson. This news just in. Apparently the period of

:51:09. > :51:15.being replaced is indefinite, according to at Millbank. She is

:51:16. > :51:19.being replaced and that period of time is indefinite. Still to come on

:51:20. > :51:24.the programme, vaccinating boys against HPV. We will tell you

:51:25. > :51:25.exactly what HPV is and we will be hearing from some of those affected

:51:26. > :51:34.by it. A 20 year old woman in the States

:51:35. > :51:37.is being accused of using texts to encourage her boyfriend

:51:38. > :51:40.to kill himself. 20 year old Michelle Carter has gone

:51:41. > :51:42.on trial in Massachusetts, and is accused of voluntary

:51:43. > :51:44.manslaughter. In dozens of messages,

:51:45. > :51:49.Carter is alleged to have repeatedly urged 18 year old Conrad Roy III

:51:50. > :51:54.to kill himself. On the morning of his death,

:51:55. > :51:57.she wrote: "You need to do it, Conrad.

:51:58. > :52:03.You're ready and prepared." NBC Boston reporter John Moroney has

:52:04. > :52:12.been following the case and he joins us on the phone now from outside

:52:13. > :52:20.Tauton Juvenile Court Thank you for talking to us, John.

:52:21. > :52:26.Can you hear me OK? I can, thank you. Tell our British audience what

:52:27. > :52:33.this trial centres around. The centres around this relationship

:52:34. > :52:37.between these two young people. This happened three years ago, when

:52:38. > :52:43.Michelle Carter was 17. Conrad Roy III was 18. They have a relationship

:52:44. > :52:47.that had developed on social media, in what is really the focus of

:52:48. > :52:52.prosecutors and also the defence, these text messages that they shared

:52:53. > :52:56.over a period of time. I want point in time, the prosecution saying

:52:57. > :53:02.yesterday that she sent him dozens and dozens of messages, 40 in

:53:03. > :53:06.particular, asking him continually when he was going to do it, when he

:53:07. > :53:13.was going to take his life, because it was something he had talked about

:53:14. > :53:17.doing for a while, apparently, and in fact in 2012 he attempted to take

:53:18. > :53:23.his own life at that point in time but was unsuccessful. But then they

:53:24. > :53:27.developed a relationship, and Michelle Carter was troubled

:53:28. > :53:33.herself. This is when the text started. And she encouraged him,

:53:34. > :53:40.badgering him almost to take his life. That is what the prosecution

:53:41. > :53:47.is arguing. And what are the prosecution saying was her motive?

:53:48. > :53:51.They are saying that she was a student at Glenville high school and

:53:52. > :53:56.was not necessarily that popular but by becoming the grieving girlfriend,

:53:57. > :54:04.that she would become popular. She did after his death establish and

:54:05. > :54:08.run benefits to raise money and raise awareness about suicide, not

:54:09. > :54:12.mentioning or telling anyone that she had had these conversations and

:54:13. > :54:21.text messages with Conrad, putting his family, after he had died, she

:54:22. > :54:26.told his mother that she was sorry about what had happened, and that

:54:27. > :54:32.she had done everything she could to prevent him from taking his own

:54:33. > :54:36.life. I will read some more of the text messages for our audience. I

:54:37. > :54:42.already mentioned one in the introduction. You need to do it,

:54:43. > :54:46.Conrad. Michelle Carter texted him that on the morning of the 12th of

:54:47. > :54:51.July. The day that he took his own life. You are ready and prepared.

:54:52. > :54:55.All you have to do is turn the generator on and you will be free

:54:56. > :54:58.and happy. She told him and another message, you are finally going to be

:54:59. > :55:03.happy in heaven with no more pain. It is OK to be scared and it is

:55:04. > :55:07.normal. I mean, you are about to die. Then this: I thought you wanted

:55:08. > :55:10.to do this. The time is right and you are ready. Just do it, baby.

:55:11. > :55:16.You have explained it was so she could raise funds and raise

:55:17. > :55:17.awareness, but is the prosecution also saying it is about her getting

:55:18. > :55:30.attention? That's correct. She noticed that she

:55:31. > :55:36.would receive sympathy as a grieving girlfriend and she took it a step

:55:37. > :55:39.further, by going out and soliciting, raising awareness about

:55:40. > :55:45.suicide. But it was all motivated by the fact that, according to the

:55:46. > :55:48.prosecution, she wanted attention. But you read the text messages and

:55:49. > :55:56.they were read in court yesterday, and they have been out to some

:55:57. > :56:01.degree but to give them read in court was shocking. Her defence team

:56:02. > :56:05.yesterday, the day before yesterday, decided that they would not have a

:56:06. > :56:12.jury trial, that they would only go before a judge who will decide

:56:13. > :56:16.whether or not she's guilty. And I think a lot of the speck elation is

:56:17. > :56:23.that because these text messages are so difficult to hear for a jury,

:56:24. > :56:27.that perhaps they did not want to do that, to have a jury consider it. So

:56:28. > :56:33.instead they are going to a bench trial where a judge will make the

:56:34. > :56:41.determination because hopefully the defence feels, he will take the

:56:42. > :56:46.emotion out of it when a verdict is rendered. The audience will

:56:47. > :56:56.understandable manslaughter means, we have a charge of manslaughter

:56:57. > :57:00.when the person did not have any intent. What has Michelle Carter

:57:01. > :57:02.been charged with? She has been charged with involuntary

:57:03. > :57:08.manslaughter, which is just a different use of the language. In

:57:09. > :57:18.terms of involuntary manslaughter, I am not a lawyer myself but it is

:57:19. > :57:25.somewhat similar. Thank you very much, John. John Maroni, outside the

:57:26. > :57:29.court in Massachusetts. And we will obviously bring you the defence when

:57:30. > :57:38.that is a in the court case. Let me reduce the messages from you run the

:57:39. > :57:42.country. 24 hours ahead of the voting in the general election.

:57:43. > :57:46.Marilyn has e-mailed to say, I am voting Lib Dem. In a final,

:57:47. > :57:51.desperate attempt to vent our exit from the EU, which was a decision

:57:52. > :57:55.based on so much misinformation. And this from Angela. I am undecided, I

:57:56. > :57:59.want a party that is going to support our police officers and

:58:00. > :58:03.given the resources they need, and I feel that our laws need changing on

:58:04. > :58:08.terrorism. The police should be able to arrest people on their radar and

:58:09. > :58:10.extremists to make it a safer world. Thank you for those. Particularly if

:58:11. > :58:16.you are undecided, we're very interested to hear what it is that

:58:17. > :58:23.you are weighing up, 24 hours before the polls open. You can message us

:58:24. > :58:27.on Twitter, or on Facebook. The latest news and sport is on the way

:58:28. > :58:29.at ten o'clock but before that, the weather, with Matt Taylor. And it is

:58:30. > :58:38.called. It certainly has been. And a bit

:58:39. > :58:42.stormy. The wind is particularly strong, unseasonably so for June.

:58:43. > :58:46.The best of the gusts on the Aberdeenshire coast. With the trees

:58:47. > :58:51.in full leaf, and has led to seems like this one, captured in Somerset.

:58:52. > :58:56.It was not just about the cold and the wind yesterday. It was also

:58:57. > :59:00.about the rain. Edinburgh, for instance, had well over a month's

:59:01. > :59:05.worth following just a day and a half. 83 millimetres in total. It

:59:06. > :59:08.has stopped raining here now at least but as our weather watchers

:59:09. > :59:11.have shown us, it is still raining across parts of eastern Scotland.

:59:12. > :59:17.This was Aberdeenshire a short while ago. But it is now in the minority

:59:18. > :59:21.because more blue skies are overhead. A better start of the day

:59:22. > :59:25.for the vast majority, probably the best day of the week for many. If

:59:26. > :59:30.you look across the satellite picture, we can see clear skies.

