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Tonight on BBC London News. goodbye from me and on BBC

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We're in St Albans - a Tory seat but being eyed up

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by Labour and the Lib Dems, hoping to seize on the

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I voted Ukip last time but decided to go with Theresa May this time.

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Brexit was a huge shock and we are still recovering. I hope something

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happens for all of us. But with a week to go

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it's not the only issue We'll chat to them and a political

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expert who'll help us Living beyond their means -

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the growing number of Londoners reliant on credit cards

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to supplement their income. Originally I got them just as a

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safety net cover a back-up in case I needed them but you find yourself

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going to the credit card more and more because you cannot afford to

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live here. And I am in King's Cross for the weather forecast this

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evening. I really am. It is a green oasis in the middle of urban London

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one of the many well we can connect to nature.

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Welcome to historic sent all burns on a beautiful evening. Over the

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past few weeks, I have been to Croydon, east London and tonight I

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am in Hertfordshire. It is estimated around a fifth of the people who

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live here commute into London. It is a Tory seat but it's one to Labour

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in 1997 who held it until 2005. It is worth pointing out this is an

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area that voted to remain in the EU by almost 63% putting them at odds

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with the local Tory MP who backed Brexit. Perhaps not surprising the

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Lib Dems who have never won the seat and whose vote collapsed here at the

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last general election have it on their target list. In these

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unpredictable political times, anything could happen. Yvonne Hall

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has been finding out what the candidates are offering and how

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people are feeling about the election.

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St Albans market, shoppers have been looking for good deals here for more

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than a thousand years. So, what do today's bargain hunters think of

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what is on offer from their candidates? I don't know who to vote

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for, I don't like any of them. I voted Ukip last time but decided to

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go with Theresa May this time. She best represents the voters. Brexit

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was a huge shock and we are still recovering from it. Let's hope

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something happens for all of us. For the past 12 years, Conservative and

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main has been MP of this historic and affluent commuter city and

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increased majority to more than 12,000. They have British meat in

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them? She's a staunch Brexit supporter, some accuse her of not

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representing the views of the six TT % of people here who voted to stay

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in the EU. People say you are out of touch with your constituents. If we

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did not honour the vote we should not have offered it but it was

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offered, no caveats about second referendums. The public have voted.

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A wonderful woman, always supporting the market, a brilliant person per

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the town. We love her very much. Her main policies are improving the

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infrastructure, including schools, housing and hospitals. Labour's Ceri

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pollard was MP here eight year before and Maine won in 2005 and she

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came second in 2015. His top policies are a second EU referendum,

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increasing house-building and a new teaching hospital. My promise is

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re-elected back in Parliament I will insist there is a referendum of

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whatever deal is brought back to the British people from Brussels that

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the British people finally decided, is this good enough or not. The

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Liberal Democrats came third in St Albans with a chop of 18% in their

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share of the vote. This time around they are fielding a much higher

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profile candidates, Daisy Cooper who came second in the race to be the

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parties national president so we're off to the local campaign

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headquarters to find out how Daisy keeper thinks she can now win the

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seat. Brexit changes everything at what we have seen both of the local

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election results when Lib Dems got 44% and conservatives got 30% and

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Labour will push down to 18% is people are to vote for the Lib Dems.

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The Lib Dems top priorities are a second EU referendum, increasing tax

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to fund the NHS and more spending on schools. Bacca St Albans market,

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enough rain to turn anywhere green. In 2015, the Greens came forth here

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with a 2% increasing votes. Their top policies are a second EU

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referendum, more environmental protection and a low carbon economy.

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It was very important to stand up for the pure green principles, the

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idea of putting sustainability at the core of your policies is not

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something that other parties do. At St Albans clocktower a message

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voters would no doubt like all the candidates to take on board.

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And you should be able to see the full list of candidates standing in

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St Albans on your screen. Plenty more information on the BBC election

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website. I am delighted to say I am joined by Tony Travis from LSE.

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There is a much this man does not know about politics in London so it

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is lovely to have you here because with a week to go you help us

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clarify any unanswered questions that our panel here have this

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evening. Welcome to all of you. Lisa McCann, a mum of two, planning to

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vote Labour. Sylvia, an accountant and business advisory plans to vote

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Conservative. And Gary a teacher at independent school, a former

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Blairite who plans to vote Lib Dem. And Tony Travis here who will

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provide clarity and unanswered questions. Do you feel at this stage

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you are clear about what the parties are offering? I am clear about the

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reasons the things I'm voting on but I think it is highly crass of a

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Conservative government to call the selection and then dole out a

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manifesto with no funding and the costings to it. I think that is

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unacceptable. It is not the only manifesto that has been criticised.

