:00:19. > :00:20.Hello and welcome to The Election Wrap, our guide
:00:21. > :00:24.And the countdown is on, with just 12 hours until the polling
:00:25. > :00:27.booths open for the 2017 General Election.
:00:28. > :00:30.Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn criss-cross the country in a frantic
:00:31. > :00:35.last push for votes in the Battle for Number 10.
:00:36. > :00:38.We'll tell you what the other parties have been doing
:00:39. > :00:47.on the campaign trail on the eve of the election.
:00:48. > :00:55.They separate us into two groups, I want you to unify the country.
:00:56. > :00:58.They may be too young to vote, but children from the BBC
:00:59. > :01:00.School Report ask what the next Prime Minister can do
:01:01. > :01:03.Theresa May called this snap election 50 days ago.
:01:04. > :01:06.We'll tell you how things developed in our campaign highlights
:01:07. > :01:13.We'll hear a plea from Simon Brown, a British soldier who was injured
:01:14. > :01:15.in Iraq and saved the lives of six of his colleagues,
:01:16. > :01:22.about the importance of voting tomorrow.
:01:23. > :01:28.It's so important that you use your voice and your opinion. You might
:01:29. > :01:33.not think it matters, but it truly does. And at the very least, honour
:01:34. > :01:39.the sacrifices made to ensure that you will always have a vote.
:01:40. > :01:42.And our election gurus in the studio this evening,
:01:43. > :01:44.for this last Election Wrap of the campaign, are Caroline
:01:45. > :01:46.Crampton, the Assistant Editor at the New Statesman,
:01:47. > :01:58.and Tim Shipman, who's Political Editor at the Sunday Times.
:01:59. > :02:01.Let's bring you up to date with the latest developments from
:02:02. > :02:05.The leaders treated the British public to a re-run of their best
:02:06. > :02:07.hits today, trotting out plenty of old favourites
:02:08. > :02:14.After seven weeks of campaigning, Theresa May told voters
:02:15. > :02:17.she still needs help with her Brexit hand to become
:02:18. > :02:30.Every vote for me is a vote to strengthen my Brexit hand.
:02:31. > :02:39.And a vote for a fairer and more prosperous Britain for us all.
:02:40. > :02:41.Jeremy Corbyn set his sights closer to his London home,
:02:42. > :02:44.visiting Watford, Harrow and Islington to emphasise that his
:02:45. > :03:01.I'm proud of this document, for the many, not the few. I'm very proud of
:03:02. > :03:05.the input into it. And it is a manifesto that can transform our
:03:06. > :03:09.politics and change our attitudes in this society.
:03:10. > :03:12.It was 'back to the future' for Tim Farron in his speech
:03:13. > :03:17.to supporters in Bath ahead of a rally in Oxford.
:03:18. > :03:25.I've my back to you, because we are facing forward and facing a massive
:03:26. > :03:28.day. Not just in Bath, but across the west country and an opportunity
:03:29. > :03:32.to change the direction of the country.
:03:33. > :03:33.And Nicola Sturgeon criticised Theresa May's 'strong
:03:34. > :03:36.and stable' message, but fell back on her own catchphrase
:03:37. > :03:41.when she insisted her candidates could be strong for Scotland.
