:00:17. > :00:21.Hello and welcome to The Election Wrap -
:00:22. > :00:24.our guide to all the election news of the day.
:00:25. > :00:26.And voters have been grilling Theresa May,
:00:27. > :00:37.I'm talking about everybody, not just me. Everybody who's got
:00:38. > :00:43.learning disabilities. I want them not to have their money taken away
:00:44. > :00:45.and leaving them crippled. As well as pounding the streets,
:00:46. > :00:48.the PM's been giving interviews to regional reporters,
:00:49. > :00:51.and found time for a bit of new Politicians of every stripe
:00:52. > :00:55.are desperately trying to connect with voters,
:00:56. > :00:59.and we'll be asking, what is the best tactic,
:01:00. > :01:01.for successful communication? We'll take a look at how
:01:02. > :01:03.the campaign is faring in the East of England,
:01:04. > :01:06.where the Lib Dems are trying to fight off a determined
:01:07. > :01:08.Conservative challenge, And what about Northeast Scotland,
:01:09. > :01:12.where the SNP are working hard to keep a seat they've
:01:13. > :01:22.held since the 1980s, If you don't read the manifesto, you
:01:23. > :01:23.don't know what they are going to do. It's quite important to know
:01:24. > :01:29.what's happening to your country. And Plaid Cymru's leader
:01:30. > :01:46.Leanne Wood goes for a spin with Victoria Derbyshire,
:01:47. > :01:48.where she's asked about God... But is revealing a politician's
:01:49. > :01:54.personal side always a good idea? We'll discuss that and much more
:01:55. > :01:56.with our two panellists: Katy Balls from the Spectator and Jason Beattie
:01:57. > :02:06.of The Daily Mirror. But before all that,
:02:07. > :02:14.let's catch up on the big developments from the campaign
:02:15. > :02:16.trail, on Monday 15th May. Some have suggested Theresa May
:02:17. > :02:19.needs to meet more ordinary voters. Well, no problems with that
:02:20. > :02:36.today when she was out I'm serious, I want you to do
:02:37. > :02:41.something for us. We've got a lot of plans for people with mental health.
:02:42. > :02:46.And learning disabilities. I've got mild learning disabilities and I
:02:47. > :02:51.have carers. People jumped on the bandwagon and have got houses they
:02:52. > :02:53.shouldn't have got. You've done a marvellous job. Keep it up. We want
:02:54. > :02:57.to leave. Providing an elected. Well tough questions
:02:58. > :02:59.followed the Prime Minister, when she took part in a lengthy
:03:00. > :03:02.Facebook Live interview One question came from
:03:03. > :03:12.a well known viewer. Perhaps surprisingly, I've got a
:03:13. > :03:16.question from a Jeremy Corbyn of Islington. He says, as Prime
:03:17. > :03:24.Minister you have served your elite friends by giving them tax cuts.
:03:25. > :03:30.Housing is at its lowest since 2010 and the NHS is in crisis. Do you not
:03:31. > :03:36.think the British people deserve to see you debate live on television.
:03:37. > :03:42.What I think is more important is that I and he take the question
:03:43. > :03:45.directly from the voters. I don't think people get much from seeing
:03:46. > :03:48.politicians have a go at each other. They want to hear directly.
:03:49. > :03:51.As well as heckling the Prime Minister over refusing
:03:52. > :03:53.to do the TV debates, Labour's Jeremy Corbyn has been
:03:54. > :03:58.He told nurses about his plans to inject an extra 37 billion pounds
:03:59. > :04:04.And later on he gave supporters a preview of what may be in Labour's
:04:05. > :04:17.Tomorrow, our manifesto will be launched in Bradford. Many of you
:04:18. > :04:23.have had a sneak preview anyway. You may have had some ideas fed to you.
:04:24. > :04:27.It's the manifesto that will deal with the is use of health and
:04:28. > :04:35.housing and of education within our society. But it's also a manifesto
:04:36. > :04:41.that values people. That doesn't want so many of our elderly lacking
:04:42. > :04:45.the services they need but, above all, living in isolation and
:04:46. > :04:52.loneliness. So many of our young people wracked with debt because
:04:53. > :04:55.they went to college all university and unable to work at the level of
:04:56. > :04:59.their skills because we haven't had the proper investment in sustainable
:05:00. > :05:01.industries for the future and new technologies.
:05:02. > :05:03.Liberal Democrat Leader Tim Farron says he wants to abolish
:05:04. > :05:06.the public sector pay cap, which limits pay rises
:05:07. > :05:10.He says nurses could be ?780 a year better off.