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The Institute for Fiscal Studies, independent of parties have looked

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at both Labour and Conservative manifestos and concluded there are

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gaps, you would have to vote of both parties without fully knowing,

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Labour did have a list of costings but would there be enough tax from

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the sources suggested to fund it, the Conservatives, few details but

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stem -- some uncosted like adult social care. You mentioned tax

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because that is one issue that was concerning you, the effect on

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businesses and businesses in general. I work with a lot of

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businesses and for me I can see it is important to business to have

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some clarity and stability and we need that so absolutely the spending

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cuts and the other things we have talked about but fundamentally we

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need business to make money to collect taxes and nobody can do

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anything. It is about which one of those alternatives will give us the

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stability business needs. What is interesting is you look at

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commentators on business, they are worried there was a slight

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anti-business tone to a number of the manifestos that isn't just label

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Liberal Democrats but also the Conservatives arguably and what we

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are getting here is a sort of backwash from a number of years of

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perceived increase in inequality, business not paying taxes and

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perhaps the rich not paying and that is buried inside a complex new

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political environment with Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn and the Lib

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Dems as well or fighting for this territory about how to convince the

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electorate that theirs is the manifesto that will really attract

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voters. But it is just today we have managed to reach the dizzying

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heights of sharing the bottom place of the G-7 with Italy for a

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languishing economy, national debt. It is a quarter on quarter measure

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and things do change quite a lot from one quarter to another and it

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is true in this quarter but in the previous quarter Britain was doing

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quite well so we have to wait a bit, we need a years figures. Gary, you

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are concerned about Brexit and the impact on jobs in terms of

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immigration. Thousands and thousands of people going to London and the

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model of Brexit Theresa May has chosen, leaving the customs union

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and the single market is the riskiest of all the options

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available and is taking a risk therefore with everybody's jobs and

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the revenues on which the jobs rely. The difficulty whoever wins the

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election, the Lib Dems say they would not go into coalition but

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whichever party it was is they do not fully know what the other side

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will be saying in the negotiations so we will leave the EU, that is

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what the vote was, it seems that will happen so the question now is

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which of the parties is most likely to come out with the best deal and

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two can convince the electorate of that. London is a city relies

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heavily on immigration and we know where they stand on immigration, is

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that an issue? The arbitrary cap which Theresa May has decided to

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have on migration to win votes makes no economic sense whatsoever. And it

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is interesting we are united as remain although divided. In fairness

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to the government, there is no doubt the Brexit vote in part and the

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polling shows it was about immigration and the issue of how the

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government can come up with a policy that is convincing to people at the

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end of this that makes sense and is fair will be taxing, the economy

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needs migration but how the migration is controlled and what the

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government, what deals they can do is all up for grabs in the election.

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Do we know where we stand on passporting rights which is an issue

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for London and something the mayor spoke about? That is about the city

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of London and the relationship with the rest of the EU after Brexit and

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the answer is we do not know yet. One of the things about the election

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is none of the parties are giving a detailed picture about what they

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would negotiate for and how. Brexit has changed it for this election,

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that is why it is so fiercely fought, and I think it is reasonable

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to say the isn't a lot of detail because it is spurious inaccuracy

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and some things that are clear we can talk about and it is about

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having a strong leader to take us through whatever will come. Is that

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because we do not have the detail or we are not being told that detail?

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The details are not there. It is new territory for all of us. The

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difficulty any government would have whatever party is that it is a

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negotiation and until the negotiation starts in rooms late at

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night and everybody will be saying this and doing something else, it is

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hard for the parties to lay out a position and if they lay out a

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position to give the other side a sense of the way the government will

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negotiate. Given the Conservative party brought us to this issue, you

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would have thought they would have been able to bring more input into

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the after affects of such referendum. Ultimately, the future

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of jobs in London in the south-east hangs on the outcome of this Brexit

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deal. We as voters deserve to know more before we go to the ballot box

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about what the options are going to be, more than we are being told,

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equally one of the reason for voting Lib Dem is at the end of the deal I

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want a say on it because I do not trust the politicians whoever they

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are to come up with the best deal for everybody. And that is what the

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Lib Dems are offering. We will leave it there for now. Thank you for

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joining us. Please relax, enjoy a drink and mull over some of what has

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been said and take advantage of Tony's huge brain.

