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• May puts Manchester bombing at heart of election with attack on Corbyn

  26-05-2017 23:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Prime minister targets Labour over national security in row over role of foreign policy in fostering terror as polls show Tory lead is decliningTheresa May has launched an extraordinary attack on Jeremy Corbyn, accusing him of saying Britain is to blame for the Manchester Arena bombing in a war of words that places the atrocity at the heart of the election campaign.The prime minister used a press conference at the end of her first G7 summit to resume her election campaign by directly targeting t
  
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• Corbyn grilled on Trident, IRA and Nato – video

  26-05-2017 22:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Jeremy Corbyn declines to say if he personally supports the renewal of Trident in an interview with BBC’s Andrew Neil on Friday. Corbyn confirms he doesn’t support IRA and does support NatoWatch the full interview on the BBC websiteCorbyn refuses to back Trident despite Labour manifesto commitment
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• General election: Jeremy Corbyn interviewed by Andrew Neil – as it happened

  26-05-2017 22:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Labour leader put under pressure about the IRA and his comments on the Manchester attack
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  Corbyn’s terror speech - AnalysisCorbyn’s interview with Andrew Neil - Verdict from Twitter commentariatCorbyn’s interview - Summary and analysis 8.22pm BSTDon’t turn up for an interview with Andrew Neil expecting a neutral encounter, soft questions that will play to your strengths as well as hard ones that expose y
  
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• UK Election Countdown: Polly wobbles

  26-05-2017 21:40
  13 days to go: Tories focus on Corbyn as Labour narrows gap
  
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• UK Election Countdown: Polley wobbles

  26-05-2017 21:40
  13 days to go: Tories focus on Corbyn as Labour narrows gap
  
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• Martin Rowson on the cost of UK foreign policy – cartoon

  26-05-2017 21:31 via theguardian.com
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Denies Taking Part In Silence To Honour IRA Terrorists

  26-05-2017 21:00
  
  Andrew Neil presses Jeremy Corbyn on his position on the IRAhttps://t.co/eyDZvcXlka #BBCElection #GE2017 pic.twitter.com/tnjiMw0Nsq— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) May 26, 2017
  Jeremy Corbyn has denied he took part in a silence to honour dead IRA terrorists.
  The Labour leader was quizzed by the BBC’s Andrew Neil in a special election interview on his alleged support for the IRA and participation in events to honour dead republican fighterss
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• It’s a delusion to think that the terror attacks are just about foreign policy | Jonathan Freedland

  26-05-2017 20:49 via theguardian.com
  
  When it comes to violent jihadism, the motives are many – American and British military intervention is just one of themFor most people, in most places, something like normality resumes. This weekend Britons might be planning a barbecue, watching the FA Cup Final or just hoping to soak up some sun. In Manchester, in a show of almost comic defiance, the Great CityGames are going ahead, so that today, Deansgate will be converted into a sprint track and there’ll be pole vaulting in Albe
  
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• Manchester attack: 'Large part' of terror network has now been arrested, police say – live

  26-05-2017 20:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Police arrest man in Moss Side overnight; eight now in custodyKatie Hopkins leaves LBC radio show after ‘final solution’ tweetUK police end suspension of intelligence sharing with USAll 22 victims of Manchester Arena bombing named
  Jeremy Corbyn: ‘war on terror is simply not working’ 7.42pm BSTFesl Reza Khan, a council worker who helped to organise a Muslim vigil in Manchester’s St Ann’s Square on Friday night, addressed part of his speech to the non-Muslims pr
  
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• General election: Jeremy Corbyn interviewed by Andrew Neil - politics live

  26-05-2017 20:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Labour leader put under pressure about the IRA and his comments on the Manchester attack
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  Corbyn’s terror speech - Analysis 7.40pm BSTThis is what some political journalists and commentators are saying about the interview on Twitter. The general consensus is that he came over pretty well, with quite a few people thinking he was better than Theresa May when she faced Andrew Neil on Monday.I have no time for Corbyn but he w
  
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• We need a war on conflict, not terror | Deborah Orr

  26-05-2017 20:30 via theguardian.com
  
  A recognition that division has scarred our democracy for too long would be a fitting legacy to the victims of ManchesterWhat tribute to the people killed in Manchester would be fitting? How could we, as individuals, be part of such a tribute? Maybe a start could be made by stating as simply as possible the cause of that attack. The cause is political conflict, at its most global and ideologically crazed. At its least amenable to reason. At its ugliest and most crude. At its wildest and most rut
  
