and leave empty chairs. gracing us with their presence, caroline wheeler of the sunday express and jack blanchard from the mirror. hello and first of all, let s bring you up to date with the latest developments on the campaign trail and today everyone seems keen to focus on brexit. theresa may insists only she can bring back a good dealfrom those crucial talks in brussels. iam i am confident that we can fulfil the promise of brexit together, and build a briton that is stronger, fairer, and even more prosperous thanit fairer, and even more prosperous than it is today. no, no, says jeremy no, no, sasteremy corbyn, accusing the conservatives of fostering what he calls a toxic climate ahead of those talks. we will confirm to the other member states that britain is leaving the european union, that issueis leaving the european union, that issue is not in doubt. but instead of posturing and pumped up animosity labour government under my leadership will set out a plan for brexit ba
for us on video. on tuesday, we had the perfect illustration of the differential treatment of labour and the conservatives. headline news on all the broadcast media because jeremy corbyn forgot her figure. compare that to the treatment of philip hammond, chancellor of the exchequer, who on the today programme got his figures out by £20 billion. it might have been balanced if they mention that labour had a fully costed manifesto whereas the tories manifesto was totally uncosted. another election controversy followed on wednesday after a debate featuring representatives of the seven main parties, including amber rudd and jeremy corbyn. i was thinking how chaotic it would be if they all got together. it felt by some viewers that it fell into chaos at times. one told us she found debates like that. more contentious the reaction of the audience put together by the polling company who were commissioned by the bbc. have you seen people sleeping around our stations. cheering and app
later on the programme. applause. jeremy corbyn‘s comments went down well at wednesday s election debate but was that because the audience was not representative or did the bbc handle the programme wongly? and were these pictures of the manchester bomber out shopping worthy of the attention they received on bbc news? first, election campaigns are often defined by actual or perceived blunders by politicians caught on camera or microphone and replayed endlessly, increasingly so in the social media age. after diane abbott s difficulty with numbers a couple of weeks ago, jeremy corbyn had this encounter on tuesday on women s hour. how much will it cost to provide un mea ns tested childcare for 1.3 million children? it will cost. it will obviously cost a lot to do so. we accept that. i presume you have the figures? i will give you the figure in a moment. you do not know it? you are logging into your ipad. you re announcing a major policy and if you do not know how much it will c