:05:11. > :05:13.And he revealed himself to be a secret Star Wars fan,
:05:14. > :05:15.telling nurses "We are literally, to quote Princess Leia,
:05:16. > :05:23.Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has demanded
:05:24. > :05:26.the Scottish Government has a role in the UK's Brexit negotiations.
:05:27. > :05:29.The SNP government wants Scotland to remain in the EU,
:05:30. > :05:34.and in particular the single market.
:05:35. > :05:42.This election gives me a mandate to demand that Scotland is represented
:05:43. > :05:47.in the UK negotiating team, that our interests are central to these
:05:48. > :05:49.negotiations. That matters because jobs, living standards and
:05:50. > :05:57.investment will be affected by the outcome of Brexit Pisi agents. We've
:05:58. > :06:01.seen Theresa May dismiss out of hand sensible compromise proposal by the
:06:02. > :06:06.Scottish Government to protect our place in the single market. This
:06:07. > :06:12.gives as an opportunity to give these proposals democratic
:06:13. > :06:20.legitimacy. -- the outcome of Brexit negotiations.
:06:21. > :06:23.Let's speak my guests who are with me for tonight's
:06:24. > :06:25.programme, Katy Balls from the Spectator and Jason
:06:26. > :06:36.Theresa May out on the stump. She did she deal with that person
:06:37. > :06:41.speaking to her quite heatedly out on the streets. She's been
:06:42. > :06:46.criticised for not getting out and about and meeting members of the
:06:47. > :06:51.public. Today she did it for the first time. She met some members of
:06:52. > :06:57.the public and they were... It was as difficult as you could imagine.
:06:58. > :07:01.You don't want to be too harsh. You criticise her when she is not out
:07:02. > :07:06.there and you criticise her for getting and if all today. Some
:07:07. > :07:11.people were quite supported but she was confronted on the issues she is
:07:12. > :07:19.most vulnerable on, welfare cuts which have hurt an awful lot of
:07:20. > :07:23.people. Here was a photo with a genuine grievance, who has had
:07:24. > :07:29.disability payments cuts because of the introduction of pips. She had
:07:30. > :07:37.this line that could have come from an opposition manifesto, why does
:07:38. > :07:46.all the money go to the fact cats -- the fat cat and why not us? Jeremy
:07:47. > :07:53.Corbyn must be happy about the NHS being in the debate. Labour want to
:07:54. > :07:57.make this whole election about domestic issues partly because they
:07:58. > :08:03.are weak on Brexit and can't decide their position. They are hoping to
:08:04. > :08:06.flesh out what they can do to help ordinary voters day to day. We are
:08:07. > :08:15.going to talk to you later. As we've been hearing Theresa May
:08:16. > :08:19.has been in the South of England, talking to voters about her plans
:08:20. > :08:21.to boost workers' rights. She's also been taking questions
:08:22. > :08:23.from regional media -- including this interview by BBC
:08:24. > :08:35.South Today's presenter Was their money from years combined
:08:36. > :08:43.that was used to pay for day-to-day health care? Was that why we were in
:08:44. > :08:47.this situation? The NHS has to take care of its cyber security. I
:08:48. > :08:54.understand that warnings were given that it had to be up-to-date. 150
:08:55. > :08:59.countries are involved in this and 200,000 victims, according to Europe
:09:00. > :09:07.poll. We take cyber security very seriously. We setup the new national
:09:08. > :09:10.cyber Security Centre which has been working with the NHS and with staff
:09:11. > :09:17.in the NHS to ensure that patient care has been compromised. Let's
:09:18. > :09:22.talk about Brexit. BMW are building the mini at Cowley around the
:09:23. > :09:25.corner. They are not committing to building the electric mini until
:09:26. > :09:31.they know what is going to happen in the future. Companies like BMW will
:09:32. > :09:37.be looking for the government to produce a good deal for the UK so we
:09:38. > :09:41.have is free and frictionless trade across borders with DEV. We have
:09:42. > :09:46.planned to go into those negotiations working for a comp
:09:47. > :09:49.rents of free trade agreement. We want to make sure that the
:09:50. > :09:54.automotive sector which is important here and in other parts of the UK is
:09:55. > :09:57.competitive into the future. To do that, you need strong and stable
:09:58. > :10:01.leadership and a strong and in those negotiations.
:10:02. > :10:05.One area where Brexit is very much part of the election debate is Moray
:10:06. > :10:09.It's a seat that's been held by the SNP since the '80s,
:10:10. > :10:12.but the Conservatives hope they can win it back in a few weeks time.
