:00:00. > :00:10.Hello and welcome to The Election Wrap, your essential
:00:11. > :00:20.guide to today's campaigning, right across the UK...
:00:21. > :00:23.Theresa May puts her best foot forward at a factory in Bolton,
:00:24. > :00:25.after unveiling her party's manifesto across the Pennines.
:00:26. > :00:29.How do you feel it went Prime Minister?
:00:30. > :00:33.The stage is set for the first televised leaders' debate
:00:34. > :00:35.of the campaign tonight in Salford - but the two biggest
:00:36. > :00:37.beasts in the political jungle are staying away.
:00:38. > :00:46.Will voters care about the noticeable absentees?
:00:47. > :00:49.If the campaign hasn't been enough of a roller-coaster for you so far -
:00:50. > :00:52.there's the offer of cut-price entry to the rides at Thorpe Park
:00:53. > :00:54.for young voters who register by Monday's deadline.
:00:55. > :00:58.Does it matter to you whether your local MP is one
:00:59. > :01:08.Where you are interested in politics when you were 16? No, just boys!
:01:09. > :01:10.And should 16 year olds get the vote?
:01:11. > :01:13.We ask shoppers in Carlisle to pop a ball into our general election
:01:14. > :01:17.So lots to talk about with our panel...
:01:18. > :01:19.The political journalist, Martha Gill, and George Eaton
:01:20. > :01:29.Let's catch up on the latest developments
:01:30. > :01:39.Theresa May has laid out her vision to tackle the "great challenges"
:01:40. > :01:42.facing the UK - including Brexit, the economy and an ageing society.
:01:43. > :01:47.The Conservative party's manifesto includes proposals to change the way
:01:48. > :01:50.social care in England is funded, and to withdraw winter fuel payments
:01:51. > :01:54.Mrs May outlined her policies on social care
:01:55. > :02:06.The government that I lead would build a Briton in which the economy
:02:07. > :02:10.is strong. To support world-class public services. With the most
:02:11. > :02:15.ambitious programme of investment in technology and buildings that the
:02:16. > :02:21.NHS has ever seen. Record and fair funding for schools. Real technical
:02:22. > :02:28.education for young people. And, the first-ever proper plan to pay for
:02:29. > :02:31.and provide social care. Strong public services do not just provide
:02:32. > :02:38.security and enhance opportunity. They are vital institutions that
:02:39. > :02:43.bring us all together. Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn will be absent as
:02:44. > :02:44.Britain's political leaders take part in a prime-time TV debate this
:02:45. > :02:46.evening. The ITV event will see
:02:47. > :02:49.Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, Ukip's Paul Nuttall and the SNP's
:02:50. > :02:51.Nicola Sturgeon lock horns. Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood and Green
:02:52. > :02:54.co-leader Caroline Lucas will also take part in the two-hour show
:02:55. > :02:59.being broadcast from Salford at 8pm. The Prime Minister has refused
:03:00. > :03:02.to take part in TV debates and the Labour leader said
:03:03. > :03:14.he would not participate A TV debate must include the Prime
:03:15. > :03:18.Minister, the leader of the Conservative Party. That would be a
:03:19. > :03:21.proper debate. I made the offer, many times, since the day the
:03:22. > :03:26.election was called. The Prime Minister said in the last Prime
:03:27. > :03:31.Minister's Questions time, this is the end of the debate, now it is the
:03:32. > :03:37.election campaign. There has to be a debate with the leader's of the
:03:38. > :03:40.party. I'm proud of the Labour Party and the manifesto for the many and
:03:41. > :03:43.not the few. She should come along and have a discussion.
:03:44. > :03:46.Alex Salmond spreads the love - the former SNP leader has been out
:03:47. > :03:49.glad-handing supporters in Edinburgh.
:03:50. > :03:59.And it turns out reporters as well. Listen to this exchange with the
:04:00. > :04:02.BBC's Catreena Renton. Hello! Are you well? I'm very good. It feels
:04:03. > :04:06.like a long time since I've seen you! I know, I've been missing you!
