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| General election: reaction to Question Time leaders special – live news | General election: reaction to Question Time leaders special – live news |
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| Fallout from Friday night’s programme in which Jeremy Corbyn said he was ‘neutral’ on Brexit as Boris Johnson was attacked on trust | Fallout from Friday night’s programme in which Jeremy Corbyn said he was ‘neutral’ on Brexit as Boris Johnson was attacked on trust |
| Here’s a bit more information about what we have to look forward to today. | |
| The Conservatives are announcing a £1.6bn fund to find a cure for dementia. Boris Johnson said the investment would double current funding levels and that it would set Britain’s finest scientists to work on a “dementia moonshot”. | |
| Labour is launching its youth manifesto. The document called The Future is Ours will commit the party to giving 16-year-olds the right to vote, and to investing an additional £250m to build up to 500 new youth centres. | |
| Jeremy Corbyn is visiting an Amazon depot in Yorkshire where he will vow to tackle the “tax and wage cheat culture” of multinational companies who “rip off” workers. | |
| Liberal Democrat Leader Jo Swinson will be in west London focusing on creative and arts subjects in schools, which she said should have “the same footing as the rest of the curriculum”. | |
| Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage will be on a walkabout in Hartlepool, where party chairman Richard Tice is a candidate. | |
| I’ll bring you more information as I get it. | |
| Labour’s shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, has responded to yesterday’s vote on GP home visits at the BMA conference yesterday. | Labour’s shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, has responded to yesterday’s vote on GP home visits at the BMA conference yesterday. |
| Here’s a round up of today’s front pages, with Corbyn’s “neutral” Brexit stance dominating many. | Here’s a round up of today’s front pages, with Corbyn’s “neutral” Brexit stance dominating many. |
| More on the health secretary’s comments on this morning’s Today programme. | More on the health secretary’s comments on this morning’s Today programme. |
| Delegates representing GPs across England at a British Medical Association conference on Friday voted to try to remove the duty in their standard contracts to carry out home visits, complaining that they were wasting time driving around the country. However, speaking on Saturday morning, Matt Hancock said the idea was a “complete non-starter” and that he was firmly opposed to the plan. | Delegates representing GPs across England at a British Medical Association conference on Friday voted to try to remove the duty in their standard contracts to carry out home visits, complaining that they were wasting time driving around the country. However, speaking on Saturday morning, Matt Hancock said the idea was a “complete non-starter” and that he was firmly opposed to the plan. |
| You can read the full story here: | You can read the full story here: |
| Good morning and welcome to politics live, the morning after the special BBC Question Time programme in which Jeremy Corbyn announced he would remain neutral in a second Brexit referendum. | Good morning and welcome to politics live, the morning after the special BBC Question Time programme in which Jeremy Corbyn announced he would remain neutral in a second Brexit referendum. |
| The Labour leader was quizzed by a live studio audience in Sheffield, followed by the SNP’s leader Nicola Sturgeon, the Lib Dem Jo Swinson and, finally, the prime minister, Boris Johnson. | The Labour leader was quizzed by a live studio audience in Sheffield, followed by the SNP’s leader Nicola Sturgeon, the Lib Dem Jo Swinson and, finally, the prime minister, Boris Johnson. |
| The audience pulled no punches, attacking Swinson over her record in the coalition and her party’s revoke article 50 policy; challenging Boris Johnson over his trustworthiness and previous racist statements; confronting Corbyn over antisemitism in his party and his renationalisation plans; and pushing Sturgeon to confirm that she could support a Corbyn government in exchange for a Scottish independence referendum. | The audience pulled no punches, attacking Swinson over her record in the coalition and her party’s revoke article 50 policy; challenging Boris Johnson over his trustworthiness and previous racist statements; confronting Corbyn over antisemitism in his party and his renationalisation plans; and pushing Sturgeon to confirm that she could support a Corbyn government in exchange for a Scottish independence referendum. |
| You can read full write-up from the Guardian’s political editor Heather Stewart here. Some colour from the spin room in Sheffield – where the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, and shadow transport secretary, Andy McDonald, squared up to each other over racism in their parties – from me here. And you can watch some video highlights here: | You can read full write-up from the Guardian’s political editor Heather Stewart here. Some colour from the spin room in Sheffield – where the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, and shadow transport secretary, Andy McDonald, squared up to each other over racism in their parties – from me here. And you can watch some video highlights here: |
| The health secretary, Matt Hancock, has been on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme ruling out scrapping home visits by GPs, despite complaints from doctors that they are too over-stretched to deliver the service. I’ll bring you more on that shortly. | The health secretary, Matt Hancock, has been on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme ruling out scrapping home visits by GPs, despite complaints from doctors that they are too over-stretched to deliver the service. I’ll bring you more on that shortly. |
| I’m Frances Perraudin and I’ll be guiding you through all of today’s political developments. | I’m Frances Perraudin and I’ll be guiding you through all of today’s political developments. |