:10:13. > :10:14.Our Scotland political correspondent Nick Eardley is in Burghead
:10:15. > :10:25.Nick, over to you. I'm standing right on Scotland's north-east
:10:26. > :10:32.coast. This is the area of Scotland that came closest to voting to leave
:10:33. > :10:39.the European Union that in June. Every local counting area returned a
:10:40. > :10:44.remaining results but it was extraordinarily close here. What
:10:45. > :10:54.role is Brexit playing in the general election debate? This seat
:10:55. > :10:58.is held by the SNP deputy leader Angus Robertson. The Conservatives
:10:59. > :11:04.are hoping to revive here and they are talking about this as a main
:11:05. > :11:13.target seat. I have been trying to look at the battle for Moray and
:11:14. > :11:19.cooking a dish. This is the home of the famous Colleen skink soup. The
:11:20. > :11:29.locals who catch this stuff are mixed with a large agricultural
:11:30. > :11:41.sector, service sector and staff here at the hotel. Ian Watson voted
:11:42. > :11:46.remain. If anything is happening, we've just got to make sure it's the
:11:47. > :11:52.best that can be. Angus Robson has been MP here since 2001. One of the
:11:53. > :11:58.year's most vocal supporters at Westminster. It's going to be me or
:11:59. > :12:04.a Tory who is going to give a blank cheque to Theresa May which I don't
:12:05. > :12:11.think is going to be a good idea given how important the single
:12:12. > :12:17.market is for the economy of Moray. The SNP had a 9000 majority in 2015.
:12:18. > :12:22.Top Tories think their message to voters is getting through. They are
:12:23. > :12:26.concerned that the Scottish Nationalists will take as out of
:12:27. > :12:32.Westminster and go straight back into Europe. The majority of people
:12:33. > :12:35.who voted remain are concerned that their vote is taken as a proxy to
:12:36. > :12:42.hold another divisive independence referendum. We are going to fight
:12:43. > :12:48.the Tory hard Brexit because we believe it will be very damaging to
:12:49. > :12:52.the economy. Especially as Moray relies on exports in the food and
:12:53. > :12:57.drink industry. We are the only party that can offer them the other
:12:58. > :13:02.opportunity to look at how we fit into Europe in the long term and how
:13:03. > :13:07.Scotland can remain in the UK. Back at the hotel, the verdict on my
:13:08. > :13:14.attempt at the local dish. I would serve it. The issue here is whether
:13:15. > :13:20.Moray will turn conservative blue. And here is a full list
:13:21. > :13:23.of candidates standing Now, although the wind may have been
:13:24. > :13:32.taken out of Labour's sails after last week's leak,
:13:33. > :13:34.but this week of the campaign is expected to see a series
:13:35. > :13:36.of stage-managed launches of the party manifestos -
:13:37. > :13:39.the official pitch to voters. As those carefully considered
:13:40. > :13:41.promises make their way to the printers,
:13:42. > :13:43.Ellie Price from the BBC's Daily Politics team
:13:44. > :13:45.has been to Newcastle. Where she's conducted a very
:13:46. > :13:47.unscientific poll on how much attention voters actually pay
:13:48. > :14:06.to party manifestos. Welcome to Gateshead and Newcastle
:14:07. > :14:14.where there is an air of anticipation because this week the
:14:15. > :14:20.party published their manifestos. Do they affect the way you vote? Yes or
:14:21. > :14:30.no? I was brought up to be a Labour voter. Nearly, Diane Abbott, Jeremy
:14:31. > :14:37.Corbyn, Thornbury? Really, no. There is nothing they can say in their
:14:38. > :14:42.manifesto. Tories are going to concentrate on Brexit and strong and
:14:43. > :14:45.stable leadership. A shallow one-liner that they have come up
:14:46. > :14:51.with. I don't think we are going to get any more. I couldn't vote for
:14:52. > :14:59.Jeremy Corbyn if he was last man on earth. Whatever he says in the
:15:00. > :15:04.manifesto? Exactly. Because he won't carry it out. Will you vote for the
:15:05. > :15:12.Tories regardless of what is in their manifesto? Yes. I'll scan
:15:13. > :15:24.through it. I'm not going to read the whole thing. It doesn't matter
:15:25. > :15:31.what they say. Any of you going to read the party manifestos? What? I
:15:32. > :15:38.don't know what that is. I'm going to read them to give them an equal
:15:39. > :15:42.chance. If you don't read the manifesto, you don't know what they
:15:43. > :15:49.are going to do. And it is quite important to know what's happening
:15:50. > :15:52.to your country. Corbyn has been a good leader and he will be a good
:15:53. > :16:00.leader for the future. We know what is in it. We know what is in it!