:04:07. > :04:08.The Christian Peoples Alliance has launched
:04:09. > :04:19.Among their policies are a grant of 10,000 pounds
:04:20. > :04:21.to first-time married couples, and a further 5,000 pounds
:04:22. > :04:25.But leader Sid Cordle says their flagship policy
:04:26. > :04:31.Because we, as Christians, are running food banks, we understand
:04:32. > :04:36.why people are going and what policies we need to stop it. We want
:04:37. > :04:40.people on disability benefits to not have it taken off them unless they
:04:41. > :04:45.have an alternative source of income. We want people who apply for
:04:46. > :04:52.benefits, the day that they apply, to get benefits. At the moment
:04:53. > :04:55.people have two weights and weeks and we want everyone who is sleeping
:04:56. > :05:01.homeless to have a shot at ago too. We will have free night shelters for
:05:02. > :05:03.all people as long as they are not on drink and drugs -- to have a
:05:04. > :05:04.shelter to go to. So Theresa May has launched
:05:05. > :05:06.the Conservative manifesto, with a promise to be "upfront
:05:07. > :05:08.and straight" about There are measures to bring down
:05:09. > :05:12.immigration, as well as proposals to increase charges for companies
:05:13. > :05:14.who hire workers Let's take a look in more
:05:15. > :05:17.detail at the figures, Chris Morris and the BBC's
:05:18. > :05:20.Reality Check team have been taking a look at some
:05:21. > :05:27.of the all-important numbers behind After weeks of hearing about strong
:05:28. > :05:32.and stable leadership, we finally have some details to look out.
:05:33. > :05:35.Unlike Labour and the Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives haven't
:05:36. > :05:39.so far released overall costings in a single table. We are working on
:05:40. > :05:47.those. But there are some headline numbers. The Tories say they will
:05:48. > :05:51.balance the budget by 2020 to five -- 2025 and will increase NHS
:05:52. > :05:55.spending by a minimum of ?8 billion over the next five years. Let's look
:05:56. > :05:58.at it few more specific policies. Social care changes that we have
:05:59. > :06:04.heard about will mean tens of thousands of more families have to
:06:05. > :06:08.pay for social care at home. But everyone drove retain at least
:06:09. > :06:12.?100,000 of their savings and assets, including value in the
:06:13. > :06:16.family home. It is a policy designed to take account of the fact that we
:06:17. > :06:20.are living longer. The Conservatives want to raise money by means testing
:06:21. > :06:25.the winter fuel allowance. Ensuring payments only go to the least
:06:26. > :06:29.wealthy pensioners. This scheme costs about ?3 billion per year at
:06:30. > :06:35.the moment. Means testing could save about half of that. One revenue
:06:36. > :06:40.raising measure that Labour and the Liberal Democrats have promised is
:06:41. > :06:45.an income in -- is an increase in income tax but not the Tories. In
:06:46. > :06:50.this manifesto while there is not an absolute promise in increasing
:06:51. > :06:52.insurance and so on, there is a modest set of proposals which
:06:53. > :06:58.probably will not require terribly much in the way of tax increases. A
:06:59. > :07:02.big Conservative promise in the camera in years was the triple lock
:07:03. > :07:08.on pensions. Under which the state pension rises by the rate of
:07:09. > :07:13.inflation, average earnings, or 2.5%, which ever is highest. Theresa
:07:14. > :07:17.May wants to scrap it, losing the 2.5% guarantee. That would give the
:07:18. > :07:22.government more flexibility but it is impossible to say how much money
:07:23. > :07:26.it could save. Moving to education, the Conservatives want to boost
:07:27. > :07:30.school funding by ?4 billion in the next Parliament. One of the ways
:07:31. > :07:33.they plan on raising that money is scrapping universal free school
:07:34. > :07:38.lunches for infants. Replacing them with much cheaper free school
:07:39. > :07:42.breakfasts in primary schools. Again, the manifesto contains no
:07:43. > :07:46.precise costing for this. Immigration policy looms large in
:07:47. > :07:51.Conservative plans. They plan to double from ?1000 to ?2000, the
:07:52. > :07:54.amount that companies have few paid to import highly skilled workers
:07:55. > :07:59.from outside of the EU. We don't really know how much it could raise.
