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Hello and welcome to The Election Wrap, our guide

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And the countdown is on, with just 12 hours until the polling

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booths open for the 2017 General Election.

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Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn criss-cross the country in a frantic

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last push for votes in the Battle for Number 10.

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We'll tell you what the other parties have been doing

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on the campaign trail on the eve of the election.

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They separate us into two groups, I want you to unify the country.

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They may be too young to vote, but children from the BBC

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School Report ask what the next Prime Minister can do

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Theresa May called this snap election 50 days ago.

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We'll tell you how things developed in our campaign highlights

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We'll hear a plea from Simon Brown, a British soldier who was injured

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in Iraq and saved the lives of six of his colleagues,

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about the importance of voting tomorrow.

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It's so important that you use your voice and your opinion. You might

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not think it matters, but it truly does. And at the very least, honour

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the sacrifices made to ensure that you will always have a vote.

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And our election gurus in the studio this evening,

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for this last Election Wrap of the campaign, are Caroline

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Crampton, the Assistant Editor at the New Statesman,

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and Tim Shipman, who's Political Editor at the Sunday Times.

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Let's bring you up to date with the latest developments from

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The leaders treated the British public to a re-run of their best

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hits today, trotting out plenty of old favourites

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After seven weeks of campaigning, Theresa May told voters

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she still needs help with her Brexit hand to become

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Every vote for me is a vote to strengthen my Brexit hand.

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And a vote for a fairer and more prosperous Britain for us all.

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Jeremy Corbyn set his sights closer to his London home,

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visiting Watford, Harrow and Islington to emphasise that his

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I'm proud of this document, for the many, not the few. I'm very proud of

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the input into it. And it is a manifesto that can transform our

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politics and change our attitudes in this society.

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It was 'back to the future' for Tim Farron in his speech

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to supporters in Bath ahead of a rally in Oxford.

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I've my back to you, because we are facing forward and facing a massive

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day. Not just in Bath, but across the west country and an opportunity

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to change the direction of the country.

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And Nicola Sturgeon criticised Theresa May's 'strong

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and stable' message, but fell back on her own catchphrase

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when she insisted her candidates could be strong for Scotland.

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Do not wake up on Friday morning and find that Scottish votes have

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boosted Theresa May's majority and thrown her a lifeline. Let us wake

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up on Friday morning having re-elected strong SNP voices who

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will stand up for Scotland. Well, those were the party leaders

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with their latest messages, but let's have a look at the last

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dash that started Ridiculously early o'clock

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and the Prime Minister was taking the phrase meat and greet quite

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literally by visiting Smithfield

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Market in London. Obviously not courting

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the vegan vote. But listen carefully

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and you can hear a Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron,

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was in Solihull to continue He whipped up sausages

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and sauerkraut as warning against In Glasgow, the Labour leader

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held the first of six Behind the scenes shadow

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police minister Lynne Brown took over from

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the shadow Home Secretary, Actually, Jeremy's been

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sounding a bit croaky. Mid morning and Theresa May

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was at a bowling club in Fresh from the revelation

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that she ran through wheat fields as a child, we learned

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another personal gem about the Prime By this point he was

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in a pub in St Alban's Paul Nuttall took

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you Ukip's message to They do love a market

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these politicians. Paul Nuttall was one party leader

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trying to get a message out. We are not a single issue party, we stand

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for putting more into the NHS, slashing the foreign aid budget,

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investing in our defence and our boys and girls in the armed forces

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and of course reducing immigration which would be good for community

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cohesion and the economy. We are feel we are at a fork in the road F

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you don't want to waste money on Trident and look at ideas to make

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the country fit for the 21st century and want more investment in the NHS,

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then vote for the Green Party. We face a number of threats from a Tory

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Government with an increased mandate. Threats to people in our

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communities, threats to our NHS and threats to the process of leaving

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the EU to jobs and livelihoods. It is only by having a strong team of

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Plaid Cymru MPs that we can make su wail's voice is taken seriously.

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Well, to have a look at the last day of campaigning in more detail I'm

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joined by Caroline Crampton, the Assistant Editor

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of the New Statesman and Tim Shipman, Political Editor

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Does this last day matter, the final push to get the message over? It is

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important for narrative purposes bgs you want to give your story the

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crescendo before voting day. I'm not sure it matters so much to voters.