:16:01. > :16:07.With the manifesto change the way you vote? Probably not. I'm going to
:16:08. > :16:12.vote for the best option to get rid of the Tories. It's going to be
:16:13. > :16:18.tactical. Already decided, thank you. Labour seats in this part of
:16:19. > :16:26.the world have traditionally been pretty safe. The results today,
:16:27. > :16:33.pretty marginal. But overall it seems the party manifestos won't
:16:34. > :16:36.influence the way people vote. Probably the most considered comment
:16:37. > :16:42.came from a six-year-old girl. Do people actually bother with the
:16:43. > :16:48.manifestos, even though this is a crucial week when you think about
:16:49. > :16:59.it? And the six-year-old obviously can't vote. Give her time. A lot of
:17:00. > :17:04.people have already made their minds up. Certain policies will begin to
:17:05. > :17:12.cut through especially when they have to go and defend them over the
:17:13. > :17:16.next few weeks. We saw in a Mirror poll that the Labour draft manifesto
:17:17. > :17:19.was popular. People like the policies but they don't like the man
:17:20. > :17:28.leading the party that has those policies. Your paper did the poll.
:17:29. > :17:36.They say that the manifesto will have costing. It is estimated that
:17:37. > :17:43.80 billion pounds worth of promises are in there. They are saying it is
:17:44. > :17:49.fully costed and responsible and reliable but will the sums add up?
:17:50. > :17:54.There is going to be a team of Tory staffers at HQ tomorrow going
:17:55. > :17:58.through it line by line. You hope that Labour has done the same amount
:17:59. > :18:05.of homework. Up to now, they have used tax-raising measures such as
:18:06. > :18:09.capital gains tax to pay for various objectives. Which of them are nailed
:18:10. > :18:12.down and have they done it thoroughly enough not to leave
:18:13. > :18:18.themselves open to attack. That's the important thing tomorrow.
:18:19. > :18:21.Let's move on to the Election in East Anglia and the Conservative
:18:22. > :18:24.campaign to win North Norfolk from the Lib Dems stepped up today.
:18:25. > :18:27.The Justice Secretary Elizabeth Truss was in North Walsham,
:18:28. > :18:31.Labour has also made the seat a target.
:18:32. > :18:43.North Norfolk is the only Lib Dem seat in Norfolk, Suffolk or Essex
:18:44. > :18:50.and the Conservatives want it. Today, a Tory big fun was drafted
:18:51. > :19:01.in. The Justice Secretary and South West Norfolk candidate Liz Trust. We
:19:02. > :19:07.have fought to get things like the AA 11 of grade, to get RAF Marham
:19:08. > :19:11.secured, to get the a 47 further upgraded. We want the great
:19:12. > :19:16.Conservative MP here in North Norfolk that can help us fight for a
:19:17. > :19:22.better deal for the whole county. The numbers are pretty stark. Ukip
:19:23. > :19:28.Ukip voters from 2015 switch to the Ukip voters from 2015 switch to the
:19:29. > :19:34.Conservatives, Lib Dem Norman Lamb could be out. He took North Norfolk
:19:35. > :19:41.from the Conservatives in 2001 but defending a majority of 4500, he's
:19:42. > :19:45.fighting for his future as an MP. We knew that it was going to be a
:19:46. > :19:50.target seat and we're ready for them. Norman has a huge track record
:19:51. > :19:54.that their candidate doesn't have. He's been their representative for
:19:55. > :20:02.16 years and worked hard for them for that time. What can they put up
:20:03. > :20:08.against that? North Norfolk was a Labour seat until 1970. Recently
:20:09. > :20:14.Labour has come third. This time, they say local party members are
:20:15. > :20:21.their biggest weapon. We have almost 700 members, more than all of the
:20:22. > :20:25.other parties combined. Unlike the Tories and Lib Dems who are shipping
:20:26. > :20:33.in volunteers, we have a lot of members locally. It's like going
:20:34. > :20:36.back to the old days with just three candidates but will that translate
:20:37. > :20:40.to an easy decision for voters come election day?
:20:41. > :20:43.And here is the full list of candidates standing
:20:44. > :21:04.You're watching The Election Wrap in BBC News - some of the other
:21:05. > :21:07.Jeremy Corbyn has defended the appointment of a former
:21:08. > :21:09.Communist Party member, who once expressed "solidarity"
:21:10. > :21:11.with North Korea, to his election campaign team.
:21:12. > :21:13.The Labour leader said he did not believe Andrew Murray,
:21:14. > :21:16.seen here in the foreground, was a Stalinist, and stressed
:21:17. > :21:18.his "special skills" were being used to "temporarily" help the campaign.