:59:31. > :59:35.Cloud in eastern Scotland producing heavy rain and gusty wind still

:59:36. > :59:42.around. But the wind will ease, and the rain is pushing away. At the

:59:43. > :59:45.same time, it is clouding over. Towards the end of the afternoon we

:59:46. > :59:51.will see better conditions across eastern Scotland. It could be still

:59:52. > :59:54.cloudy, damp and windy across Orkney, Shetland and Caithness.

:59:55. > :59:58.Elsewhere, dry with sunny spells. The morning sunshine will give way

:59:59. > :00:02.to more cloud in Northern Ireland, staying dry until late in the day.

:00:03. > :00:07.Across much of England and Wales, it will be a sunny afternoon. The

:00:08. > :00:13.sunshine turning hazy, but temperatures up on yesterday's

:00:14. > :00:19.values. South West Wales, Devon and Cornwall, finishing the afternoon

:00:20. > :00:21.with outbreaks of rain. Through tonight, the rain spreading

:00:22. > :00:24.erratically. Heaviest and most persistent on the hills. A bit of

:00:25. > :00:29.rain for Northern Ireland and southern Scotland but it will be dry

:00:30. > :00:34.for much of Scotland and Northern Ireland. With clear skies, a chilly

:00:35. > :00:45.night. Elsewhere, it should be a mild start.

:00:46. > :00:48.Sorry about that Matt. A lot more rain and then it will be sunny.

:00:49. > :00:52.Thank you very much. It's 10am.

:00:53. > :01:00.I'm Victoria Derbyshire. Less than 24 hours until you get to

:01:01. > :01:06.vote in Tom's UK general election. We will bring you reports from

:01:07. > :01:11.around the country and the latest in our Vic's van share.

:01:12. > :01:17.John Ashworth doesn't rule out throwing his hat into the leadership

:01:18. > :01:20.hat. Can't tell me how much a prescription costs. I was lucky

:01:21. > :01:25.enough to go to university before we had fees. I don't know what I would

:01:26. > :01:27.have done if I had come out with all those debts which young people kout

:01:28. > :01:32.of university with today. We'll

:01:33. > :01:44.hear more from Jon later. The HPG jab is given to teenage

:01:45. > :01:45.girls, but not boys, we will be asking why they don't get the same

:01:46. > :01:51.treatment? The battle for Raqqa -

:01:52. > :01:56.the so-called Headquarters of Islamic State -

:01:57. > :02:07.forces make a final push. Joanna Gosling is in the BBC

:02:08. > :02:12.Newsroom with a summary The final day of campaigning

:02:13. > :02:16.in the general election will see the party leaders on a hectic

:02:17. > :02:19.schedule of visits to key towns and cities across Britain

:02:20. > :02:22.in a last push for votes. Theresa May made an early morning

:02:23. > :02:24.visit to Smithfield meat market in central London with her husband

:02:25. > :02:27.Philip in the first The Labour Leader, Jeremy Corbyn,

:02:28. > :02:30.started his day addressing supporters in Glasgow and has

:02:31. > :02:32.a further six events The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn,

:02:33. > :02:38.has said the Shadow Home Secretary, Diane Abbott, is unwell

:02:39. > :02:40.and is taking a break He said Ms Abbott, who withdrew

:02:41. > :02:47.from a debate on Women's Hour yesterday, had received "totally

:02:48. > :02:49.unfair" levels of abuse. Lyn Brown will stand

:02:50. > :02:51.in for Diane Abbott as shadow home secretary for what Labour says

:02:52. > :02:57.is an "indefinite" period of time. The Home Office is coming under

:02:58. > :03:00.mounting pressure to explain how one of the London Bridge attackers

:03:01. > :03:03.was able to return to the UK despite The Italian authorities

:03:04. > :03:09.said they had issued warnings about Yousef Zaghba

:03:10. > :03:12.after they suspected that he was a supporter

:03:13. > :03:15.of the Islamic State group who had In a further development,

:03:16. > :03:19.detectives have arrested a 30-year-old man on suspicion

:03:20. > :03:21.of terror offences in Police investigating

:03:22. > :03:25.the Manchester bombing in which 22 people were killed,

:03:26. > :03:27.have arrested a 38-year-old man at Heathrow Airport

:03:28. > :03:32.in a planned operation. He's the 19th person to be arrested.

:03:33. > :03:35.Seven are still in custody. An inquest into the 22 deaths

:03:36. > :03:38.at the Manchester Arena Reports from Iran say seven

:03:39. > :03:52.people have been killed. The state media says one of the

:03:53. > :04:05.attackers blew himself up. Across the city, at a shrine housing

:04:06. > :04:07.the tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini, founder of the Republic,

:04:08. > :04:10.a suicide bomber reportedly shot several people before

:04:11. > :04:11.detonating explosives. President Trump has spoken

:04:12. > :04:13.to the King of Saudi Arabia to discuss his country's decision

:04:14. > :04:16.to cut ties with Qatar because of its alleged support

:04:17. > :04:18.for extremist groups. Mr Trump had earlier backed

:04:19. > :04:20.the move, saying it could be "the beginning of the end

:04:21. > :04:23.to the horror of terrorism". A White House spokesman said

:04:24. > :04:25.the President had stressed the need There are calls for the HPV vaccine,

:04:26. > :04:29.which is currently only given to girls, to be received

:04:30. > :04:31.by boys too. The human papilloma virus jab

:04:32. > :04:34.is offered to teenage girls in the UK to protect

:04:35. > :04:36.against cervical cancer. But experts say there is increasing

:04:37. > :04:38.evidence on links between HPV After 10am, we'll be talking

:04:39. > :04:42.to a mum, who has had a HPV-related cancer

:04:43. > :04:44.herself, and wants her sons to receive the vaccine

:04:45. > :04:51.as well as her daughter. The American-based taxi firm, Uber,

:04:52. > :04:58.says it's sacked 20 employees after an investigation

:04:59. > :04:59.into complaints of sexual harassment, bullying

:05:00. > :05:01.and other issues. Uber has been under fire

:05:02. > :05:03.over its treatment of women staff since a former employee wrote

:05:04. > :05:05.a scathing blog post Most complaints came from workers

:05:06. > :05:12.at the firm's San Francisco base. That's a summary of the latest BBC

:05:13. > :05:20.News - more at 10.30am. Well, the difficulty of the Lions

:05:21. > :05:27.tour to New Zealand is becoming Of course, we knew the Test Series

:05:28. > :05:31.against the double world champions would be tough,

:05:32. > :05:36.but after a narrow win in their first match,

:05:37. > :05:39.they're currently in a real battle. Super Rugby side Auckland Blues had

:05:40. > :05:46.eight All Blacks in the starting The Lions responded well -

:05:47. > :05:55.Ireland back row CJ Stander bundled The Lions looked like they'd be up

:05:56. > :06:00.at half-time but Sonny Bill Williams fortunate try has

:06:01. > :06:01.put the Blues ahead. They lead 15-10 with around 20

:06:02. > :06:04.minutes to play at Eden Park. England cricket captain Eoin Morgan

:06:05. > :06:07.says they must "beat the best" in Australia on Saturday

:06:08. > :06:09.if they're to be considered contenders to win

:06:10. > :06:11.the Champions Trophy. They reached the semi-finals thanks

:06:12. > :06:13.to a 87-run victory over Half-centuries from Alex Hales,

:06:14. > :06:17.Joe Root and Joss Buttler guided England past the 300 mark

:06:18. > :06:20.before Liam Plunkett took four wickets to finish

:06:21. > :06:33.off the Kiwis' chase. If we're truly going to be

:06:34. > :06:35.contenders for this tournament we need to beat the best teams and

:06:36. > :06:43.Australia are one of the best teams. They always are going into a white

:06:44. > :06:48.ball tournament. They seem to produced limited overs at will so to

:06:49. > :06:50.go into a game like that with no other attitude than winning is very