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People have already decide or they will decide in the ballot box in the

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last 24 hours. I don't think anything will change their minds. It

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has been such a strange election. From the moment Theresa May called

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it, with almost nobody expecting that, a surprise? Yes the whole

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thing has been bizarre. A month ago, this was probably the most boring

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general election I have covered. And now I'm thinking it is one of the

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most interesting and we have seen two parties taking control of the

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landscape and the small parties have faded and you're the two visions

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taking each other on and it is a proper clash of ideologies and of

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personalities. How do you see the personalities having fared? I think

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it has been very revealing for both. Both leaders who haven't led into an

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election before and although we do have a Parliamentary system there is

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a discussion about increasingly presidential we are becoming, your

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voting for local candidates, but you feel like you're voting for the

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national outcome and we have had greater scrutiny on Theresa May and

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Jeremy Corbyn and I think Jeremy Corbyn's come out the better. He

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loves the local detail of campaigning and meeting people. I

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think Theresa May that is not her for Tay and it comes across. Is that

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how you see it? Yes, Theresa May became Prime Minister without even

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going through a proper Tory leadership contest and elections

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reveal the individuals. The Americans complain they have this

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agonising two year process to pick a president. But by the end of it, you

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know everything there is to know about that person. This has been a

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revealing process for Theresa May. She didn't even make a virtue of it

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by saying this guy is a great campaigner let him be a protester,

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I'm the serious Prime Minister. Even that she has not been able to frame

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and shown she is not comfortable in the spotlight and can't wait to get

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back into No 10 as she hopes. Is that how she sold herselfers

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somebody who gets on with the job. That is how she was selling ourself

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to start with and how she is today. It has been cliche day on the

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campaign trail. They want people going into the ballot box thinking

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through Theresa May's virtues. But they have seen a woman who has

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changed her mind about a couple of things and has looked uncomfortable

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with some questioning. She called it presumably hoping for a landslide.

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If she doesn't get one, how disappointed will she be and how

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disappointed with the Conservative Party be? When the expectations are

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set high, there is only one way. You feel like you have lost. Before we

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know the result people are arguing over what victory looks like and the

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day after traichl call -- Theresa May called the election, we were

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talking of a 100 strong majority. We are not in that ball game. The polls

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and what we are hearing... To be fair was that just journalists

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talking? I think the Conservative Party themselves had expectations in

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that realm as well. I think the Tory MPs did. I think the one good thing

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for Theresa May is they have had that knocked out of them now. When

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they started the campaign, if you believed people who work for Theresa

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May, she went in hope, thinking it was worth calling the general

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election to get a majority of 50 or 60. Now most Tory MPs would be

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satisfied with that. I'm struggling to find many that think they will

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have a majority of much less than that. They're relatively confident,

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but what has changed appears to be the chance for Theresa May and the

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Tories to ruck up the score in a way we haven't seen since Tony Blair's

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victories 20-odd years ago. But a majority of 50 would be the best

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Tory performance for a generation since 1987. So they will take that.

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Not long to wait until we find out. Thank you.

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The election has been dominated in recent days by security issues

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in the aftermath of the terror attacks in London and Manchester.

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Today's final day of campaigning has seen party leaders return

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to their core messages - for the Conservatives -

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Brexit and the economy andfor Labour - the NHS and schools.

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Christian Fraser has been looking at each of the main parties

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manifesto commitments in three key areas - the economy,

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Have you made up your mind or do you need a bit of help?

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Let's have a fast and furious guide to some of the policies

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The Conservatives say they'll balance the budget by 2025.

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They are ruling out any increases to VAT but they will stick

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with current plans to raise personal tax allowances, those they have set

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Labour say they'll inject ?250 billion into the economy

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There'll be no increase in personal National Insurance but there will be

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a top rate of 50p and higher income taxes for those who

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If there is a hung Parliament, the SNP will play a bigger role,

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of course, they would support any plans to balance the UK budget over

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Again their pledge is to protect the low-paid but there would be

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And the Liberal Democrats, again, pledges to balance the budget.