:03:42. > :03:52.Do not wake up on Friday morning and find that Scottish votes have
:03:53. > :03:56.boosted Theresa May's majority and thrown her a lifeline. Let us wake
:03:57. > :03:58.up on Friday morning having re-elected strong SNP voices who
:03:59. > :04:01.will stand up for Scotland. Well, those were the party leaders
:04:02. > :04:04.with their latest messages, but let's have a look at the last
:04:05. > :04:06.dash that started Ridiculously early o'clock
:04:07. > :04:13.and the Prime Minister was taking the phrase meat and greet quite
:04:14. > :04:15.literally by visiting Smithfield
:04:16. > :04:18.Market in London. Obviously not courting
:04:19. > :04:23.the vegan vote. But listen carefully
:04:24. > :04:25.and you can hear a Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron,
:04:26. > :04:36.was in Solihull to continue He whipped up sausages
:04:37. > :04:44.and sauerkraut as warning against In Glasgow, the Labour leader
:04:45. > :04:55.held the first of six Behind the scenes shadow
:04:56. > :05:01.police minister Lynne Brown took over from
:05:02. > :05:04.the shadow Home Secretary, Actually, Jeremy's been
:05:05. > :05:08.sounding a bit croaky. Mid morning and Theresa May
:05:09. > :05:18.was at a bowling club in Fresh from the revelation
:05:19. > :05:21.that she ran through wheat fields as a child, we learned
:05:22. > :05:24.another personal gem about the Prime By this point he was
:05:25. > :05:38.in a pub in St Alban's Paul Nuttall took
:05:39. > :05:43.you Ukip's message to They do love a market
:05:44. > :05:59.these politicians. Paul Nuttall was one party leader
:06:00. > :06:03.trying to get a message out. We are not a single issue party, we stand
:06:04. > :06:09.for putting more into the NHS, slashing the foreign aid budget,
:06:10. > :06:15.investing in our defence and our boys and girls in the armed forces
:06:16. > :06:19.and of course reducing immigration which would be good for community
:06:20. > :06:24.cohesion and the economy. We are feel we are at a fork in the road F
:06:25. > :06:32.you don't want to waste money on Trident and look at ideas to make
:06:33. > :06:37.the country fit for the 21st century and want more investment in the NHS,
:06:38. > :06:42.then vote for the Green Party. We face a number of threats from a Tory
:06:43. > :06:48.Government with an increased mandate. Threats to people in our
:06:49. > :06:52.communities, threats to our NHS and threats to the process of leaving
:06:53. > :07:05.the EU to jobs and livelihoods. It is only by having a strong team of
:07:06. > :07:08.Plaid Cymru MPs that we can make su wail's voice is taken seriously.
:07:09. > :07:12.Well, to have a look at the last day of campaigning in more detail I'm
:07:13. > :07:13.joined by Caroline Crampton, the Assistant Editor
:07:14. > :07:16.of the New Statesman and Tim Shipman, Political Editor
:07:17. > :07:27.Does this last day matter, the final push to get the message over? It is
:07:28. > :07:32.important for narrative purposes bgs you want to give your story the
:07:33. > :07:37.crescendo before voting day. I'm not sure it matters so much to voters.
:07:38. > :07:41.People have already decide or they will decide in the ballot box in the
:07:42. > :07:44.last 24 hours. I don't think anything will change their minds. It
:07:45. > :07:48.has been such a strange election. From the moment Theresa May called
:07:49. > :07:55.it, with almost nobody expecting that, a surprise? Yes the whole
:07:56. > :07:58.thing has been bizarre. A month ago, this was probably the most boring
:07:59. > :08:04.general election I have covered. And now I'm thinking it is one of the
:08:05. > :08:09.most interesting and we have seen two parties taking control of the
:08:10. > :08:14.landscape and the small parties have faded and you're the two visions
:08:15. > :08:19.taking each other on and it is a proper clash of ideologies and of
:08:20. > :08:24.personalities. How do you see the personalities having fared? I think
:08:25. > :08:28.it has been very revealing for both. Both leaders who haven't led into an
:08:29. > :08:34.election before and although we do have a Parliamentary system there is
:08:35. > :08:37.a discussion about increasingly presidential we are becoming, your
:08:38. > :08:41.voting for local candidates, but you feel like you're voting for the
:08:42. > :08:45.national outcome and we have had greater scrutiny on Theresa May and
:08:46. > :08:50.Jeremy Corbyn and I think Jeremy Corbyn's come out the better. He
:08:51. > :08:53.loves the local detail of campaigning and meeting people. I
:08:54. > :09:00.think Theresa May that is not her for Tay and it comes across. Is that
:09:01. > :09:03.how you see it? Yes, Theresa May became Prime Minister without even
:09:04. > :09:06.going through a proper Tory leadership contest and elections
:09:07. > :09:09.reveal the individuals. The Americans complain they have this
:09:10. > :09:13.agonising two year process to pick a president. But by the end of it, you
:09:14. > :09:17.know everything there is to know about that person. This has been a
:09:18. > :09:23.revealing process for Theresa May. She didn't even make a virtue of it
:09:24. > :09:27.by saying this guy is a great campaigner let him be a protester,
:09:28. > :09:31.I'm the serious Prime Minister. Even that she has not been able to frame
:09:32. > :09:40.and shown she is not comfortable in the spotlight and can't wait to get
:09:41. > :09:43.back into No 10 as she hopes. Is that how she sold herselfers
:09:44. > :09:48.somebody who gets on with the job. That is how she was selling ourself
:09:49. > :09:53.to start with and how she is today. It has been cliche day on the
:09:54. > :09:57.campaign trail. They want people going into the ballot box thinking
:09:58. > :10:01.through Theresa May's virtues. But they have seen a woman who has
:10:02. > :10:08.changed her mind about a couple of things and has looked uncomfortable
:10:09. > :10:13.with some questioning. She called it presumably hoping for a landslide.