:06:51. > :06:53.important to us. The Football Association

:06:54. > :06:55.has handed out lifetime bans for the first time,

:06:56. > :06:57.after two supporters made Nazi gestures at England's

:06:58. > :06:58.friendly against Germany The FA has vowed to tackle

:06:59. > :07:02.what it fears is a new In all, 27 fans have

:07:03. > :07:07.had their membership suspended. The supporters' club is the only way

:07:08. > :07:12.to obtain tickets to away matches. Great Britain won their first race

:07:13. > :07:15.in the America's Cup semi-finals in the most

:07:16. > :07:18.dramatic of circumstances. After going 3-0 down

:07:19. > :07:21.to New Zealand, Sir Ben Ainslie's team finally registered

:07:22. > :07:27.when their opponents capsized Luckily all of their

:07:28. > :07:36.crew members were OK. Our first thought was for the safety

:07:37. > :07:41.of the sailors on the boat and yeah, looking at the footage since, you

:07:42. > :07:45.know, it's clear they had a misjudgement on the daggerboard and

:07:46. > :07:49.lifted it out of the water too much and ran into an aggressive pitch. I

:07:50. > :07:54.don't think anyone is passing criticism because the boats are so

:07:55. > :07:58.tough to sail and it could happen to anyone. The most important thing is

:07:59. > :08:03.the crew is safe and they will come back and the fight continues.

:08:04. > :08:05.The Renault Formula One team have revealed that Robert Kubica has

:08:06. > :08:08.tested an F1 car for the first time since a rallying accident in 2011

:08:09. > :08:13.Renault posted pictures on Twitter of Kubica

:08:14. > :08:16.at a session in Spain, saying, "So guys, we need to come

:08:17. > :08:17.clean about something. It's true.

:08:18. > :08:22.It really is Robert Kubica, back in one of our cars after six years."

:08:23. > :08:25.They didn't reveal how quick he was, but it is an encouraging

:08:26. > :08:29.sign for one of the most popular drivers around.

:08:30. > :08:35.That's all the sport for now. We will be back with an update on the

:08:36. > :08:39.Lions at 10.30am. Over the course of the election I've

:08:40. > :08:42.been giving politicians from some of the main parties lifts

:08:43. > :08:44.between their campaign meetings. It has been quite a responsibility,

:08:45. > :08:48.honestly! The fourth and final passenger

:08:49. > :08:51.in our Vic's Van Share series is the man who hopes to run the NHS

:08:52. > :08:54.in England and Wales Speaking last week, before

:08:55. > :08:57.the London Bridge attack, Labour's Jon Ashworth told me

:08:58. > :09:01.about the stand-up row he had with Jeremy Corbyn,

:09:02. > :09:05.losing his dad to alcoholism and confirmed Labour

:09:06. > :09:07.would lift the freeze on some benefits despite this not

:09:08. > :09:12.being in their manifesto. He also failed to rule out

:09:13. > :09:15.throwing his hat in the ring to lead his party one day,

:09:16. > :09:18.but will his singing help I just want to sing songs

:09:19. > :09:54.and pretend to be Peter Kay. That's the only reason

:09:55. > :09:57.I've agreed to do it. Don't do the boring

:09:58. > :10:01.policy questions. So, the IFS, the Institute

:10:02. > :10:07.for Fiscal Studies, independent, respected, as you know,

:10:08. > :10:10.have said that if you, if Labour win the election then

:10:11. > :10:16.the poorest 30% of households will suffer a significant hit

:10:17. > :10:19.in their income because you are not promising to reverse some

:10:20. > :10:21.of the cuts to benefits If you're going to be building more

:10:22. > :10:30.houses which is what we want to do, if you're going to be investing

:10:31. > :10:33.in wages, giving people a pay increase by increasing the minimum

:10:34. > :10:36.wage to ?10 an hour, obviously that will lift some people

:10:37. > :10:39.out of benefits, but it will mean more money coming

:10:40. > :10:41.into the Exchequer. But are you going to reverse

:10:42. > :10:46.the cuts to child tax credits? Well, we've opposed the cuts

:10:47. > :10:48.to child tax credits. Are you going to reverse them

:10:49. > :10:51.if you win the election? We cannot say we're going to reverse

:10:52. > :10:54.every single cut that's taken So you're not going to reverse

:10:55. > :10:57.the cuts to child tax credits? Are you going to lift the freeze

:10:58. > :11:00.on working age benefits? Look, benefits won't need to be

:11:01. > :11:08.frozen under a Labour government because we're going to put

:11:09. > :11:10.the money into... We're going to lift the freeze

:11:11. > :11:15.on some of the benefits, yes. That's why we've allocated

:11:16. > :11:16.this extra ?2 billion. You might well borrow

:11:17. > :11:19.?250 billion over ten years to invest in infrastructure,

:11:20. > :11:21.in roads and new hospitals and in infrastructure,

:11:22. > :11:22.in big building projects. How much will the economy grow

:11:23. > :11:27.if you spend, if you borrowed ?250 billion and spent

:11:28. > :11:34.it on infrastructure? Well, the IFS, funnily enough,

:11:35. > :11:37.have said we would grow the economy by a percentage higher

:11:38. > :11:39.than what the Conservatives Although I don't have that

:11:40. > :11:45.particular figure in front of me. But they certainly were saying

:11:46. > :11:50.we would grow the economy more. When borrowing rates are so low,

:11:51. > :11:54.I think you can invest in the infrastructure

:11:55. > :11:56.of the country, you can invest in schools and hospitals

:11:57. > :11:58.and road-building and extending Our levels of investment

:11:59. > :12:08.in infrastructure are terrible. When compared Europe

:12:09. > :12:10.and other countries. People are worried about adding

:12:11. > :12:12.to the debt pile, though. The nation's debt pile.

:12:13. > :12:15.?250 billion would add to it. If you can do it, in a way

:12:16. > :12:18.by which by the end of the period you've got debts as a proportion

:12:19. > :12:22.of GDP coming down, it seems to me sensible to be investing

:12:23. > :12:23.in the infrastructure. Do you know how many council homes

:12:24. > :12:27.the last Labour government built? I've not got that figure

:12:28. > :12:30.on me at the moment. It's about 7,800 under

:12:31. > :12:42.the last Labour government. Margaret Thatcher's government built

:12:43. > :12:45.around 17,000 in one year. Are you shocked that her government

:12:46. > :12:48.built more council homes in one year than under the entire period

:12:49. > :12:53.of office that New Labour was in? No, I'm not shocked,

:12:54. > :13:00.because when we came into government in 97,

:13:01. > :13:02.the housing stock in this country was in such a state

:13:03. > :13:04.that the priority for the first period of the government

:13:05. > :13:07.was to invest in upgrading Me and my wife have a mortgage

:13:08. > :13:14.on our house in Leicester. Yes, but we're paying

:13:15. > :13:23.a mortgage on it. Why are you planning

:13:24. > :13:32.to spend ?56 billion on the university tuition

:13:33. > :13:35.fees of students and ?37 billion We just don't think it's fair that

:13:36. > :13:38.students are racking up Even the sons and daughters of chief

:13:39. > :13:42.executives, bankers, property millionaires,

:13:43. > :13:43.you want to pay their university tuition fees,

:13:44. > :13:45.when they can afford it? A highly educated population

:13:46. > :13:47.contributes to the good I was lucky enough to go

:13:48. > :13:56.to university before we had fees. I just don't know what I would have

:13:57. > :13:59.done if I'd come out with all those debts

:14:00. > :14:01.which young people come out You've said you will give NHS staff

:14:02. > :14:05.a pay rise, how much, A percentage rise is

:14:06. > :14:13.about half a billion, 2% rise is about ?1 billion,

:14:14. > :14:15.so we think it's affordable. Is that cost part of your ?37

:14:16. > :14:20.billion going into the NHS? That is part of the money

:14:21. > :14:23.going into the NHS, yes, but we think it's deliverable,

:14:24. > :14:25.based on the calculations OK, two years ago you failed to vote

:14:26. > :14:35.against the Government's Welfare Bill, and that was the bill that cut