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• Theresa May on election offensive after dash back from G7

  26-05-2017 20:16
  PM accuses Corbyn of making excuses for terror attack as Tory lead slips
  
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• Corbyn refuses to back Trident but says he will respect Labour position

  26-05-2017 20:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Party leader says renewal of nuclear deterrent would go ahead if party wins election but there would be a reviewJeremy Corbyn has declined to say he is in favour of keeping Trident, despite a commitment to renewing the nuclear deterrent in the Labour manifesto.In an interview with Andrew Neil to be broadcast on the BBC at 7pm on Friday, Corbyn said he respected the party’s decision to commit to the weapons system, but there would be a defence review to “look at the role of nuclear we
  
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• Corbyn’s rise in polls gives opponents pause for thought

  26-05-2017 19:58
  Labour leader’s status as rank outsider has worked to his advantage
  
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• May accuses Corbyn of saying terror attacks are UK's fault – video

  26-05-2017 19:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Theresa May accuses Jeremy Corbyn of saying that terror attacks in the UK is the country’s own fault in the aftermath of the Manchester attack. Speaking at the G7 summit in Sicily on Friday, she says ‘there can be no excuse for what happened’General election: live updatesManchester attack: live updatesContinue reading...
  
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• The Guardian view on the resumed election campaign: there’s a message in the poll wobble | Editorial

  26-05-2017 19:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Theresa May planned to get elected on the strength of her leadership alone. Narrower poll leads suggest voters want a clearer messageIt is never wise for political parties to take votes for granted. This is a mistake that can be made over the long term, as Labour learned in Scotland, presuming a tribal allegiance that decayed. And it is a mistake that can be made over the short period of an election race – as the Conservatives risk doing with a campaign based on little more than the a
  
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• The financial crisis lives on in UK courtrooms

  26-05-2017 19:34
  The civil suit against RBS is about accountability as well as money
  
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• General Election: Does Jeremy Corbyn back his own party's Trident stance?

  26-05-2017 19:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Renewing nuclear weapons is in Labour's manifesto, but their leader will not say he supports it.
  
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• May attempts to steady campaign wobbles

  26-05-2017 18:32
  PM faces Labour resurgence and fallout from social care U-turn
  
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• Corbyn marks out clear dividing lines on defence

  26-05-2017 18:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Labour leader has made a significant intervention on foreign policy and terrorism, says Iain Watson.
  
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• Education cuts are a false economy – please, Theresa May, reconsider | Kester Brewin

  26-05-2017 18:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Every pound spent on schoolchildren saves money in healthcare, welfare and prisons. Blair and Cameron got it, but the current PM does notLast week my son brought home a letter from the head of his comprehensive, outlining the curriculum reorganisation it is pushing through because the school has run out of money. Administration staff have already been made redundant, and teaching posts are under threat. If the current government is re-elected the funding squeeze will continue, the Institute for
  
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• Solar outshines nuclear as spring sun boosts UK output

  26-05-2017 18:06
  Renewable power generation tops 40% on Friday, overtaking gas
  
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• G7 leaders agree steps to tackle terrorism after Manchester bombing

  26-05-2017 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Prime minister called on world leaders to help prosecute fighters returning from Middle EastWorld leaders have agreed new measures to tackle terrorism including plans to prosecute western extremists who fight in foreign countries after Theresa May demanded more co-operation after the Manchester bombing.In a joint statement on Friday evening, G7 leaders said they “condemn in the strongest possible terms terrorism in all its forms” as they moved to crack down on the financing and proli
  
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• It’s a snap election. But let’s not make snap decisions on social care | Faiza Shaheen

  26-05-2017 17:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Britain is just days away from making some massive choices. Theresa May’s ‘dementia tax’ is just one area she must be stopped from glossing overAfter the Manchester attack it is only natural that the public will be looking to political parties to set out how they will deal with terrorist threats and radicalisation.However, when we cast our ballots on 8 June, most of us will be thinking of the vast array of challenges we will face over the next five years. From the NHS and schoo
  
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• Cap fund management fees to free up cash for social care

  26-05-2017 17:52
  In a dysfunctional market the government can impose lower charges for consumers
  
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• General election 2017: Social care U-turn, Manchester and UKIP launch

  26-05-2017 17:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jo Coburn reflects on a week when election campaigning was suspended after the Manchester attack.
  