:10:14. > :10:22.If she doesn't get one, how disappointed will she be and how
:10:23. > :10:30.disappointed with the Conservative Party be? When the expectations are
:10:31. > :10:35.set high, there is only one way. You feel like you have lost. Before we
:10:36. > :10:41.know the result people are arguing over what victory looks like and the
:10:42. > :10:47.day after traichl call -- Theresa May called the election, we were
:10:48. > :10:54.talking of a 100 strong majority. We are not in that ball game. The polls
:10:55. > :10:56.and what we are hearing... To be fair was that just journalists
:10:57. > :11:00.talking? I think the Conservative Party themselves had expectations in
:11:01. > :11:04.that realm as well. I think the Tory MPs did. I think the one good thing
:11:05. > :11:07.for Theresa May is they have had that knocked out of them now. When
:11:08. > :11:11.they started the campaign, if you believed people who work for Theresa
:11:12. > :11:15.May, she went in hope, thinking it was worth calling the general
:11:16. > :11:20.election to get a majority of 50 or 60. Now most Tory MPs would be
:11:21. > :11:23.satisfied with that. I'm struggling to find many that think they will
:11:24. > :11:29.have a majority of much less than that. They're relatively confident,
:11:30. > :11:34.but what has changed appears to be the chance for Theresa May and the
:11:35. > :11:40.Tories to ruck up the score in a way we haven't seen since Tony Blair's
:11:41. > :11:45.victories 20-odd years ago. But a majority of 50 would be the best
:11:46. > :11:49.Tory performance for a generation since 1987. So they will take that.
:11:50. > :11:52.Not long to wait until we find out. Thank you.
:11:53. > :11:55.The election has been dominated in recent days by security issues
:11:56. > :11:58.in the aftermath of the terror attacks in London and Manchester.
:11:59. > :12:02.Today's final day of campaigning has seen party leaders return
:12:03. > :12:10.to their core messages - for the Conservatives -
:12:11. > :12:13.Brexit and the economy andfor Labour - the NHS and schools.
:12:14. > :12:15.Christian Fraser has been looking at each of the main parties
:12:16. > :12:18.manifesto commitments in three key areas - the economy,
:12:19. > :12:23.Have you made up your mind or do you need a bit of help?
:12:24. > :12:26.Let's have a fast and furious guide to some of the policies
:12:27. > :12:34.The Conservatives say they'll balance the budget by 2025.
:12:35. > :12:42.They are ruling out any increases to VAT but they will stick
:12:43. > :12:45.with current plans to raise personal tax allowances, those they have set
:12:46. > :12:49.Labour say they'll inject ?250 billion into the economy
:12:50. > :12:54.There'll be no increase in personal National Insurance but there will be
:12:55. > :12:57.a top rate of 50p and higher income taxes for those who
:12:58. > :13:01.If there is a hung Parliament, the SNP will play a bigger role,
:13:02. > :13:04.of course, they would support any plans to balance the UK budget over
:13:05. > :13:10.Again their pledge is to protect the low-paid but there would be
:13:11. > :13:15.And the Liberal Democrats, again, pledges to balance the budget.