:14:36. > :14:39.the benefit cap from 26,000 to 23,000, that abolished

:14:40. > :14:41.legally-binding child-poverty targets, that cut housing

:14:42. > :14:48.benefit to the young. That was the position

:14:49. > :14:52.of the Labour Party. You cannot have a principled

:14:53. > :14:58.opposition if you are I followed the position of the front

:14:59. > :15:03.bench because I'm a loyal I'm a Labour MP who gets

:15:04. > :15:07.on and supports the Labour Party. The position of the Labour Party

:15:08. > :15:10.front bench was to support an amendment which said,

:15:11. > :15:12."We reject this bill." Well, I suspect the position

:15:13. > :15:19.would be different this time, so we would not vote the same

:15:20. > :15:23.way this time. How do you think the campaign

:15:24. > :15:29.is going for Labour at this point? I think the Conservatives thought

:15:30. > :15:31.they could take people for granted, that they could glide through this

:15:32. > :15:34.election with trite slogans, and there is a feeling

:15:35. > :15:36.they have been trying to take When you are driving

:15:37. > :15:41.around, campaigning, in your car with your team,

:15:42. > :15:52.what do you sing? It's really funny -

:15:53. > :15:54.I go out campaigning, like the North-East or wherever,

:15:55. > :16:00.and you often get picked up by a Labour Party volunteer

:16:01. > :16:03.and they want to talk about policy, but I like to plug in my iPhone

:16:04. > :16:06.and sing along to cheesy music and think I am Peter

:16:07. > :16:08.Kaye in Car Share. # Whatever it takes

:16:09. > :16:28.is what I'm going to do. # And we can build

:16:29. > :16:51.this thing together. # When this world runs out of

:16:52. > :17:08.lovers # Nothing's gonna stop us,

:17:09. > :17:12.nothing's gonna stop us now. Nothing's gonna stop you,

:17:13. > :17:21.except potentially Theresa May? I think I have just ended my career

:17:22. > :17:26.by singing that in such a daft way, but anyway, you've got to have a bit

:17:27. > :17:30.of fun in an election campaign. Does that represent

:17:31. > :17:31.how you are feeling, "Nothing's gonna stop us,

:17:32. > :17:33.not even the Conservatives I don't know, it's

:17:34. > :17:37.just a bit of fun. We've got to stop

:17:38. > :17:39.Theresa May, I think Jeremy Corbyn would be

:17:40. > :17:42.a better Prime Minister? Hang on a minute,

:17:43. > :17:48.I have just asked you. Jeremy Corbyn is

:17:49. > :17:50.principled and honest. Would Jeremy Corbyn be

:17:51. > :17:54.a better Prime Minister? You have spent your whole

:17:55. > :18:10.adult life in politics, you started off as a researcher -

:18:11. > :18:12.what were you next? Then a deputy political secretary,

:18:13. > :18:19.then a political secretary, then head of campaigns,

:18:20. > :18:21.then a candidate, then an MP. You've never had a proper

:18:22. > :18:29.job in the real world? People who work in

:18:30. > :18:36.politics, they are jobs. We still have to pay the mortgage,

:18:37. > :18:39.I still have to get the kids from school and get them

:18:40. > :18:41.breakfast in the morning. I'm from a very normal

:18:42. > :18:43.working-class background, my mum was a barmaid,

:18:44. > :18:46.my dad was a croupier in a casino. A lot of my life I spent

:18:47. > :18:49.looking after a father, Weekends, as a teenager I would go

:18:50. > :19:01.back to stay with my dad, I would open the fridge

:19:02. > :19:03.and it was just big bottles of white wine

:19:04. > :19:06.and cans of beer, no food. I would have to go

:19:07. > :19:13.and sort it out myself. I went home one Christmas

:19:14. > :19:15.and my dad said, "I'm off, He literally just went off

:19:16. > :19:24.to Thailand, I didn't see him again. I got the call two years later,

:19:25. > :19:27.saying that he was dead. And it was drink, he had been

:19:28. > :19:34.drinking a bottle of whiskey a day. So you're right, I have been

:19:35. > :19:37.a special adviser and researcher and all the rest of it,

:19:38. > :19:39.but I have had some Do you want to have a crack

:19:40. > :19:53.at the leadership one day? We've got a leader

:19:54. > :19:55.of the Labour Party. Do you want to have a

:19:56. > :19:59.crack at it one day? There are loads of Labour MPs who

:20:00. > :20:20.would fancy their chances one day. It is my dream job, every day I feel

:20:21. > :20:28.honoured that I got it, and I am hoping the people

:20:29. > :20:32.in my constituency re-elect me, but all of the other jobs

:20:33. > :20:35.in politics, I'll have to see You are in politics to make

:20:36. > :20:39.a difference, to change You will think, "What a cliche," but

:20:40. > :20:45.actually that is what motivates me. If that means I'm a Health

:20:46. > :20:48.Secretary, Shadow Health Secretary, or a different role,

:20:49. > :20:52.we'll see where it goes. Yeah, I know politicians are now

:20:53. > :21:03.meant to say yes, make it look like they had an interesting

:21:04. > :21:06.life, but I didn't. Sorry, I know I will get

:21:07. > :21:11.the Corbynistas tweeting me, having a right go at me,

:21:12. > :21:14.but Gordon gave me a job. He gave me a job when I was a young

:21:15. > :21:22.man, he gave me an opportunity, I'll always have

:21:23. > :21:26.a loyalty to Gordon. Finish the line of this song,

:21:27. > :21:30."I'm in love with the shape of you." It is going to be

:21:31. > :21:34.really obvious now? The biggest-selling track of this

:21:35. > :21:37.year, 18 weeks at number one. "I'm in love with the shape of you,

:21:38. > :21:50.push and pull like a magnet do." "Although my heart is falling too,

:21:51. > :21:59.I'm in love with the shape of you." "I was working as a waitress

:22:00. > :22:08.in a cocktail bar." # I was working as a waitress

:22:09. > :22:11.in a cocktail bar when I met you. Oh, no, it's one of those questions

:22:12. > :22:31.where you catch us out. Everybody is saying,

:22:32. > :22:32.Shadow Health Secretary, They are all going to be

:22:33. > :22:37.tweeting about it now. How many times have Leicester City

:22:38. > :22:40.been finalists in the FA Cup? Name me a band that

:22:41. > :22:50.you love from the 1980s. I love singing along

:22:51. > :22:53.to cheesy songs from the 80s, like Together In Electric Dreams,

:22:54. > :22:56.or a bit of Madonna. Do you know the words

:22:57. > :23:03.to Like A Virgin? Last time you had an argument

:23:04. > :23:11.with Jeremy Corbyn? Probably when he took me off

:23:12. > :23:13.the National Executive Committee. Was it just you and him

:23:14. > :23:23.shouting at each other? We had words, let's

:23:24. > :23:27.put it like that. To be blunt, on some

:23:28. > :24:15.of the votes I voted the way I'm sure victor Dharmesh said that

:24:16. > :24:19.John Ashworth could sing. She lied! -- Victoria Derbyshire said.

:24:20. > :24:26.So today is the final day of political campaigning

:24:27. > :24:28.before you cast your votes in the General Election tomorrow.

:24:29. > :24:56.Here's a look back at the past 7 weeks of campaigning.

:24:57. > :24:59.I have just chaired a meeting of the cabinet where we agreed

:25:00. > :25:01.that the Government should call a general election.

:25:02. > :25:04.Oh, for God's sake, honestly, I can't stand this.

:25:05. > :25:06.There's too much politics going on at the moment.

:25:07. > :25:17.Since I became Prime Minister I have said there should be no

:25:18. > :25:20.But now I have concluded that the only way to guarantee

:25:21. > :25:23.certainty and stability for the years ahead is to hold this

:25:24. > :25:28.election and seek your support for the decisions I must take.