:08:00. > :08:04.The Conservatives have reaffirmed their target of cutting overall net
:08:05. > :08:09.migration to less than 100,000 per year. But, there will be a cost
:08:10. > :08:14.involved. The independent Office for Budget Responsibility has estimated
:08:15. > :08:21.it could cost ?5.9 billion to cut annual net migration from about
:08:22. > :08:27.273,000 now, to 185000 by 20 21. That is because of things like a
:08:28. > :08:30.lower tax take a higher proportion of nonworking people in the overall
:08:31. > :08:36.population. That is still a long way short of the ?100,000 target. -- the
:08:37. > :08:42.100,000 target. It will be taken into account in the debate to come
:08:43. > :08:45.and the emphasis is that this is an election taking place in the shadow
:08:46. > :08:52.of the looming Brexit negotiations. The negotiations we are about to
:08:53. > :08:58.begin with the EU will not be easy. They will be challenging and at
:08:59. > :09:02.times, they will be tough. In Theresa May, Britain has a Prime
:09:03. > :09:06.Minister with the strength to lead Britain through these negotiations,
:09:07. > :09:10.and make a success of the future. But the outcome of those
:09:11. > :09:16.negotiations over the next smack years is deeply uncertain. The
:09:17. > :09:20.manifesto reasserts that no deal with the EU is better than a bad
:09:21. > :09:24.deal -- the next two years. So EU negotiations will probably do more
:09:25. > :09:27.than anything else in the next Parliament to determine the health
:09:28. > :09:29.of the British economy and the chance for any political party to
:09:30. > :09:34.put their promises into practice. Well Martha and George -
:09:35. > :09:43.what are your first thoughts This manifesto seems to be a massive
:09:44. > :09:48.display of confidence by Theresa May, with a big lead in the polls,
:09:49. > :09:52.she knows the right wing papers like the Daily Mail are really on her
:09:53. > :09:57.side. They will back her no matter how policies. What she has been able
:09:58. > :10:03.to do is risk her core voters, the pensioners and people who want older
:10:04. > :10:09.voters, by scrapping fuel payments, and by taking money away from
:10:10. > :10:13.people's Estates to pay for social care. She is now reaching out to
:10:14. > :10:19.other voters on the margins, both on the right, who want to control
:10:20. > :10:23.immigration. And also on the left. George, how did you see it? What
:10:24. > :10:27.struck me was that this is the most interventionist Conservative
:10:28. > :10:30.manifesto we have seen in decades. Theresa May isn't seeking to
:10:31. > :10:35.overturn the Thatcherite settlement in the way that Labour's manifesto
:10:36. > :10:40.promised but she is taking a far more sceptical view of the markets
:10:41. > :10:46.and a less hostile view of the state in any Conservative leader since the
:10:47. > :10:50.1970s. The energy price cap, representation on company boards, a
:10:51. > :10:54.new generation on council homes, borrowing for investment homes, it's
:10:55. > :10:57.a sharp break from recent Conservative traditions. And it
:10:58. > :11:03.struck me, the front cover of the manifesto. In 2015 it was the
:11:04. > :11:13.Conservatives, this time it is the Conservative and Unionist party.