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This is really the marquee policy for the Liberal Democrats.

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Everybody would spend an extra penny in the pound in income tax

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for a world class NHS service and they would inject

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an extra ?100 billion into infrastructure,

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house building, broadband, schools, etc.

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Let's look at a devolved issue, health care.

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They would give the NHS an extra ?9 billion every year for the next

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This one was there in 2015, cracking down on foreign nationals

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Labour would commit more than ?30 billion in extra funding

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This is really a key one, they would guarantee access to NHS

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And the Tories say they would increase spending by ?8 billion over

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And the Liberal Democrats, we have seen that one,

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but this one is maybe important, ensuring mental health care

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is similar to the standards in physical health care.

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Quite a big one that on the doorstep.

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Let's look at housing, another devolved issue.

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Rent controls, a big issue for younger voters.

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The Green Party making commitments on that.

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The Conservatives say they would build fixed-term council

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houses that could be sold after 15 years under the right-to-buy scheme.

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Labour say they will, again, control rent rises

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and they are promising to build at least 100,000 council houses

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a year and the Liberal Democrats, 300,000 new homes every year.

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Can't get through all of them, but please do

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All the manifestos are there, from all the parties -

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They may not be old enough to vote tomorrow -

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but many teenagers across the UK will be directly affected

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BBC School Report have asked some of them what the next Prime Minister

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Dear Prime Minister, make Wi-Fi free. Myself and other young people

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want to go to university, reduce tuition fees. I want a free day week

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so, I don't have to dread Monday. I would like to make fees cheaper for

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people like me. Make rights between men and women equal. I want you to

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lower the voting aiming so we have a fair chance of deciding the future.

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Now young voters they can't vote, but many can and Jeremy Corbyn has

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been targeting them with tuition fees. It is a major planks of Jeremy

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Corbyn's idea of how he would win an election. First non-voters, people

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who stay at home and young voters, which historically don't turn up. Or

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doesn't even register. The older you get, the more likely you are to vote

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and it has been the older you are the more likely you are to vote

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Conservative. So hence the strategy. I remain sceptical, but if he turns

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out many young people he will have changed the landscape of British

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politics. Is that enough to win him an election? If it happened on the

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scale some people in the Labour Party hope, it might be enough to

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remove the Conservative majority and if you look at opinion polls, some

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of the companies are predicting high turn out among young people, up to

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08%. Traditionally they vote in the low 40s and in a good election up to

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the low 50s. That would seem to be ambitious. But he splurged ?11

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billion on the tuition pledge and some think it was an attempt to

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target those people in the university towns and cities at the

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expense of the working class, the traditional Labour voters, they

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wanted commitments on benefits. We did some work at the weekend and a

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lot of young people who are registering appear to be doing so in

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seats that Labour already holds. The problem for Jeremy Corbyn is he may

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get more votes than Ed Miliband, but may not get more seats. Looking

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ahead, if Corbyn does reasonably well, loses, but does well, is he

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then safe? It seems so. There doesn't seem, what I pick up is that

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there isn't much appetite for a second coup as the phrase was last

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year. But it comes back to what victory look like. If we have either

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an equal or a better vote share than what Ed Miliband achieved, but fewer

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seats, that is possible, if as it looks like, Jeremy Corbyn is piling

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up votes in places where Labour already hold seats or seats that

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would have gone to them any way, he is not making inroads in difficult

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areas, then it is a kind of semantic argument. He can argue, I'm a

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popular leader and I turned out so many people and those in the Labour

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Party who are critical of him and they can say we have fewer seats and

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the Conservatives have more. That is the opposite of what you want to

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achieve. It is going to be a summer of Labour wrangling, but I think

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Jeremy Corbyn will stay where he is. I agree, his position looks like it

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will be enhanced. He has a huge amount of support from the

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membership and may have more votes than Ed Miliband from the party at

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large. From the country at large. Tony Benn hailed eight million votes

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for socialism. There might be ten or 11 this time and they can point to

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the opinion polls and say a lot of this stuff is popular. For the

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moment, we will thank you. We are going to look back.

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It's been 50 days since Theresa May called a snap General Election.