:25:29. > :25:31.I welcome the opportunity for us to put the case to the people

:25:32. > :25:33.of Britain to stand up against the Government

:25:34. > :25:36.and its failed economic agenda, which has left our NHS in problems,

:25:37. > :25:42.our schools underfunded, so many people uncertain.

:25:43. > :25:45.It is very clear that the Prime Minister's announcement is one

:25:46. > :25:48.all about the narrow interests of her own party, not the interests

:25:49. > :25:54.We want to put a case out there to the people of Britain

:25:55. > :25:57.of a society that cares for all, an economy that works for all,

:25:58. > :26:05.It is an opportunity for the people of this country to change

:26:06. > :26:08.the direction of this country, to decide that they do not want

:26:09. > :26:11.a hard Brexit, or to keep Britain in the single market,

:26:12. > :26:13.and indeed an opportunity for us to have a decent,

:26:14. > :26:36.strong opposition in this country that we desperately need.

:26:37. > :26:38.With the right Brexit deal secured, my mainstream Government

:26:39. > :26:41.Whatever your age or situation, people are under pressure

:26:42. > :26:51.Now more than ever, Scotland needs strong SNP voices at Westminster.

:26:52. > :26:57.Plaid Cymru exists to defend and build up our country.

:26:58. > :27:00.We have shown time and again you do not need the keys

:27:01. > :27:05.to Number Ten to open the door to change.

:27:06. > :27:10.I believe in our great country, I believe in British values,

:27:11. > :27:13.The Government I lead will build a Britain

:27:14. > :27:19.Labour is guaranteeing the triple lock to protect pensioners' incomes.

:27:20. > :27:22.Can you tell the British people tonight that you support

:27:23. > :27:28.We're going ahead with the programme that has been

:27:29. > :27:39.Listen, my views on nuclear weapons are well known.

:27:40. > :27:42.Does North Korea receive money from the UK aid budget?

:27:43. > :27:50.We have got to tackle and address and challenge extremism

:27:51. > :27:54.I believe very strongly that we have to do that

:27:55. > :28:01.We mustn't scapegoat the Muslim community.

:28:02. > :28:03.You tried to take Personal Independence Payments away

:28:04. > :28:05.from people with disabilities and then you turned yourselves

:28:06. > :28:14.There is no extra payment you don't want to add to,

:28:15. > :28:17.no tax you don't want to rise, but we have to concentrate our

:28:18. > :28:19.resources on the people who need it most.

:28:20. > :28:21.We want to see corporation tax reduced, not raised,

:28:22. > :28:24.because if you raise it, companies will leave this country.

:28:25. > :28:33.If Jeremy cared about having enough money to spend on those

:28:34. > :28:37.who need it the most, to raise living standards,

:28:38. > :28:43.he would not have trooped through the lobbies

:28:44. > :28:45.with the Conservatives and Ukip to trigger Article 50

:28:46. > :28:53.Our schools are underfunded, our hospitals are overcrowded,

:28:54. > :28:56.our students are saddled with debt, there is a growing housing crisis.

:28:57. > :28:59.People on the lowest incomes have been hit by welfare cuts.

:29:00. > :29:01.We will always provide that safety net where it is needed.

:29:02. > :29:05.I will give you the figure in a moment.

:29:06. > :29:10.You've announced a major policy and you don't know

:29:11. > :29:14.Can I give you the exact figure in a moment?

:29:15. > :29:40.Why should the public trust anything you say or any of your policies

:29:41. > :29:49.when you have a track record of broken promises and backtracking?

:29:50. > :29:55.Why have you never regarded the IRA as terrorists?

:29:56. > :29:58.My wage slips from 2009 reflect exactly what I am earning today.

:29:59. > :30:01.How can that be fair in light of the job that we do?

:30:02. > :30:12.We have had to take some hard choices across the public

:30:13. > :30:14.sector in relation to public-sector pay restraint.

:30:15. > :30:17.But there isn't a magic money tree we can shake that suddenly provides

:30:18. > :30:21.Is Labour's manifesto a realistic wish list or is it just

:30:22. > :30:24.I think it is a serious and realistic document that

:30:25. > :30:38.addresses the issues that many people in this country face.

:30:39. > :30:41.We have been brave enough to put it out there with all

:30:42. > :30:46.I think you're losing a lot of votes from SNP supporters by continuing

:30:47. > :30:48.with the independence referendum at this time.

:30:49. > :30:50.I am not proposing it now, I accept that point.

:30:51. > :30:57.My simple proposition, it should be our choice, when the time is right

:30:58. > :30:58.and we know what breaks it means for our country, to decide what the

:30:59. > :31:16.future of Scotland should be. So what are the Conservatives,

:31:17. > :31:19.Labour and the other main parties doing today to win all those

:31:20. > :31:21.last minute votes? First to Chris Mason

:31:22. > :31:35.who is with the Jeremy Corbyn Good morning Victoria. The marathon

:31:36. > :31:39.is on when all the party leaders dash around all corners of the

:31:40. > :31:45.country to try and convince us that they're hard enough and they're go

:31:46. > :31:50.to woo and cajole every person who may not have made up their mind.

:31:51. > :31:54.Jeremy Corbyn started in Glasgow. He will roll up here in Runcorn in over

:31:55. > :32:00.an hour's time. Some Labour activists are gathering. The focus

:32:01. > :32:04.of his speech here will be the NHS. The big challenge for Jeremy Corbyn

:32:05. > :32:08.is trying to turn the depth of the support that we have seen a lot of

:32:09. > :32:13.his rallies in recent days, quite a few people already and plenty more

:32:14. > :32:17.likely to arrive in the next hour or hour and 20 minutes into the breadth

:32:18. > :32:21.you need to become Prime Minister. You become Prime Minister not by

:32:22. > :32:27.having a few million people who adore you, you need on top of that

:32:28. > :32:30.plenty who are happy to vote for you and to put up with you as Prime

:32:31. > :32:34.Minister. The challenge for Jeremy Corbyn is trying to spread out that

:32:35. > :32:38.support. But they are buoyed up and they are positive Labour. They feel

:32:39. > :32:41.like they have had a good last couple of weeks. Jeremy Corbyn likes

:32:42. > :32:44.it and enjoys it out on the stump. He is off to North Wales after he

:32:45. > :32:49.has been here. Then he heads to Watford and then he ends up in

:32:50. > :32:52.Islington, his home patch in North London. So, plenty of miles to go!

:32:53. > :33:01.Cheers, Chris, thank you very much. Sima Kotecha is with

:33:02. > :33:11.Tim Farron and the Liberal Tim Farron has just pulled this

:33:12. > :33:17.pint. This constituency voted Tory in 2005. It was a Tory seat until

:33:18. > :33:21.2015. And now the Lib Dems are hoping that they can win it because

:33:22. > :33:26.overwhelmingly it voted to Remain in the EU referendum. So as I said, he

:33:27. > :33:30.has been pulling pints and talking to businesses about the detrimental

:33:31. > :33:36.effects he says Brexit will have on businesses here and around the

:33:37. > :33:39.country. Now, remember at the front and centre of the manifesto has been

:33:40. > :33:42.a pledge if they were to win on Friday that they would have another

:33:43. > :33:47.referendum, where they would offer the people a chance to have a say on

:33:48. > :33:51.that crucial deal between Brussels and the Government. That has been

:33:52. > :33:55.the core of their message. They have also announced other eye-catching

:33:56. > :33:58.policies along the way including legalising cannabis and allowing

:33:59. > :34:03.tens of thousands of Syrian refugees to come in the country if they are

:34:04. > :34:06.successful. However, as I said, they've dubbed themselves as the

:34:07. > :34:09.anti-Brexit party from day one on this campaign. However, there has

:34:10. > :34:13.been a mixed reaction on the doorstep. Some people saying they

:34:14. > :34:17.feel irritated and frustrated that they're banging on about something

:34:18. > :34:21.they say that happened a year ago. But there are those who say well,

:34:22. > :34:24.hang on a mind the Government need to be held to account and they say

:34:25. > :34:27.the Liberal Democrats are the party to do that. We'll find out if that

:34:28. > :34:36.message has been successful on Friday.