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Well we've been hearing how this is one of the Lib Dems' target seats.

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Their leader Tim Farron told our political editor

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Tim Donovan that their membership has doubled in two years

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and they are going to be seen as a genuine alternative to Tories

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If you want to say no to Theresa May's dementia tax, her taking away

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free school meals from children and two in three headteachers sacking

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one teacher in seven weeks' time because of budget cuts in schools,

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the one where you can effect that is by voting Liberal Democrat. The

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Liberal Democrats, as we all know, in London especially have a great

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chance of making those games and sending the message to Theresa May,

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do not take us are granted. Actually, you underestimated their

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momentum and how good the Labour campaign might be and that is why

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you are going to be squeezed. Labour voters across the capital in

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south-west London are voting for the Liberal Democrats and moving to us

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to defeat the Conservatives. Find me a seat in London where Labour think

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they have a chance of gaining a seat at all. There is an one. Many Labour

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MPs are believing you'll be beaten by conservative. Tim Farron speaking

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to us earlier. The Lib Dems are sounding optimistic there, exactly

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are week today Londoners will cast their vote, let's get the thoughts

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of a man who has been mulling over a lot of things, Karl Mercer. A poll

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out today does suggest how does my vote. Away from St Albans which is a

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very different place to London, a different political beast. Labour

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closing in the polls across the nation the difference between three

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to 15 points behind the Tories, in London suggesting Labour are 17

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points ahead of the Conservatives on 50% of the vote the Tories on 33%

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backing up a similar poll Queen Mary University, London did a week ago

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which had similar scores so it tells you how different London is the rest

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of the country. Also interestingly, Londoners saying Jeremy Corbyn would

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be a better prime minister than Theresa May. In March they did a

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similar poll, Labour was three points ahead now 17 points ahead, a

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whole different ball game. They're talking Labour winning seats in

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London but remember there was with the caveat with polls, it is just a

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poll. Always a health warning. Thank you very much. From us here in St

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Albans on a lovely evening, I will hand you to Louisa Preston for the

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rest of the days news in the studio. London has been named the credit

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card capital of the UK - with Londoners using plastic simply

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to cover the cost of A new report says young people

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who rent are most at risk of falling Holidays, new cars,

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big-ticket purchases, London life is expensive nowadays,

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and more and more of us are turning to credit cards,

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sometimes just to make ends meet. Billy has a good job which pays

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well, but his living costs, rent, travel, bills,

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food, all add up. He now has several thousand

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pounds on credit cards. Originally I got them

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just as a safety net, just as a back-up in case I needed

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them for anything. But, you just find yourself going

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to your credit card more and more, because you just can't afford

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to live here. It's so expensive,

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and rent is crazy. So I find myself, I could be running

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out of money by the end of the week, and I'm turning to my credit

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card every week. Billy's part of a new generation

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of "Yerns", young earning renting non-savers, who have pushed London

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to the top of the country's Britain has a combined

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?66.7 billion on credit cards, Some of it's aspirational,

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some of it reflects what's We are seeing record high

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rents, stagnating wages, But of course, if someone

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is building up large amounts of unsecured credit,

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that might not be sustainable, and they could be storing up

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problems for the future. One charity offering debt advice of

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the average person coming to them has ?8,000 on credit cards, they

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believe the companies themselves should do more. We think they could

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increase the very low minimum repayment levels and also within

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credit card companies should do more about lending to people in an

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affordable way Sidcup should only be able to borrow over a reasonable

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period preventing short-term credit card borrowing becoming long-term

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debt. The UK cards Association said we are committed to helping a

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minority of people who struggle but the sheer number apparently in

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persistent debt relying on plastic just to get by is fuelling concerns

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are credit culture could spiral out of control.

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An unqualified nanny from North London has been found

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guilty of killing a baby in her care.