:13:16. > :13:19.This is really the marquee policy for the Liberal Democrats.
:13:20. > :13:22.Everybody would spend an extra penny in the pound in income tax
:13:23. > :13:24.for a world class NHS service and they would inject
:13:25. > :13:26.an extra ?100 billion into infrastructure,
:13:27. > :13:32.house building, broadband, schools, etc.
:13:33. > :13:34.Let's look at a devolved issue, health care.
:13:35. > :13:42.They would give the NHS an extra ?9 billion every year for the next
:13:43. > :13:47.This one was there in 2015, cracking down on foreign nationals
:13:48. > :13:54.Labour would commit more than ?30 billion in extra funding
:13:55. > :14:00.This is really a key one, they would guarantee access to NHS
:14:01. > :14:05.And the Tories say they would increase spending by ?8 billion over
:14:06. > :14:14.And the Liberal Democrats, we have seen that one,
:14:15. > :14:16.but this one is maybe important, ensuring mental health care
:14:17. > :14:20.is similar to the standards in physical health care.
:14:21. > :14:22.Quite a big one that on the doorstep.
:14:23. > :14:25.Let's look at housing, another devolved issue.
:14:26. > :14:27.Rent controls, a big issue for younger voters.
:14:28. > :14:31.The Green Party making commitments on that.
:14:32. > :14:36.The Conservatives say they would build fixed-term council
:14:37. > :14:39.houses that could be sold after 15 years under the right-to-buy scheme.
:14:40. > :14:43.Labour say they will, again, control rent rises
:14:44. > :14:48.and they are promising to build at least 100,000 council houses
:14:49. > :14:52.a year and the Liberal Democrats, 300,000 new homes every year.
:14:53. > :14:54.Can't get through all of them, but please do
:14:55. > :14:58.All the manifestos are there, from all the parties -
:14:59. > :15:06.They may not be old enough to vote tomorrow -
:15:07. > :15:09.but many teenagers across the UK will be directly affected
:15:10. > :15:15.BBC School Report have asked some of them what the next Prime Minister
:15:16. > :15:31.Dear Prime Minister, make Wi-Fi free. Myself and other young people
:15:32. > :15:39.want to go to university, reduce tuition fees. I want a free day week
:15:40. > :15:47.so, I don't have to dread Monday. I would like to make fees cheaper for
:15:48. > :15:52.people like me. Make rights between men and women equal. I want you to
:15:53. > :16:18.lower the voting aiming so we have a fair chance of deciding the future.
:16:19. > :16:23.Now young voters they can't vote, but many can and Jeremy Corbyn has
:16:24. > :16:29.been targeting them with tuition fees. It is a major planks of Jeremy
:16:30. > :16:36.Corbyn's idea of how he would win an election. First non-voters, people
:16:37. > :16:40.who stay at home and young voters, which historically don't turn up. Or
:16:41. > :16:45.doesn't even register. The older you get, the more likely you are to vote
:16:46. > :16:54.and it has been the older you are the more likely you are to vote
:16:55. > :16:59.Conservative. So hence the strategy. I remain sceptical, but if he turns
:17:00. > :17:02.out many young people he will have changed the landscape of British
:17:03. > :17:07.politics. Is that enough to win him an election? If it happened on the
:17:08. > :17:12.scale some people in the Labour Party hope, it might be enough to
:17:13. > :17:17.remove the Conservative majority and if you look at opinion polls, some
:17:18. > :17:23.of the companies are predicting high turn out among young people, up to