:34:37. > :34:40.And Ben Wright is with Theresa May's campaign.

:34:41. > :34:45.There are red and blue bowling balls being rolled along this green in

:34:46. > :34:53.Southampton. Theresa May is here in Hampshire. The first stop of her

:34:54. > :34:56.final day of campaigning. We're in the constituency of Southampton

:34:57. > :35:01.Test. It has a Labour majority of just under 4,000. It is interesting

:35:02. > :35:05.she is here. Clearly, it is a seat she feels the Tories might be able

:35:06. > :35:09.to take. It's the start of a day where Theresa May will be

:35:10. > :35:13.criss-crossing England. Hampshire to begin with and then East Anglia and

:35:14. > :35:17.we rumble through to the Midlands and a rally this evening where this

:35:18. > :35:21.campaign will finish and I imagine we'll hear familiar themes all day

:35:22. > :35:25.about Brexit beginning soon after this election wraps up and the need

:35:26. > :35:28.for somebody to is serious about delivering it to be in charge of the

:35:29. > :35:34.negotiations. She will be framing the whole of today about a choice

:35:35. > :35:38.between herself and Jeremy Corbyn. The questions of security are going

:35:39. > :35:41.to feature. The announcement last night that she made that she maybe

:35:42. > :35:46.prepared to re-open, pick apart and look at Human Rights law if it helps

:35:47. > :35:51.to tackle extremism has clearly caused political controversy.

:35:52. > :35:54.Labour, the Lib Dems have criticised her approach on that, so that could

:35:55. > :35:55.be the issue we talk about during this final day of general election

:35:56. > :36:06.campaigning. And finally our political

:36:07. > :36:08.guru Norman Smith is in Westminster and

:36:09. > :36:21.more on the news that Dianne Abbott has stepped back

:36:22. > :36:27.from the campaign due to ill health. It seems that Diane Abbott is not at

:36:28. > :36:31.all well. We have had a statement from the Labour Party saying she is

:36:32. > :36:36.going to be replaced for the foreseeable as Shadow Home Secretary

:36:37. > :36:40.by Lynn Brown. Some folks saying she will be out of action indefinitely.

:36:41. > :36:48.We don't know what's wrong with her. But obviously, it looks a little

:36:49. > :36:53.more serious than a dickie heart or a migraine. Emily Thornbury was in

:36:54. > :36:55.here a short time ago saying how strong Diane Abbott was and she

:36:56. > :36:59.suggested some people should be ashamed of themselves for suggesting

:37:00. > :37:02.that you know she had been pulled back because Labour people didn't

:37:03. > :37:06.have confidence in her. Now, we don't know what's wrong with her,

:37:07. > :37:11.but clearly, she is not at all well. OK. So the last day of campaigning

:37:12. > :37:18.and for a final time let's look at the moments through the campaign.

:37:19. > :37:24.We need a general election and we need one now. To every city, every

:37:25. > :37:28.village, every town. We state a clear intention. B-the future of

:37:29. > :37:33.this country. The big question here is simply this. At what point... Are

:37:34. > :37:40.voters... Getting tired of politicians. Let me finish if you

:37:41. > :37:44.don't mind. So Norman take us through some of

:37:45. > :37:47.your picks of the campaign. So, I guess one of the things in an

:37:48. > :37:53.election campaign is it's a moment to get to know the political

:37:54. > :37:58.leadersment you get a sense of their character and what they are about

:37:59. > :38:02.and what sort of person, but Theresa May, any time anyone tried to get a

:38:03. > :38:04.sense of her likes and dislikes, they have been biffed away. Theresa

:38:05. > :38:08.May will not give us anything about the sort of person she is. You

:38:09. > :38:15.remember, she did that sort of quick fire interview when she was asked,

:38:16. > :38:20.you know, do you prefer broad church or Line of Duty. She was asked do

:38:21. > :38:26.you like Indian or Chinese take-aways. She said she didn't do

:38:27. > :38:32.take aways and she was asked if she preferred whisky or wine? She didn't

:38:33. > :38:37.answer. A journalist on ITV had one last effort in the dying days of the

:38:38. > :38:41.campaign to try and crowbar out a little more sell of personal

:38:42. > :38:49.information about Theresa May! What's the naughtiest thing you ever

:38:50. > :38:53.did? Oh goodness me, well, I suppose, gosh, do you know, I'm not

:38:54. > :39:00.quite sure. There must have been a moment? Nobody is ever perfectly

:39:01. > :39:04.behaved, are they? I have to confess when me and my friends used to run

:39:05. > :39:08.through the fields of wheat, the farmers weren't too pleased about

:39:09. > :39:13.that. Evil. Evil. How has Theresa May managed to live with that all

:39:14. > :39:19.her life. If I was a farmer, I would be on the blower, I would say, "It

:39:20. > :39:22.was that Theresa from the vicarage, she was running through the fields

:39:23. > :39:25.of corn. What are you going to do about it?" What about Jeremy Corbyn?

:39:26. > :39:30.If you're going to launch a policy, the basic rule is get your facts

:39:31. > :39:36.sorted out and above all, know how much it's going to cost. Second, tip

:39:37. > :39:40.to politicians, if you're going a radio interview, don't think no one

:39:41. > :39:44.can see you. We have cameras in the studio. We can see you tapping away

:39:45. > :39:50.on your iPad trying to get the answers! Look at Jeremy Corbyn! How

:39:51. > :39:56.much will it cost to provide unmeans-tested childcare for 1.3

:39:57. > :40:03.million children? Maria Miller, it will cost Maria Miller, it will

:40:04. > :40:07.obviously cost a a lot to do so. I presume you have the figures. I will

:40:08. > :40:12.give you the figure in a moment. You don't know it. You're logging into

:40:13. > :40:16.your iPad here. You've announced a Mabelingor policy and you don't know

:40:17. > :40:21.how much it'll cost. What a nightmare! Last off, Nicola

:40:22. > :40:25.Sturgeon, the SNP have been quite good at arranging lots and lots of

:40:26. > :40:30.events to get Scotland's First Minister out and about. But, some of

:40:31. > :40:35.these photo opportunities have become sort of photo opportunities

:40:36. > :40:36.from hell and you can see Nicola Sturgeon just thinking, "What am I

:40:37. > :40:54.doing here?" Like aerobics. You can see her

:40:55. > :41:01.thinking, "Who on earth decided on this?" She hasn't got her high

:41:02. > :41:04.heels. Ice creams, be careful of ice creams. This one is melting quickly.

:41:05. > :41:11.It's going to dribble all over the place! And what on earth is that? I

:41:12. > :41:18.mean, I'm not a great cook, but honestly, that does not look that

:41:19. > :41:23.appetising. It's a meat pie, ain't it? Everyone knows it's a meat pie.

:41:24. > :41:29.I'm not feeling enthusiastic about that meat pie. It's not exactly

:41:30. > :41:33.making me hungry. Maybe Jon Ashworth should have been crowbared with the

:41:34. > :41:38.disco dancing in the van. That was very good. I liked that. He loved

:41:39. > :41:42.it. He loved it. I don't know what that says. What does it say if a

:41:43. > :41:46.politician really wants to sing and if a politician doesn't want to

:41:47. > :41:50.sing? Let's not answer that. Let's leave it hanging there. Thank you

:41:51. > :41:57.very much, Norman. Our election programme on the BBC tomorrow night

:41:58. > :42:01.with David Dimbleby and Emily Maitlis, with all the people you'd

:42:02. > :42:07.expect throughout the night on the BBC bringing you the results.