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The Old Bailey heard Viktoria Tautz lost her temper and violently shook

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She claimed they'd been playing a game at the flat in Haringey,

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It's often referred to as the UK's second City, but Birmingham hopes it

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will become first choice for Londoners looking to relocate

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And with plans for a new high speed rail link, business leaders

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in the west Midlands say the city will soon become as accessible

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Does London face a tough new competitor? The fact 1000 jobs will

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soon move away from Canary Wharf may suggest yes. This is the new HSBC

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building, they are moving jobs up to Birmingham. A ?200 million

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investment and it will be the banks new UK head office. Not

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surprisingly, Birmingham thinks this is a bit of a coup. They are

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encouraging both lenders and their global workforce from around the

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world to move here as much as possible. Birmingham is saying to

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London businesses, we have changed, from how you might remember us. The

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Bullring has been a shopping centre for a hundred years. There is an

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investment boom and the game changer for the city and perhaps the London

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maybe this. Once HS2 is built, you will be up to get the capital city

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within 46 minutes. That is a shorter length of time the going from one of

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the outer zones on the London Underground into the city centre.

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This new office space has just opened in Birmingham employing 250

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people in software services but the same company has cut its space in

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London. When you think about the square of prime real estate in

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London, it is 50% more expensive than in Birmingham. Lucy is a new

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graduate employee but she chose not to start her career in London. The

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rent in London is double the price so it is ?800 whereas rent in

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Birmingham can start at ?400. Jonathan is an economist to lift in

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Dulwich ten years. But now he has moved. Life is easier, less hectic,

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easy to do the things you want to do in life, find a house, find a

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school. And John who manages this bar used to live in Finsbury Park.

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He left London a year ago and doesn't miss it. I found it much too

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hectic, even if I could afford to live there, I let the pace of life

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in Birmingham and the people and I guess the world is not all about

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London. London is not losing out to other cities yet, we do not see that

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as a key problem, there is room for everyone to grow. But for some

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Birmingham does offer a better life. And soon we may know if others are

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following. The Sundance Film Festival

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opens today in London, celebrating the world of independent

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cinema with feature films and documentaries screened

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at the Picturehouse in Piccadilly The festival is going

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ahead despite several events and red carpet premieres

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having been cancelled over security fears,

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following the recent Let's get a check on the weather

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with Wendy who is at Camley Street Natural Park in King's

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Cross. It has been glorious. Yes, this is

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where you need to come to enjoy it, one of the green places, a park that

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is looked after by the wildlife trust. They have done a poll

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suggesting 87% of Londoners loves nature but do not get enough of it.

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They have issued a challenge, 30 days wild challenge where each day

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this month you connect with nature, see what you can see and this is no

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better place, a green oasis in an urban and changing part of London

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and no better time to do it. This is the first day of the summer months

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and for the rest of this week it is going to be very warm with

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increasing humidity which may give way to some thundery showers

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throughout the day tomorrow. No such problem, beautiful sunshine at the

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moment and nice and warm. As we go through the night, it will stay that

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way, lots of clear skies and temperatures holding in the high

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teens level across London, only dipping to 15 degrees for a time at

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dawn. A warm start of the day tomorrow, some searing sunshine

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through the morning and light winds, the humidity building, temperatures

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building so 25, 20 6 degrees by the afternoon and then a shower was. Not

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for everyone but where you get caught in them you will know about

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it. The Met office has a weather warning for tomorrow afternoon for

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torrential downpours causing difficult driving conditions,

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localised surface water flooding and a bit of hail from some of the

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showers and lightning as well. The idea is that sweeps through

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overnight into the weekend leaving it fresher, a few showers around

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lingering into Saturday morning but there will be some dry, fine weather

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and temperatures around average for the time of year on Saturday and

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Sunday. On the outlook, I rather unsubtle theme into the start of the

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working week, some showers around heavier ones on Tuesday as well. In

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amongst all of that, fresher and less settled weather, there will be

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some weather to enjoy, places like this, lenders are green city, plenty

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of nature wherever you look for it. -- London is a green city.

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And with a week to go before the election Labour

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and the Conservatives are focusing on Brexit.

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Jeremy Corbyn says a Tory Brexit will lead to a jobs meltdown,

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but Theresa May says it offers a future of new opportunities.

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I'll be back later during the ten o'clock news, but for now

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from everyone on the team have a lovely evening.

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This election, Ukip has made five key pledges to you.

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We all know this election is about Brexit and

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how the United Kingdom moves forward in a way that respects

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the momentous decision last year, and how we as a nation can take

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advantage of the golden opportunity that Brexit has given us.

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