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hello and welcome to newswatch with me, samira ahmed. she won t take part in a televised leaders debate. if she won t, then he won t. will the bbc do more to make a head to head happen? and are the green party being given a fair share of airtime on the bbc‘s special election programmes. there has been a bit of a phoney war feel to the election campaign so far. before the parties began publishing their manifestos. many questions had been fobbed off with this answer, given to laura kuenssberg byjeremy corbyn on tuesday. well, you will have to wait for the manifesto for the details. you were expecting that answer. those manifestos will be officially unveiled next week, but on wednesday night we got a sneak preview of what labour s might contain. somehow, an earlier version had ended up in the hands of chris mason. i can t claim i ve read it all, but here it is. stamped right through the middle of the document, about 20,000 words in total, draft, confidential. in other ....
that a stomach churning interview, it made uncomfortable viewing on many fronts, not the least of which is the absolute obsequiousness of the presenters. and one twitter user wondered, how can this propaganda be allowed when may runs from a face to face debate? yes, the television debates. the format in which senior politicians appear in the set piece election programmes only started in 2010, but has since become a battle ground with broadcasters. in 2015 david cameron refused to follow the example of his predecessor as prime minister, gordon brown, and take part in a head to head discussion on the bbc with other party leaders. five of whom appeared without him in a so called challengers debate. theresa may has followed his example and jeremy corbyn has said he won t take part in such a programme either, if she doesn t. so this time round we were told this week the bbc will be showing a debate featuring senior representatives from labour, the conservatives, the libe ....
the show and it is just wonderful to have all of this support. i really thank everybody for it. that is the winner of masterchef, 2017. now we can see what the weather forecast is holding for us. i m so looking forward to my salad, you have no idea. i will still be hungry afterwards. we have a mixed bag of weather, we have some low cloud and damp conditions across northern ireland, but the sunshine has been developing more widely. in the south west and across wales. the sunshine will move into england and wales. the rain is transferring north through northern ireland into scotla nd north through northern ireland into scotland where we have a few showers and the wet weather will move north through scotland. some thundery showers possible in the highlands. cool and damp to enter the afternoon, but improving in northern england. across northern ireland it will brighten up briefly and left those temperatures ahead of the showers which arrive in the evening. that is knocking ....
chaired by david dimbleby covered questions on social care, on nurses‘ pay, on racism, on brexit and on the use of nuclear weapons. our political editor laura kuenssberg was following tonight s exchanges. his crowd was waiting. theresa may had much more to lose. a brave face after a bumpy few days. both facing the hardest audiences of all, this studio and you. a smile but a hard start for the prime minister. pressing bruises she has taken on in this campaign. you have backtracked on the social care policy. your plans have holes in it. everyone can see that. it would have been easy to say i m prime minister, why don t ijust stay and hang on in the job that i didn t, i have called an election because of brexit. i think this is a really important moment for our country. you have called a general election for the good of the conservative party and it will backfire on you. then to what her team thinks is her biggest advantage, brexit. but why not give people a second ....
the prime minister insisted that they appear separately. and you can see some of her logic. she used the opportunity to kick lumps out of her opponents when they couldn t retort. you have diane abbott who can t add up sitting around the cabinet table. john mcdonnell, who is a marxist. nicola sturgeon, who wants to break our country up. and tim farron who wants to bring us back into the eu, the direct opposite of what the british people want. the audience though gave her a pretty rough time. refusing to answer people s questions, refusing to talk tojeremy corbyn. a prime minister and potential future prime minister doesn t understand the difference between a learning disability and the mental health condition. i had called an election. for the good of the conservative party, you have called a general election for the good of the conservative party and it will backfire on you. including on brexit. do you really think you have any real leverage with brussels? an area where ....