:42:08. > :42:11.We'll be asking why hundreds of thousands of teenage boys

:42:12. > :42:25.are being denied a potentially life saving vaccine which is routinely

:42:26. > :42:28.And as the battle for Raqqa - the headquarters of so-called

:42:29. > :42:31.Islamic State in Iraq - rages, we'll hear from

:42:32. > :42:33.an organisation helping those who've escaped the city.

:42:34. > :42:35.Almost 400,000 teenage boys a year are currently denied a vaccine that

:42:36. > :42:49.The Human Papilloma Virus, or HPV, jab is only offered to teenage girls

:42:50. > :42:53.in the UK to protect against cervial cancer.

:42:54. > :42:54.The virus which is transmitted through sexual

:42:55. > :42:57.contact leads to lots of different types of infection and in some

:42:58. > :43:02.In the UK, girls aged 12 to 13 have been vaccinated

:43:03. > :43:07.So why are boys not getting the same treatment?

:43:08. > :43:14.Steve Bergman was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2015 through

:43:15. > :43:17.Jill De Nardo was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2009.

:43:18. > :43:19.She has a daughter who received the vaccine

:43:20. > :43:26.Tristan Almada is the founder of the HPV and Anal Cancer Foundation.

:43:27. > :43:34.Welcome all of you. Thank you for coming on the programme. Explain

:43:35. > :43:38.what the Human Papilloma Virus is. It's a virus that everyone comes

:43:39. > :43:42.into contact with at some point in their life. We think that 80% of

:43:43. > :43:50.sexually active people will test positive at some point for HPV. It

:43:51. > :43:55.causes 5% of all cancers and some of the fast increasing cancers in the

:43:56. > :43:58.UK today for example throat cancer are caused by this virus. We don't

:43:59. > :44:05.know why some people who get diagnosed with HPV such as my

:44:06. > :44:09.mother, progressed to cancer and end up passing away. We don't know why

:44:10. > :44:15.others resolve the virus on their own. OK, but you said it was

:44:16. > :44:19.ubiquitous so we all have it. We have the propensity to have it? If

:44:20. > :44:25.you have had sex once, you have come into contact with HPV, you have it,

:44:26. > :44:30.I have it, Joe has it. It is unavoidable. You can pass it through

:44:31. > :44:34.passionate kissing or through any means of contact. OK. You mentioned

:44:35. > :44:45.your personal experience. Tell us a little more about that if that's OK?

:44:46. > :44:50.In 2010 my mother passed by away from stage four APV related cancer.

:44:51. > :44:54.She invested every ounce of loving energy into the upbringing of my

:44:55. > :44:57.sisters and myself and when she passed away, my sisters and I

:44:58. > :45:01.thought well, is there something that we can do to prevent the

:45:02. > :45:06.devastation that happened to our family from happening to anyone ever

:45:07. > :45:10.again? Watching someone deteriorate in your hands, the most important

:45:11. > :45:14.person in your life and it's not just the side-effects from the

:45:15. > :45:19.chemotherapy that cause your hands to feel numb so for the case of my

:45:20. > :45:22.mother, she had this dream to be a landscape architect and she used to

:45:23. > :45:28.work in public relations and she don't draft because her hands were

:45:29. > :45:32.so numb. But in addition to the emotional anxiety and the stigma

:45:33. > :45:36.associated with HPV because people don't understand what it is, so she

:45:37. > :45:41.couldn't relate her diagnosis to her friends and family because she was

:45:42. > :45:47.afraid of what they might say. HPV, how do you get that, anal cancer,

:45:48. > :45:53.how do you get that? The only thing that made her at risk was that she

:45:54. > :46:01.was a human being. Jill, you were diagnosed with anal cancer in 2009.

:46:02. > :46:07.Can you relate to what tris tran is saying about the stigma?

:46:08. > :46:16.Diagnosed at the same age. I did not really tell anybody that it was anal

:46:17. > :46:23.cancer at the time, I said it was bowel cancer but the more I

:46:24. > :46:27.realised, the more I thought about it, the less I would be aware. It

:46:28. > :46:31.was Tristan's family that made me aware of the HPV connection with the

:46:32. > :46:35.cancer. That is when I start to get very angry. The fact that it was not

:46:36. > :46:44.known to many people. My daughter was potentially protected against

:46:45. > :46:48.it, but my sons were not. And we are awaiting a decision as to whether

:46:49. > :46:52.teenage boys will be routinely vaccinated. What is the argument for

:46:53. > :46:57.only vaccinating teenage girls? I do not think there can be an argument.

:46:58. > :47:00.Look at this picture here. These are my three children. They all went

:47:01. > :47:04.through routine vaccinations, they went through the normal inoculations

:47:05. > :47:09.that children have. Why would any parents choose to discriminate

:47:10. > :47:12.against one child, in favour of the other two? My sons are too old for

:47:13. > :47:16.the vaccination to be properly protected, but if they had had the

:47:17. > :47:21.vaccination at the same age as my daughter, they would be protected.

:47:22. > :47:28.It is not good enough to say that they heard situation, where 85% of

:47:29. > :47:33.the girls are protected... If my son is having relationships with older

:47:34. > :47:38.people or girls from countries that have not been vaccinated, they are

:47:39. > :47:42.at just as much risk. Let me bring in Steve, who was diagnosed with

:47:43. > :47:48.cancer in 2015. How are you at the moment? I am great, thank you. You

:47:49. > :47:55.thought it was glandular fever. Yes. My wife and I, we looked at the

:47:56. > :47:58.consultations on the internet, and I had all the symptoms of glandular

:47:59. > :48:04.fever so we went along and somebody whacked me round the head and said,

:48:05. > :48:11.you have got cancer. And how did you react to the fact that it was throat

:48:12. > :48:15.cancer caused by HPV? It took a while for me to digest what it was

:48:16. > :48:20.about. I think it is important to say that I am a heterosexual man. I

:48:21. > :48:27.have family and a daughter, and this can happen to anyone. What happened

:48:28. > :48:35.to me, all of a sudden my whole world was completely consumed by

:48:36. > :48:41.trying to get healthy again. Within eight days I was whipped into

:48:42. > :48:46.hospital and I had a massive tumour removed from my throat and my right

:48:47. > :48:58.tonsil. I had a tracheotomy put in there. And I started seven months of

:48:59. > :49:03.recovery, settling into that, and then a couple of months of

:49:04. > :49:09.chemotherapy, and then quite radical radiotherapy because this part of

:49:10. > :49:14.the body, it's a really busy part of the body. And it had a massive

:49:15. > :49:21.impact on everything, saliva, food, everything. And then there is the

:49:22. > :49:27.after-shock, that once recovery has taken place, it is the emotional

:49:28. > :49:35.stuff, that has to be repaired. And that has taken a while. Do you mind

:49:36. > :49:39.me asking how old your doctor is? She is 23. So she is too late for

:49:40. > :49:46.this vaccine? No, she was the first year. Let me ask you the same

:49:47. > :49:49.question I asked Gill. Is there any argument for teenage boys, apart

:49:50. > :49:57.from cost, which is an issue with the NHS in England and Wales? It is

:49:58. > :50:05.not that much. Tell me why you believe teenage boys are not

:50:06. > :50:09.routinely vaccinated? There are 11 countries in the world that

:50:10. > :50:13.routinely vaccinate boys, including Austria, Brazil and Italy. Norway,

:50:14. > :50:18.Switzerland, the United States. We think it is a matter of time before

:50:19. > :50:22.everyone realises that this is, that this is the solution to solve a

:50:23. > :50:26.preventable cancer. The questionnaires, is the UK going to

:50:27. > :50:31.be the next country or a country that will make this decision a few

:50:32. > :50:36.years down the road. The argument to not vaccinate boys is that if you

:50:37. > :50:39.protect enough girls, and boys just have sex with the vaccinated girls,

:50:40. > :50:48.in theory you have protected those boys but if the boys travel or are

:50:49. > :50:53.older, or like older women or are gay, or meet women from other

:50:54. > :50:59.countries, they are not protected. It is just a very narrow way of

:51:00. > :51:03.viewing it. I think there is a lot of misinformation about HPV. We

:51:04. > :51:08.think about it as a cervical cancer jab. It is not that, it is a 5% of

:51:09. > :51:13.all cancers jab. Ten years ago there was a lot of data pointing to the

:51:14. > :51:16.fact that this was mostly about women, but since then we have

:51:17. > :51:21.realised that the burden also falls on them. Thank you very much, all of

:51:22. > :51:31.you, thank you for educating us. We await a decision. Let me bring you

:51:32. > :51:34.this sad breaking news. It is to do with a victim from the London Bridge

:51:35. > :51:42.terror attack. Detectives searching for the Frenchman, Xavier Thomas,

:51:43. > :51:45.who disappeared on Saturday night, have recovered a body from the

:51:46. > :51:53.Thames. Scotland Yard say that his next of kin have been informed.