:11:14. > :11:15.That is their fault title, which Mrs May emphasised when she became Prime
:11:16. > :11:17.Minister, and is a helping hand to Ruth Davidson, currently presiding
:11:18. > :11:18.over a big Tory revival there. And what do
:11:19. > :11:21.the general public think on that proposed big change in social care
:11:22. > :11:24.funding? We dropped into a day centre
:11:25. > :11:27.in Suffolk, which is a popular meeting place for the over 60s,
:11:28. > :11:30.who stop by for a chat over coffee and biscuits to see what they think
:11:31. > :11:35.of the Conservatives plans. People who have worked all of their
:11:36. > :11:38.lives are struggling. They are struggling more than ever. A lot of
:11:39. > :11:43.people have had to dig into their savings in order to survive and pay
:11:44. > :11:49.the bills. I cannot understand why all of these financial boffins at
:11:50. > :11:54.the top cannot get it right! We paying a fortune abroad? Why did we
:11:55. > :12:01.support the NHS and those in dire straits here who fought the country
:12:02. > :12:04.-- who fought for the country? I've worked hard and I want to leave
:12:05. > :12:08.something for my grandchildren and my children. I have four children
:12:09. > :12:10.and I would love to do some thing for them. The
:12:11. > :12:17.social care funding, how big a political risk are the Conservatives
:12:18. > :12:23.taking here, do you think? The biggest risk would have been doing
:12:24. > :12:26.nothing. Every analyst, every MP, perhaps only in private, agrees if
:12:27. > :12:32.you do nothing you are heading for an almighty crisis. And the only way
:12:33. > :12:36.to improve social care is to raise more money from voters. The
:12:37. > :12:41.Conservatives are giving, in one respect, now you will no longer have
:12:42. > :12:47.to pay any more after you are down to your last 100,000, after 23,000,
:12:48. > :12:51.but they take with the other hand in that home owners and those who have
:12:52. > :12:55.received care in their home will have to pay potentially a lot more.
:12:56. > :12:58.They are means testing winter fuel payments quite aggressively. It
:12:59. > :13:03.isn't a big political risk. They have a big lead in the polls,
:13:04. > :13:07.especially among the over 65 's. It will be interesting to see if it is
:13:08. > :13:14.dented at all, given that Labour is looking to maintain the double lock
:13:15. > :13:18.-- the triple lock. If Labour cannot pick up more pensioners now, when
:13:19. > :13:24.can they? Who are the winners and losers in that measure? In the
:13:25. > :13:28.social care chain? It is people who have decided to pour all of their
:13:29. > :13:34.money into homeowning, with the hope of handing it on to their kids. Now,
:13:35. > :13:39.they are going to see that depleted to fund their care. Before, it hit a
:13:40. > :13:43.point where once you have run through all of your cash, where you
:13:44. > :13:48.get free social care, now it is going to kick in and cut into your
:13:49. > :13:54.home as well. And a question that we posed a moment ago, when we all come
:13:55. > :14:00.to vote for our potential MPs, does it matter on their gender? Mrs May
:14:01. > :14:01.is our second female Prime Minister, many women in high profile positions
:14:02. > :14:09.in other parties. In this election, there
:14:10. > :14:11.are more women running Overall, about 30% of
:14:12. > :14:14.candidates are women - up from the previous record
:14:15. > :14:16.of 26% in 2015. After the last election, women
:14:17. > :14:20.made up 30% of MPs in the Commons. The Labour Party, Lib Dems
:14:21. > :14:23.and the SNP all approve. The Conservatives say
:14:24. > :14:26.they don't see the need. The Women's Equality Party have been
:14:27. > :14:29.telling us why they think female representation in the Commons
:14:30. > :14:41.still has a way to go to achieve Some of the old parties, there are
:14:42. > :14:47.senior people in those parties who grew up when there was no sex
:14:48. > :14:51.discrimination act or no equal pay act, and think, what are you
:14:52. > :14:59.complaining about? We passed those laws, or say you don't know, you
:15:00. > :15:02.weren't born. Many of us have grown up where there were those acts, and
:15:03. > :15:07.we expect to be treated differently. In many respects we still are not
:15:08. > :15:11.and we want a parliament but represents us properly. How much
:15:12. > :15:18.does it matter to voters, Martha? I'm not sure. I think that voters
:15:19. > :15:27.are, sort of, riled up if they see that there is inequality within a