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• In a difficult week, the Green party shows that all you need is love | John Crace

  26-05-2017 17:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Speaking about the EU, Caroline Lucas was the first leader to say the word love in this election campaign – I could vote for thatI almost didn’t make it to the launch of the Green party manifesto because, after negotiating a futuristic lift that seemed to decide my destination for me, I was tipped out on to the fourth floor of a swanky Soho office building and expected to negotiate a narrow walkway with a 50ft (15 metre) drop on either side. Not good for someone who suffers from vert
  
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• Your guide to how the IFS dismantled the two parties' plans

  26-05-2017 16:52
  
  The IFS said that Labour had got its sums wrong on tax, while the Tory public pay cap is causing difficulties
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn takes security risk and confounds critics | John Crace

  26-05-2017 16:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Labour leader’s speech on security may not convince doubters he could be PM but it wasn’t quite enough to disqualify himGeneral election – live updates Two weeks ago, when the Supreme Leader informed the country there was a realistic chance of Jeremy Corbyn becoming prime minister, everyone dismissed the idea as scaremongering. It now turns out she was acting on insider information.Only she knew just how mediocre she really was and that her mediocrity would be inevitably found
  
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• Tories and Labour not being honest with voters: IFS

  26-05-2017 16:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Institute for Fiscal Studies says the Conservatives and Labour should own up on economic plans.
  
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• US secretary of state flies to Britain to say sorry for Manchester leaks

  26-05-2017 16:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Rex Tillerson’s unprecedented public apology in person shows seriousness of rift over intelligence sharingThe US secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, has flown to the UK to deliver in person an apology for leaks by US officials of details of the police investigation into the Manchester bombing.
  Tillerson, who met the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, said: “We take full responsibility for that and we obviously regret that that happened. With respect to the release of information inappr
  
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• Reality Check: Why does the Prevent strategy divide opinion?

  26-05-2017 16:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The government says the Prevent initiative stops radicalisation. Why do many disagree?
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: the war on terror is simply not working

  26-05-2017 15:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Sir Michael Fallon and Boris Johnson criticise Labour leader’s comments that UK needs ‘smarter way’ to reduce terror threatGeneral election – live updates
  The sight of the army on Britain’s streets after the Manchester suicide bomb attack is a clear sign that the UK’s foreign policy and approach to fighting terrorism is not working, Jeremy Corbyn has said.The Labour leader said there must be more money for law enforcement, as he suggested Britain’s inter
  
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• Week in Review: A triumph over hate

  26-05-2017 15:11
  
  The people of Manchester behaved in a way that was simultaneously extraordinary and yet utterly unsurprising
  
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• Theresa May wants to tackle online extremism. Here’s how to do it | Charles Arthur

  26-05-2017 15:08 via theguardian.com
  
  After the Manchester attack, there are fresh calls for regulation of Facebook and Google. But what’s needed, specifically, is a rethink of profit-seeking algorithmsSomething must be done. Particularly, something must be done about Facebook and YouTube (and to a lesser extent Twitter). That has become the reflexive rallying cry of UK ministers whenever there is a terrorist attack, or when one is thwarted. Theresa May will tell G7 leaders as much at a summit in Sicily today.On the same day,
  
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• IFS: Tories And Labour Not Being Honest About Election Manifesto Plans

  26-05-2017 15:01
  
  Neither Labour nor the Conservatives are properly spelling out the consequences of their economic plans, experts say.
  The Institute for Fiscal Studies analysed both parties’ manifestos in detail and said neither set out ‘an honest set of choices’ to voters ahead of next month’s election.
  Among the key findings were: 
  - Labour’s spending plan would see the biggest investment in services since the 1970s - but the party has overestimated its £49 billion of t
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: 'War on terror is simply not working' – video

  26-05-2017 14:55 via theguardian.com
  
  In the wake of the Manchester Arena attack, the Labour leader says ‘we must be brave enough to admit that the war on terror is not working’. Starting the first day of campaigning since the attack, Jeremy Corbyn also links acts of extremism with British foreign policyJeremy Corbyn: the war on terror is simply not workingContinue reading...
  