:17:24. > :17:28.08%. Traditionally they vote in the low 40s and in a good election up to
:17:29. > :17:34.the low 50s. That would seem to be ambitious. But he splurged ?11
:17:35. > :17:37.billion on the tuition pledge and some think it was an attempt to
:17:38. > :17:44.target those people in the university towns and cities at the
:17:45. > :17:47.expense of the working class, the traditional Labour voters, they
:17:48. > :17:51.wanted commitments on benefits. We did some work at the weekend and a
:17:52. > :17:56.lot of young people who are registering appear to be doing so in
:17:57. > :18:00.seats that Labour already holds. The problem for Jeremy Corbyn is he may
:18:01. > :18:06.get more votes than Ed Miliband, but may not get more seats. Looking
:18:07. > :18:14.ahead, if Corbyn does reasonably well, loses, but does well, is he
:18:15. > :18:19.then safe? It seems so. There doesn't seem, what I pick up is that
:18:20. > :18:23.there isn't much appetite for a second coup as the phrase was last
:18:24. > :18:30.year. But it comes back to what victory look like. If we have either
:18:31. > :18:35.an equal or a better vote share than what Ed Miliband achieved, but fewer
:18:36. > :18:39.seats, that is possible, if as it looks like, Jeremy Corbyn is piling
:18:40. > :18:43.up votes in places where Labour already hold seats or seats that
:18:44. > :18:48.would have gone to them any way, he is not making inroads in difficult
:18:49. > :18:53.areas, then it is a kind of semantic argument. He can argue, I'm a
:18:54. > :18:56.popular leader and I turned out so many people and those in the Labour
:18:57. > :19:00.Party who are critical of him and they can say we have fewer seats and
:19:01. > :19:06.the Conservatives have more. That is the opposite of what you want to
:19:07. > :19:10.achieve. It is going to be a summer of Labour wrangling, but I think
:19:11. > :19:16.Jeremy Corbyn will stay where he is. I agree, his position looks like it
:19:17. > :19:19.will be enhanced. He has a huge amount of support from the
:19:20. > :19:26.membership and may have more votes than Ed Miliband from the party at
:19:27. > :19:32.large. From the country at large. Tony Benn hailed eight million votes
:19:33. > :19:35.for socialism. There might be ten or 11 this time and they can point to
:19:36. > :19:42.the opinion polls and say a lot of this stuff is popular. For the
:19:43. > :19:44.moment, we will thank you. We are going to look back.
:19:45. > :19:47.It's been 50 days since Theresa May called a snap General Election.
:19:48. > :19:50.Here is a round-up of the 2017 General Election campaign
:19:51. > :20:01.The government should call a general election to be
:20:02. > :20:11.You can only have strong public services when you have the strong
:20:12. > :20:14.and stable leadership that delivers a strong economy.
:20:15. > :20:37.Strong leadership is about standing up for the many, not the few.
:20:38. > :20:41.I will give you the figure in a moment.
:20:42. > :21:12.Debates where the politicians are squabbling among themselves
:21:13. > :21:18.Where do you think Theresa May is tonight?
:21:19. > :21:21.I think the first rule of leadership is to show up.
:21:22. > :21:29.I believe leaders should walk the walk.
:21:30. > :21:33.Absolutely shocked and horrified at what happened.
:21:34. > :21:42.We need to ensure that our police and our security and intelligence
:21:43. > :21:58.The police and security services must get the resources they need.
