Does that mean we can stop worrying about the deficit . The parties are not saying much about money at the moment. But taxes, spending and borrowing are what governments do. Tonight, well ask if election promises on tax and spending can really be painlessly paid for. Also tonight, the 15 year old Anorexia Sufferer who took her own life after being discharged from Mental Health care against her parents wishes. Well hear from the writer emma woolf, who suffered from the illness for ten years. What can be done about anorexia . And Cornelia Parker has been appointed the official Election Artist. Whats caught her cultured eye so far . You do like a dimpled seat. I hope i am not fixated on bottoms. Hello. However hard the parties may try to control election campaigns, they are inevitably punctuated by unpredictable events. Those prescott punch moments. Weve not had anything quite like that yet, but labour today had its most awkward moment of the campaign so far. By far. A big announcement on
And fiona bruce will be here with a round up of the day before the news. But first, its time for newswatch. Hello, welcome to newswatch with me, Paddy Oconnell standing inforsamira. Coming up diane abbott got her maths in a muddle but did bbc news get their sums wrong too and make too muchf it . And Madeline Mccann is a tragic case, but is the bbc obsessed with it . Brexit was always going to loom large over this Election Campaign and this week, it took centre stage. The war of words started on monday. Theresa may describes the reports of a fractious dinner with her and urban the European Union as brussels gossip. She was reporting to use the kinds of sharp disagreements withjuncker over how quickly a deal could be done. Maxine edmonds was one of the number of viewers are surprised at the prominence being given to a second hand anonymous briefing in german. Writing Rob Cattle Agreed but was this just gossip . On tuesday, the bbcs Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg try to nail that down
By davis and hammond, Laura Kuenssberg tried again to get clarity on the state of discussions between the uk and eu. Can i ask you not to hide behind the fact that there will be with negotiations, in this election, dont voters are allowed to know how much taxpayers cash they are stumping up, is close to zero or 100 million or zero . The bbcs Political Editor faced questions from viewers. And one of you called jim asked its notjust the conservatives who have been under scrutiny in this week before the Election Coverage. On tuesday, The Shadow Home Secretary diane abbott was questioned about labours plans to recruit 10,000 more Police Officers and how much that would cost. Among a round of interviews, one with nick ferrari on lbc was probably not her finest hour. And later, jo coburn played it to her again on the daily politics show. How much would 10,000 Police Officers cost . Well, if we recruit the 10,000 policemen and women over a four year period, we believe it will be about £300,0
fury on lbc, rishi sunak was asked about the alliance about the policy had been a shambles. it hasn t. first of all. they were due to go on yesterday, prime minister, now probably not until next week. the point is not, is it next week, is it yesterday, the fact is that this is an example of me doing something different that hasn t been done before to help solve a serious problem, because i want to relieve the pressure. it hasn t been done yet. it is in the process of being done. there is a barge here, people are going to be put on it. in niger, european nations have begun evacuating european citizens from the country. the first of three french planes is a right back in paris were more than 250 people on board. italy is also flown out dozens of its own nationals as well as other europeans and american citizen. in the last few minutes we have heard from the german foreign minister who said over a0 german nationals had been flown out of niger. this as a delegation from the
said about being beyond the bbc and being able to offer your opinion again, how did you find that? it did sound as if my last year at the bbc i d had laryngitis all the way through. but it s a really interesting question, i talked to shelagh fogarty who is on lbc and was on the bbc for years and years when i moved over and we had brunch together and i said, how do you move from being a bbc voice to being an lbc voice? she said what you do is every day you come in and you peel a little bit of bbc off and then one day you come back in and you think that is too much and you stick it back on again. and that is a good way of thinking about it. i am not somebody who wanted to come onto the radio and tell people how to vote or, this person is disgusting or whatever, but i do like fairly vigourous and aggressive analysis of the news, and i am learning to do that much more. i was a newspaper guy before i came to the bbc and i am really going back to being the gumshoe