steph‘s looking at the issue of transport. iam going i am going to be talking to commuters and businesses here at out what they want from the election in terms of transport. in sport drama on the last day of the season. arsenal miss out, liverpool are back in the champions league and john terry stages a theatrical goodbye at stamford bridge. and with a week of sunshine on the way, carol s at the chelsea flower show. good morning from the garden designed by chris birchall. it is stunning. there is over 3000 plants. it looks like it s been here forever and it s a pleasant start the day. this week, generally speaking, it be warm. by the weekend, some of us will have temperatures possibly into the low 30s, not all of us. a few of us the low 30s, not all of us. a few of us will see some rain. i will have all of the details in 15 minutes. good morning. first, our main story. labour is making a fresh appeal to young voters by bringing forward its promise of abolishing tuition
its pledge on tuition fees in england they ll be scrapped for students starting this year. president trump is in israel. he speaks of a rare opportunity for peace with the palestinians. the sun was out, the garden is in full bloom, yes, time for the chelsea flower show. coming up in sportsday on bbc news, david moyes resigns as manager of sunderland following the club s relegation from the premier league this season. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. theresa may calls it a clarification, opposition parties call it a u turn. either way, the conservatives have spent the day defending their decision to include a cap on the amount anyone in england will have to spend on social care. there was no explicit pledge to have such a cap in the party s manifesto last week, leading critics to label it a dementia tax . labour accused the conservatives of being mired in chaos and confusion over the policy, while the liberal democrats called it a manifesto meltdown. here s
join a very special visitor for a preview of the chelsea flower show. royal guests have been touring the gardens today, before thousands of members of the public arrive tomorrow. good evening and welcome to bbc news. theresa may has refused to put a figure on the upper limit people will have to pay towards the cost of social care, saying it will be subject to consultation. the prime minister has denied going back on her manifesto plan to make people in england pay for their care, up to the last £100,000 of their assets. after mounting criticism, she said today she would consider a cap. questioned by the bbc‘s andrew neil this evening, mrs may declined to say what the cap might be. 0ur political correspondent, alex forsyth, is in westminster. what more did the prime minister have to say about this to andrew neil? theresa may has been saying, when she was asked byjournalists this morning and then to andrew neil, that there was no change in policy but she has moved from what
this is a government in chaos and confusion. we ll be looking in more detail at the conservative approach to social care in england, and what it could mean for the election campaign. also tonight. president trump starts his official trip to israel and expresses confidence about a peace deal with the palestinians. i ve heard it s one of the toughest deals of all, but i have a feeling we re going to get there, eventually. facebook insists that it is serious about monitoring offensive material posted on its pages. and two centuries of tradition injapanese art stealing the show at the british museum. and coming up in sportsday on bbc news: david moyes resigns as sunderland manager afterjust one year in charge. the club ended the season bottom of the premier league. good evening. the prime minister stands accused of performing a hasty u turn on her plans to reform social care in england. just four days after publishing the conservative manifesto and following widespread controve
altering a manifesto that was only four days old. what does it tell us about theresa may? we can hearfrom one of the daily mail s senior columnist. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister stands accused of performing a hasty u turn on her plans to reform social care in england. just four days after publishing the conservative manifesto and following widespread controversy, theresa may claimed she was now clarifying the policy. the prime minister said she would consider imposing a limit on the cost of home care for the elderly. mrs may s opponents said the about turn was the very opposite of strong and stable leadership. our political editor laura kuenssberg reports. serenely rolling along, it had seemed, with only a few noises off. but an antihunting protest was the last of the tories‘ problems today. the manifesto created a mess over social care that had to be cleared up. the original version of the tory plans were to be bundled away. it might not sound li