:15:28. > :15:31.party, and they feel misrepresented. But within a constituency, I do not
:15:32. > :15:34.think voters will particularly mind if they are voting for a man or a
:15:35. > :15:43.woman, it depends on the individual's representation. --
:15:44. > :15:52.reputation. And then you might have those. Violi method that is shown to
:15:53. > :15:55.reliably improve representation is all women short lists. The
:15:56. > :16:03.Conservative retorts, and Theresa May enjoys teasing. They have had
:16:04. > :16:13.two female leaders. They have had acting with Harriet Harmon, for
:16:14. > :16:16.Labour. But it is hard for the Conservatives, I think. If they're
:16:17. > :16:19.female representation does not improve, I think there will be
:16:20. > :16:21.questions. Theresa May, why aren't you looking at an all women short
:16:22. > :16:24.list in a moderate form? Many of the leaders
:16:25. > :16:26.will be sparring tonight as the leaders debate programme -
:16:27. > :16:29.being broadcast on ITV - But, there are two
:16:30. > :16:33.notable exceptions. In the blue corner, Theresa May has
:16:34. > :16:36.refused to debate live on TV And in the red corner,
:16:37. > :16:43.Jeremy Corbyn says he won't be there Now a lot is made of the adversarial
:16:44. > :16:47.nature of politics, particularly if you watch
:16:48. > :16:48.Prime Minister's So we thought we'd take it a step
:16:49. > :16:53.further, and get four candidates to slug it out in the ring,
:16:54. > :16:57.and fight for their own policies. Noel Phillips asked a couple
:16:58. > :17:09.of voters if they landed In the red corner, hoping to land a
:17:10. > :17:11.punch for his party is the former Labour MP and government minister
:17:12. > :17:17.Jim Fitzpatrick. For Ukip, it is Daniel Wolfe, on a
:17:18. > :17:23.mission to prove that his party is still an electoral force.
:17:24. > :17:26.In the blue corner, Shaun Bailey, a former Downing Street adviser to
:17:27. > :17:29.David Cameron. And on a campaign to overturn the
:17:30. > :17:32.status quo for the Liberal Democrats, it is Keith Angus.
:17:33. > :17:42.BELL Theresa May is calling the election
:17:43. > :17:46.to gain more power and bring Brexit through but she is a remain MP. She
:17:47. > :17:51.said she was and you cannot change this for political gain. If she
:17:52. > :17:55.wants to give people a say, why when she and the Brexit deal? She gave
:17:56. > :17:58.them a say in the referendum and she knows what they voted for. She is
:17:59. > :18:06.going for a hard and divisive Brexit. Most people say that the
:18:07. > :18:10.referendum was last year, they want to know... Why has ?3 billion being
:18:11. > :18:14.wiped off the education budget? Why is the health service on its needs?
:18:15. > :18:19.Why have we lost so many police officers? If you want to get
:18:20. > :18:23.people... You want doctors and nurses in the NHS, if you want to
:18:24. > :18:27.train home-grown talent, welcome them from the EU instead of telling
:18:28. > :18:31.them that they are not welcome. Recruitment is at a crisis in the
:18:32. > :18:39.NHS because EU workers will not come here now. Why is that? Are you proud
:18:40. > :18:43.of that? Seven years you've been in power. Seven years! And the health
:18:44. > :18:49.service is in crisis in every single year since you have been in power.
:18:50. > :18:52.The last Labour government left to power, you left a note telling the
:18:53. > :19:01.country that you spent all of their money. You are punching harder, pack
:19:02. > :19:07.it in. None of what you are saying, you, Ukip, or the Liberal
:19:08. > :19:10.Democrats... Your industrial policy are fantasy figures that will drive
:19:11. > :19:14.us into the ground and it does not matter what you want, you cannot pay
:19:15. > :19:18.for it if you don't run the economy well. Time is up! The candidates
:19:19. > :19:26.have had their say, but it is about the voters like Natalie and is male,
:19:27. > :19:32.who are yet to make up their minds. It was interesting to hear their
:19:33. > :19:36.opinions. Seeing them in the ring individually fighting for their own
:19:37. > :19:40.policies and what they believe them, and what they think they can bring
:19:41. > :19:41.to the party, and why I should vote for them, it made it more
:19:42. > :19:52.accessible. It was certainly different! Let's
:19:53. > :19:58.talk about that debate. In Salford it has two notable absentees. How
:19:59. > :20:04.strange is it going to be, Martha? It will be odd with empty podiums.