:21:59. > :22:01.With me is Caroline Crampton of the New Statesman and Tim Shipman
:22:02. > :22:13.Let's give Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn marks out of ten for their
:22:14. > :22:17.campaigns. Why don't me? Tim. I will give Jeremy Corbyn 7. He has
:22:18. > :22:22.outperformed expectations that were very low. He had a couple of
:22:23. > :22:30.wobbles. The interview with the Woman's Hour was one a low and had
:22:31. > :22:34.die yacht Abbot not -- Diane Abbot not performed worse it may have been
:22:35. > :22:43.the worst of campaign. But he has given a good account of himself and
:22:44. > :22:50.wh he believes. Theresa May I would give 4. She has held her own, got
:22:51. > :22:53.back to the messages she wanted, but ultimately whether she wins or not,
:22:54. > :22:57.a lot of people in the Conservative Party think she is a diminished
:22:58. > :23:02.figure. Is that how you see it? Yes, I would go further and give Jeremy
:23:03. > :23:09.Corbyn 9 out of 10, given he went into the campaign on 1 or minus
:23:10. > :23:13.something. He has made tremendous... What about Tim Farron? He has had a
:23:14. > :23:19.terrible campaign. I would put him on 2. Really dreadful. In what
:23:20. > :23:24.sense? I think you know he was hampered at the start with all the
:23:25. > :23:29.stuff about his personal opinions on social issue, gay marriage and this
:23:30. > :23:35.stuff and he didn't shut that down quickly and allowed it to drag on
:23:36. > :23:39.and taint the Liberal Democrats' message and it became about his
:23:40. > :23:46.personality. After that, nothing else seemed to compete. They haven't
:23:47. > :23:51.cut through as Tim said, we are operating a two-party system it
:23:52. > :23:55.feels like. Tim Farron, is his leadership of the Liberal Democrats
:23:56. > :24:01.under threat? Depending on the results, but if it doesn't go
:24:02. > :24:05.brilliantly? I think so we will have three succession battles in all
:24:06. > :24:10.three of the main parties. Perhaps all four if you include Ukip, if
:24:11. > :24:17.there still a Ukip. I could give Farron 2 or 3. His campaign has been
:24:18. > :24:23.more disastrous than Theresa May's, because it is rendering his party
:24:24. > :24:27.irrelevant. He made a misjudgment in assuming the vast number of remain
:24:28. > :24:30.voters would rush to the Liberal Democrats, because they wanted to
:24:31. > :24:35.re-open the question around Brexit. It looks like most of Remain voters
:24:36. > :24:39.would like to move on. Even if they don't, there is nothing compelling
:24:40. > :24:46.about the Liberal Democrats with Tim Farron. We may end up with Vince
:24:47. > :24:50.Cable again. It was supposed to be the Brexit election, but it has not
:24:51. > :24:55.been exclusively? No, Theresa May's made her best attempts to make it
:24:56. > :25:00.so. Because she feels that is her point of authority and strength. But
:25:01. > :25:05.I think astonishing as it may feel not even a year on, we have moved
:25:06. > :25:10.on, most people accepted our exit from the EU as a reality and now its
:25:11. > :25:18.just a question of who does it best and how do we negotiate and on what
:25:19. > :25:27.terms do we leave. And in a word, your prediction? Tory majority of
:25:28. > :25:33.about 60. I've put in a prediction of 66. You must have been talking to
:25:34. > :25:38.each other. 60 and 66. It would surprise me if it was lower. It
:25:39. > :25:42.wasn't surprise me if it was nearer 100. You're keeping your options
:25:43. > :25:47.open. Thank you. Well, that's it from
:25:48. > :25:49.The Election Wrap. But before we go, we wanted
:25:50. > :25:51.to leave you with the Simon was shot while
:25:52. > :25:56.serving in Iraq in 2006. He saved the lives of
:25:57. > :25:59.six of his colleagues and has these thoughts for you ahead
:26:00. > :26:07.of polling day tomorrow. Hi there, my name is
:26:08. > :26:10.Simon Brown and I am a former soldier in the British
:26:11. > :26:20.Army. I was fortunate to survive
:26:21. > :26:25.the incident on the battlefield. I woke up in Birmingham
:26:26. > :26:28.after 18 days in a coma. To the knowledge that I'd
:26:29. > :26:31.lost my left eye and my right I had very little hope
:26:32. > :26:34.of retaining any sight. Although I survived my injuries,
:26:35. > :26:37.I have colleagues that didn't. And it changed my
:26:38. > :26:40.perspective on life. I suddenly realised
:26:41. > :26:42.I was a survivor, And it made me think
:26:43. > :26:49.about the things I have kept and not I think that some values
:26:50. > :26:53.that I carry forward I've served in places around
:26:54. > :26:58.the world where the people I really feel that
:26:59. > :27:07.the biggest freedom that we have is to have
:27:08. > :27:10.a voice and an opinion. It is so important that
:27:11. > :27:16.you use your voice and your opinion. You might not think it
:27:17. > :27:20.matters, but it truly does. And at the very least honour
:27:21. > :27:46.the sacrifices made to ensure I'm sure most of us would agree the
:27:47. > :27:48.weather's been much better today compared