:51:54. > :51:56.Xavier Thomas, who has not been seen since the terror attacks on Saturday

:51:57. > :52:00.night, his body has been recovered from the Thames near Limehouse.

:52:01. > :52:07.Scotland Yard say his next of kin have been informed.

:52:08. > :52:17.Next, we're going to talk about Raqqa in Syria, technically the

:52:18. > :52:23.headquarters of Islamic State. It is a city with a population of 200 or

:52:24. > :52:28.300,000, the size of a town like Rochdale. And now others are trying

:52:29. > :52:33.to take back control from IS, a selection of fighters known as the

:52:34. > :52:37.Syrian Democratic forces, backed by the United States. They launched an

:52:38. > :52:41.offensive this week to try to retake it. The US coalition said that the

:52:42. > :52:48.battle would be long and difficult and it is thought that between three

:52:49. > :52:52.and 4000 IS prisoners are holed up inside Raqqa. Islamic State have

:52:53. > :52:54.lost a lot of territory, as you can see from these maps, that they

:52:55. > :53:00.control at the start of last year. In March of this year, they lost the

:53:01. > :53:05.historic city of Chameera in Syria while the battle for Mosul, an

:53:06. > :53:14.important city in Iraq, is still ongoing. -- Palmyra. It would be a

:53:15. > :53:20.serious blow for Islamic states to lose Raqqa, where there organisation

:53:21. > :53:20.has been based for a number of years.

:53:21. > :53:23.We can chat about this more now with Charlie Winter who does

:53:24. > :53:26.lots of research on Islamic State for the International Centre

:53:27. > :53:28.for the Study of Radicalisation at Kings College London

:53:29. > :53:30.and Paul Donohoe from the International Rescue committee -

:53:31. > :53:32.an aid organisation who've been helping people who've

:53:33. > :53:38.Hello to you both. Thanks for talking to us. Charlie, how

:53:39. > :53:46.important is Raqqa to IS? Well, symbolically it is very important. I

:53:47. > :53:49.think if it is taken from Islamic State over the next few months, and

:53:50. > :53:54.it will take one time, it will be a big win the coalition. Over the last

:53:55. > :54:10.six months or so, Islamic State has been moving away from Raqqa to

:54:11. > :54:15.Easter Syria, so the thing is, the groups is Raqqa as its capital, but

:54:16. > :54:21.it is only a symbolic thing. Obviously it is going to be hugely

:54:22. > :54:25.important if it is taken. Poll, tell our audience about what life has

:54:26. > :54:33.been like inside Raqqa over the last few years? Well, unfortunately there

:54:34. > :54:39.have been 200,000 civilians trapped under ice is controlled Raqqa for

:54:40. > :54:44.three and a half years. We know from those who have escaped that every

:54:45. > :54:50.day has been terror, and in addition to the harsh rules that people know

:54:51. > :54:53.that those living under Isis have to adhere to, you can be executed for

:54:54. > :54:57.the slightest infraction. And in recent days we have heard that some

:54:58. > :55:01.people have been executed for being found to not be fasting or for

:55:02. > :55:05.trying to make contact with anyone outside the city. You can imagine it

:55:06. > :55:09.has been a very traumatic experience and a real ordeal, so one of the

:55:10. > :55:13.things we try to do as an aid agency, as well as providing

:55:14. > :55:15.life-saving AIDS, is to make sure that people get the proper

:55:16. > :55:19.specialist support they need to overcome what they have gone

:55:20. > :55:25.through. But things are going to get tougher as this battle rages? It's

:55:26. > :55:29.true. We are worried for the civilian still in the city that they

:55:30. > :55:32.are effectively being used as human shields. It is a tactic that ice of

:55:33. > :55:37.used and that means that they will be at real risk of being caught up

:55:38. > :55:41.in the fighting, as the assault makes it way through the city. Of

:55:42. > :55:46.course, also as locations and buildings are used by snipers, the

:55:47. > :55:49.civilians living in those buildings will unfortunately be killed. For

:55:50. > :55:58.those who have the opportunity to escape, they still face real risks,

:55:59. > :56:01.and we have met people who have seen family members killed as they

:56:02. > :56:06.crossed minefields. And some have been targeted by snipers. Charlie,

:56:07. > :56:15.is it accurate to say that Islamic State are struggling in Syria and

:56:16. > :56:18.Iraq or not? Absolutely. There is no two ways about it. They have lost a

:56:19. > :56:21.lot of senior figures in the leadership, they have lost thousands

:56:22. > :56:26.and thousands of square kilometres of territory. The most important

:56:27. > :56:30.resource is people. They need to be able to drop on people for recruits

:56:31. > :56:36.and supporters, and they have lost a lot of them along with the

:56:37. > :56:38.territory. They have lost access to the local population. The insurgency

:56:39. > :56:43.is struggling. And I am afraid to say that as its insurgency in Iraq

:56:44. > :56:49.and Syria is struggling, it has looked to attack elsewhere. And are

:56:50. > :56:53.we an increased threat because they are struggling in Syria? I think we

:56:54. > :56:57.are. We need to be careful about drawing to linear relationship, and

:56:58. > :57:05.certainly there is no two ways about it, terrorism as propaganda, it

:57:06. > :57:09.absolutely is propaganda. And as its momentum slows, as the ideology

:57:10. > :57:13.continues to flounder to ring the insurgency, it means that it needs

:57:14. > :57:16.to be able to derive that momentum from somewhere else and terrorism

:57:17. > :57:22.happens to be a very good way of doing it. There will be some people

:57:23. > :57:25.talking and listening to how you have described the lives of

:57:26. > :57:32.civilians in Raqqa you will want to do something. What can people do?

:57:33. > :57:36.Well, organisations like my own, the International Rescue Corps Mitzi, we

:57:37. > :57:39.have teams inside north-east Syria providing health care to people who

:57:40. > :57:43.have escaped and supporting people to rebuild their lives. One of the

:57:44. > :57:47.things that we're worried about is that over the years that the

:57:48. > :57:51.children have lived under Isis, many of them have not been in school and

:57:52. > :57:55.they have lost in education. We do not want a lost generation so

:57:56. > :57:59.long-term, any of the children that have escaped Isis areas in Syria and

:58:00. > :58:06.Iraq, that has to be part of the solution. Thank you very much, both

:58:07. > :58:08.of you. Charlie went from the international centre for the study

:58:09. > :58:11.of radicalisation and Paul Donohoe from the International Rescue Corps

:58:12. > :58:15.Mitty, thank you very much. Thank you for your messages today, whether

:58:16. > :58:19.you are undecided or whether you have made a decision about who you

:58:20. > :58:22.will vote for tomorrow. Robert says, it is my decision to vote

:58:23. > :58:28.Conservative because I cannot trust Jeremy Corbyn with the safety of the

:58:29. > :58:29.country. John says it is now time to support our National Health Service.

:58:30. > :58:33.Becky Bumic favelas. I want to know...

:58:34. > :58:38...what will happen next. And I want to know...

:58:39. > :58:41...what it all means...