:20:05. > :20:09.Without Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn. But, I think it is a wise
:20:10. > :20:13.decision by both Jeremy and Teresa. If you have ever seen PMQs, Prime
:20:14. > :20:21.Minister's Questions times, neither of them can think on their feet. It
:20:22. > :20:25.looks like... They have the structure but when you look at what
:20:26. > :20:32.they say there is no content. I think that neither of them do
:20:33. > :20:36.particularly well in debate. But, you know, that is what the voters
:20:37. > :20:43.want to see. That is what Theresa May has been criticised for on the
:20:44. > :20:46.campaign trail. She met one voter on the Trail and it went very badly.
:20:47. > :20:51.She certainly will get some flak on this but I doubt it is going to
:20:52. > :20:54.cause a dent in her polling. Because Jeremy Corbyn is in a more
:20:55. > :20:58.vulnerable position and has criticised Theresa May for not
:20:59. > :21:02.debating, he will probably get a bit more damage. We will see five people
:21:03. > :21:09.behind the podium, and not two others. What do you make of it? They
:21:10. > :21:14.need a good night. For a long time journalists said the error of two
:21:15. > :21:19.party politics is over. An opinion poll gives a combined vote share
:21:20. > :21:22.over 83% for Labour and the Conservatives.
:21:23. > :21:27.Ukip down that 2%, Lib Dems on 7%, the SNP are strong in Scotland but
:21:28. > :21:33.are in danger of losing seats to the Conservatives.
:21:34. > :21:37.It interesting that they can capture the imaginations of voters. They are
:21:38. > :21:38.all squeezed by the big two. They will not be tonight. We will keep an
:21:39. > :21:39.eye on that. It's not just the Conservatives who
:21:40. > :21:42.have launched their manifesto today. The Yorkshire Party have been
:21:43. > :21:44.launching theirs - in Wakefield. The party is calling for greater
:21:45. > :21:48.powers for Yorkshire. And a halt to the high-speed rail
:21:49. > :21:51.line, HS2 and their leader, Stewart Arnold thinks they could be
:21:52. > :22:03.the local alternative There is obviously something going
:22:04. > :22:06.on here. I like to think that we are part of the process of putting
:22:07. > :22:07.pressure on them. Let's see. I'm hopeful that we can make a
:22:08. > :22:10.breakthrough. Up to the North West of England now
:22:11. > :22:14.and there is one issue which has dominated the agenda for the last
:22:15. > :22:16.couple of years - fracking. Annabel Tiffin has spent
:22:17. > :22:19.the afternoon in Lytham St Annes finding out if fracking is a big
:22:20. > :22:25.election issue. Fracking, is that a big one for you?
:22:26. > :22:30.It does not matter to you. I think it is a good idea. Really? How would
:22:31. > :22:35.it influence, would it influence, how you vote? It won't influence me,
:22:36. > :22:40.I'm not going to vote. We all need this energy from somewhere, don't
:22:41. > :22:43.we? Ladies, hello. Sorry to interrupt, I know you are having
:22:44. > :22:51.your ice creams. Will this possibly influence your voting? Possibly. I
:22:52. > :22:56.don't really mind. The people do not want the fracking. The council don't
:22:57. > :23:00.want it. They've been to court and they just overall does and said it
:23:01. > :23:04.does not matter. We will carry on anyway. I think people will vote
:23:05. > :23:05.against the Conservatives in this instance because they are
:23:06. > :23:20.pro-fracking and are not listening. For a list of all of the candidates
:23:21. > :23:23.in your constituency, go to the website.