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• UK election: Dissecting Labour’s advance in the polls 

  26-05-2017 14:49
  Theory that campaigns do not matter in outcome of a vote will be tested to the limit
  
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• Dissecting Labour’s advance in the polls 

  26-05-2017 14:49
  Theory that campaigns do not matter in outcome of a vote will be tested to the limit
  
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• Now is the time for a clear and ambitious vision on education

  26-05-2017 14:48 via theguardian.com
  
  The national day of action by parents and children should be a wake-up call to politicians. We need better funding and evidence-based policiesIt feels uncomfortable to be writing about education and the general election so soon after the appalling events in Manchester. Too many people in too many places will have seen the axis of their world shift. Yet the date of the election moves ever closer, and with it some big decisions about the shape of our education system – what it will look like
  
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• In Glasgow East, the election is between Sturgeon and May

  26-05-2017 14:38 via theguardian.com
  
  In the run-up to the general election, six Guardian reporters are writing from constituencies across the UK to find out what matters in your area. In our third visit to Glasgow East, Lisa O’Carroll observes a focus group who appear to find consensus on one point: in Scotland, it’s SNP v Tories. Photographs by Murdo MacLeodThe air is heavy with the smell of digestive biscuits wafting from the nearby McVities factory as six undecided voters gather in a small hotel in Tollcross, Glasgow
  
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• IFS to voters: you have a choice between the 'undeliverable' or 'unworkable'

  26-05-2017 14:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Respected thinktank says neither Conservatives nor Labour are being entirely honest about how they will fund and deliver their different visions for the UKA plague on both your houses. That, put simply, is the considered view of the Institute for Fiscal Studies on the tax and spending pledges made by the Conservative and Labour parties in their election manifestos.There was, the IFS noted, a real choice for voters on 8 June, marking quite a change from recent elections. But it was a choice betwe
  
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• May presses Macron on Brexit trade talks

  26-05-2017 14:31
  UK premier uses first meeting with French president to push for parallel negotiations
  
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• Labour poll rise suggests Manchester attack has not boosted Tories | Alan Travis

  26-05-2017 14:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Poll with Conservatives five points ahead of Labour is first since bombing, but shows other factors such as manifestos are at playGeneral election: live updatesThe narrowing of the Conservative lead over Labour to five points in the first opinion poll since the Manchester suicide bombing on Monday punctures the widespread political assumption that the attack would improve the Tories’ standing.The Times/YouGov poll putting the Conservatives on 43% and Labour on 38% was based on interviews c
  
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• Searching for Brexit consensus in the City of London

  26-05-2017 14:23
  Should it turn to US, China and India, offshore centres or fall back on Commonwealth?
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn Sends Message To Troops And Urges Policy Reform As Election Campaign Resumes

  26-05-2017 13:23
  
  Jeremy Corbyn directly addressed troops deployed on the streets in the wake of the Manchester terror attack in his first speech after the resumption of election campaigning.
  The Labour leader, while promising a change in home and foreign policy to tackle ‘the causes of terrorism’, promised military personnel they would only be deployed when there was ‘a clear need’.
  “I would like to take a moment to speak to our soldiers on the streets of Britain,” he told jou
  
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• Tackling terrorism – Politics Weekly podcast

  26-05-2017 13:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Heather Stewart is joined by the Guardian’s home affairs editor Alan Travis to discuss the government’s response to the Manchester attack and how the main parties differ in their approach to tackling terrorism. Plus: Larry Elliott and Stephen King on the retreat of globalisationBritain’s terrorism threat level was raised to critical after the attack in Manchester this week and soldiers were placed under the command of police on Britain’s streets. With less than two weeks
  
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• Katie Hopkins leaves LBC radio after calling for ‘final solution’

  26-05-2017 13:00
  Broadcaster’s departure follows tweet made in wake of Manchester bomb attack
  
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• Labour Suspends Esher And Walton Vice Chairman Daniel Ewen After Manchester Bombing Comments

  26-05-2017 12:37
  
  Labour has suspended one of its vice chairmen in Surrey after he suggested that the government would be willing to “blow up their own people” to secure power.
  Daniel Ewen’s comments come in the wake of the Manchester bombing, which led to the deaths of 22 people after a terrorist detonated an explosive device as crowds left an Ariana Grande concert on Monday.
  The vice chair in Esher and Walton wrote on Facebook: “I would not put it past our establishment, our rightwing go
  
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• Andrew Neil Praised For Message To Politicians Following Manchester Bombing

  26-05-2017 12:16
  
  Andrew Neil has been praised for his “absolutely spot on” response after calling on politicians to be “mature” as they return to campaigning following the Manchester bombing.
  The BBC This Week presenter garnered much praise for his blistering monologue following the Westminster attack earlier this year, as well as his attack on the Paris terrorists in 2015.
  But he said on Thursday night that he would not be repeating those comments, though “they apply with equal for
  
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