:21:19. > :21:20.Ukip's economy spokesman, Patrick O'Flynn has defended
:21:21. > :21:22.the party's decision to stand aside in some seats for
:21:23. > :21:26.Mr O'Flynn said they were fielding candidates in just over
:21:27. > :21:28.half of the 650 seats because of the "radically
:21:29. > :21:32.He insisted the party was aiming to win a "cluster"
:21:33. > :21:38.The Green Party has pledged to scrap what it calls "pointless" SATs,
:21:39. > :21:41.and abolish academies, as part of plans to shake up
:21:42. > :21:45.The party says it wants to free teachers and children from national
:21:46. > :21:49.tests and put "enjoyment" back into schools.
:21:50. > :21:52.To the campaign in Wales now and the Nationalist party
:21:53. > :22:01.Plaid Cymru say they wouldn't rule out a coalition with Labour if it
:22:02. > :22:03.meant stopping the Conservatives in "wreaking havoc in Wales".
:22:04. > :22:08.The party's leader Leanne Wood has taken a road trip with the BBC's
:22:09. > :22:24.But as you can imagine she wasn't only asked about the campaign.
:22:25. > :22:36.But when I was younger and a student, I tried a few things.
:22:37. > :22:39.I would rather not go into the details of
:22:40. > :22:53.So, in that sense, you have broken the law in the past. Have you broken
:22:54. > :23:07.any other laws? Possibly some driving offences. No others that I'm
:23:08. > :23:14.aware of. Do you believe in God? No. Why? No evidence has come my way
:23:15. > :23:21.that would convince me that God exists. I'm asking you this because
:23:22. > :23:32.the leader of the Lib Dems was irritated that nobody else was as
:23:33. > :23:40.this. Is gay sex a sin? No. In your house, do you have girl jobs and boy
:23:41. > :23:48.jobs? No. In my house, my partner does most of the house work so they
:23:49. > :23:53.are all his jobs really. I've put on some music to relieve the stress.
:23:54. > :24:02.# It's all over the front page, you give me road rage...
:24:03. > :24:11.# You're driving me crazy, thinking you're maybe... When I told my
:24:12. > :24:15.daughter I was doing a car interview, my daughter said are you
:24:16. > :24:23.going to do car karaoke? I said, no way. Victoria is doing that for the
:24:24. > :24:31.whole of the campaign. We will bring you every episode here on BBC News.
:24:32. > :24:32.Politics and personality. We saw Leanne Wood trying to show a
:24:33. > :24:35.different side of who she is. Do these attempts to personalise
:24:36. > :24:47.politicians actually work? For somebody like her who was not
:24:48. > :24:51.very well known, it's probably not a bad idea. Although, Cerys Matthews
:24:52. > :24:58.is properly being sick into a paper bag. It's now incumbent for
:24:59. > :25:04.politicians to pretend if they have a personality even if they don't in
:25:05. > :25:08.some cases. It is always a risk. Sometimes you may show a side of
:25:09. > :25:13.yourself which might not play quite so well with voters. I think it's
:25:14. > :25:19.inevitable now, part of modern electioneering, they want to see
:25:20. > :25:24.what you're like, kind of, in real life, so to speak. You sometimes
:25:25. > :25:30.find in real life they are even more boring than in public life. A lot of
:25:31. > :25:37.people say it is about issues and policies. But they don't want a
:25:38. > :25:41.robot running the country sometimes. I think we are turning away from
:25:42. > :25:49.putting so much emphasis on personality. With David Cameron and
:25:50. > :25:53.Ed Miliband in 2015, they did too many PR interviews. Too many for Ed
:25:54. > :25:58.Miliband because it revealed that he had two kitchens. Theresa May did
:25:59. > :26:03.one on the one show that showed her softer side but people like that she
:26:04. > :26:13.has no nonsense and that is why she has such a following. Is Jeremy
:26:14. > :26:21.Corbyn the best that this or is he too chilled sometimes? Sometimes.
:26:22. > :26:26.But he gave a very chilled interview and moments later gave a very
:26:27. > :26:30.passionate speech. He is extraordinarily consistent for good
:26:31. > :26:35.or bad. For 40 years he has had the same beliefs. He is very comfortable
:26:36. > :26:39.with being Jeremy Corbyn. The danger is when you try to feign a something
:26:40. > :26:47.that you are not. I don't think that is going to happen with Corbyn. He
:26:48. > :26:49.likes potholes and he believes deeply in socialism.
:26:50. > :26:52.That's it for Election Wrap, thank you again Katy Balls
:26:53. > :26:58.and Jason Beattie, stay tuned for all the news headlines