:23:24. > :23:28.Will we see different areas doing different things? You have different
:23:29. > :23:32.voting patterns but at the moment, the Conservatives are doing
:23:33. > :23:37.remarkably well everywhere. I think part of the problem for those with a
:23:38. > :23:41.regional agenda is that issue of Brexit, that is the defining one bit
:23:42. > :23:44.is edged out somewhat by the NHS. There is the argument that Theresa
:23:45. > :23:48.May will say put your country first, and I think it appeals to a more
:23:49. > :23:53.national view rather than a regional view. I think it will be quite hard
:23:54. > :23:58.for the smaller parties to achieve cuts in this election. Is it right,
:23:59. > :24:02.we would see too much of that? The Tories like to believe that people
:24:03. > :24:07.don't care so much about local issues. They ran the local election
:24:08. > :24:10.campaign a national one. Theresa May at the forefront and the Brexit
:24:11. > :24:14.message at the forefront, Labour like to believe it is local issues
:24:15. > :24:18.that matter and not the leadership. They are not doing very well at the
:24:19. > :24:22.moment. The Lib Dems have not really decided whether they are running a
:24:23. > :24:25.national anti-Brexit campaign or a local one. I think that they are
:24:26. > :24:32.muddled and that is where they are going wrong. She is not only the
:24:33. > :24:36.voice of the balls. Ali Price has been taking her election road show
:24:37. > :24:41.on a tour of the UK, asking voters to put one in the box to register
:24:42. > :24:42.their views. She has been asking people in Carlisle if the voting age
:24:43. > :25:02.should be reduced to 16? When I was 16, I knew that I wanted
:25:03. > :25:08.to vote, and why. Because old people are going to die. Do you think
:25:09. > :25:15.16-year-olds should have the vote? No, I don't. Why not? I don't know,
:25:16. > :25:17.when I was 16 I was not mature enough to do anything. You are
:25:18. > :25:21.knowledgeable enough at that age to know what is going on and have a say
:25:22. > :25:27.around the country and the world. I think it is fair. 18, how come? I've
:25:28. > :25:31.a 12-year-old daughter and I find it hard to imagine by the age of 16 she
:25:32. > :25:40.will be ready to make a decision like that! I'm from Scotland, I did
:25:41. > :25:44.polling there Q times and a lot of the younger ones are coming in with
:25:45. > :25:46.their parents now. It is encouraging to see younger ones and coming in
:25:47. > :26:05.voting. Where you interested in politics
:26:06. > :26:10.when you are 16? No, just boys! If they are allowed to do a lot of
:26:11. > :26:23.other things at the age of 16, why not vote? They are eligible to get
:26:24. > :26:29.married... We went to Gretna Green, actually! I think they mature a lot
:26:30. > :26:34.between the ages of 16 and 18, a lot. And between 18 and 21 even
:26:35. > :26:44.more! That is when you got the vote? Yes. Do 16-year-olds eat a lot of
:26:45. > :26:47.cheese? Yes, it is surprising what children do eat! Do you think that
:26:48. > :26:54.16-year-olds should have the vote? No. We shopped around for people's
:26:55. > :26:58.opinions here in the market, and it seems that if you are 16 going on 17
:26:59. > :27:02.and wanting a say in the general election, tough. People here think
:27:03. > :27:07.you need to be 18 to have the vote. Thank you Carlisle!
:27:08. > :27:16.Ali Price there. Their recent time for me to ask you what you were both
:27:17. > :27:20.like at the age of 16! Thanks very much to George Eaton and Martha
:27:21. > :27:22.Gill, that's it from the Election Wrap. More from the campaign trail
:27:23. > :27:37.again tomorrow night at 7:30pm. We have had some outbreaks of rain
:27:38. > :27:41.around today, but they have been pretty hit and miss with some areas
:27:42. > :27:46.seeing longer spells of sunshine. Now we have low pressure that has
:27:47. > :27:47.been moving in from the south. Bursts of rain in