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Here is a round-up of the 2017 General Election campaign

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The government should call a general election to be

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You can only have strong public services when you have the strong

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and stable leadership that delivers a strong economy.

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Strong leadership is about standing up for the many, not the few.

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I will give you the figure in a moment.

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Debates where the politicians are squabbling among themselves

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Where do you think Theresa May is tonight?

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I think the first rule of leadership is to show up.

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I believe leaders should walk the walk.

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Absolutely shocked and horrified at what happened.

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We need to ensure that our police and our security and intelligence

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The police and security services must get the resources they need.

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With me is Caroline Crampton of the New Statesman and Tim Shipman

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Let's give Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn marks out of ten for their

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campaigns. Why don't me? Tim. I will give Jeremy Corbyn 7. He has

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outperformed expectations that were very low. He had a couple of

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wobbles. The interview with the Woman's Hour was one a low and had

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die yacht Abbot not -- Diane Abbot not performed worse it may have been

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the worst of campaign. But he has given a good account of himself and

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wh he believes. Theresa May I would give 4. She has held her own, got

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back to the messages she wanted, but ultimately whether she wins or not,

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a lot of people in the Conservative Party think she is a diminished

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figure. Is that how you see it? Yes, I would go further and give Jeremy

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Corbyn 9 out of 10, given he went into the campaign on 1 or minus

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something. He has made tremendous... What about Tim Farron? He has had a

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terrible campaign. I would put him on 2. Really dreadful. In what

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sense? I think you know he was hampered at the start with all the

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stuff about his personal opinions on social issue, gay marriage and this

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stuff and he didn't shut that down quickly and allowed it to drag on

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and taint the Liberal Democrats' message and it became about his

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personality. After that, nothing else seemed to compete. They haven't

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cut through as Tim said, we are operating a two-party system it

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feels like. Tim Farron, is his leadership of the Liberal Democrats

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under threat? Depending on the results, but if it doesn't go

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brilliantly? I think so we will have three succession battles in all

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three of the main parties. Perhaps all four if you include Ukip, if

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there still a Ukip. I could give Farron 2 or 3. His campaign has been

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more disastrous than Theresa May's, because it is rendering his party

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irrelevant. He made a misjudgment in assuming the vast number of remain

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voters would rush to the Liberal Democrats, because they wanted to

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re-open the question around Brexit. It looks like most of Remain voters

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would like to move on. Even if they don't, there is nothing compelling

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about the Liberal Democrats with Tim Farron. We may end up with Vince

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Cable again. It was supposed to be the Brexit election, but it has not

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been exclusively? No, Theresa May's made her best attempts to make it

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so. Because she feels that is her point of authority and strength. But

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I think astonishing as it may feel not even a year on, we have moved

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on, most people accepted our exit from the EU as a reality and now its

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just a question of who does it best and how do we negotiate and on what

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terms do we leave. And in a word, your prediction? Tory majority of

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about 60. I've put in a prediction of 66. You must have been talking to

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each other. 60 and 66. It would surprise me if it was lower. It

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wasn't surprise me if it was nearer 100. You're keeping your options

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open. Thank you. Well, that's it from

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The Election Wrap. But before we go, we wanted

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to leave you with the Simon was shot while

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serving in Iraq in 2006. He saved the lives of

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six of his colleagues and has these thoughts for you ahead

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of polling day tomorrow. Hi there, my name is

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Simon Brown and I am a former soldier in the British

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Army. I was fortunate to survive

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the incident on the battlefield. I woke up in Birmingham

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after 18 days in a coma. To the knowledge that I'd

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lost my left eye and my right I had very little hope

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of retaining any sight. Although I survived my injuries,

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I have colleagues that didn't. And it changed my

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perspective on life. I suddenly realised

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I was a survivor, And it made me think

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about the things I have kept and not I think that some values

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that I carry forward I've served in places around

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the world where the people I really feel that

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the biggest freedom that we have is to have

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a voice and an opinion. It is so important that

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you use your voice and your opinion. You might not think it

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matters, but it truly does. And at the very least honour

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the sacrifices made to ensure I'm sure most of us would agree the

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weather's been much better today compared

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