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The European Union's Brexit negotiator says no deal is not an option in talks due to start on 19 June.

The top trend this lunchtime is 'U turn' with 42,000 tweets commenting on Theresa May's statement. But how tweeters describe Mrs May's "clarification" depends on who they're voting for.

An SNP candidate apologises for falsely claiming the nurse was married to a Conservative councillor.

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Jeremy Corbyn says the government has shown it is "in chaos and confusion" following Theresa May's U-turn on its flagship social care policy.

He dismissed her claims that he was "scaremongering" over the social care plans, after Labour went on the attack over the proposals.

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Greater Manchester mayor and former Labour health secretary Andy Burnham says the Conservatives' social care policy is "a mess".

"I've never in my political life seen a U-turn on a manifesto - this is a first - and it does undermine the central theme of Theresa May's campaign about strong and stable leadership," he says.

While the Tories had finally grasped there is a need for "radical reform" of social care, he said, people still do not know what the cap would be.

Mr Burnham, who previously proposed a "death tax" - imposing a tax on people's estates after they die to pay for social care - says the same rules need to apply as they do to the NHS "whereby everybody contributes and then everybody is covered".

"I say do it from everybody - collect something from everybody - because that's the way the NHS works, that we all share the costs and share the risks together."

The anti-fox hunting protester was dragged away by police officers as he approached Theresa May's car.

Despite Theresa May's attempts at "clarification", many of you still have questions about what's being proposed.

Ingrid Marsh's mother has dementia. She wants to know: "Will any of this be retrospective? I'm worried that under existing regulations there won't be enough equity in my mum's house to keep her at her specialist dementia home."

Carys Standing, from Wales, ask: "Does this mean that the people who have worked hard to buy their own property are penalised in comparison to people who rent their home? Why should someone who suffers with dementia and their carers be discriminated against?"

But others support the plans, including Neil Lyon, who writes: "I can certainly say this will affect my family and we are all working-class people, but perhaps it is the price we will pay for living longer?"

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Chancellor Philip Hammond spoke to �鶹Լ�� Radio Derby shortly after Theresa May announced her change of policy on social care.

"We've always been clear there would be a consultation later this year," he said. "We were already preparing the green paper before the election was called.

"What Theresa May has said this morning is just for clarity, that one of the issues that will be consulted on in that green paper is around an overall cap on how much people can spend... She's clarified that will be one of the issues - it won't be the only issue."

Examining how parties are attempting to rebuild trust in the UK's political institutions.

Kezia Dugdale launches Scottish Labour's general election manifesto giving "a cast iron guarantee" that her party opposes a second independence referendum.

Reality Check

Today, Theresa May says “nothing has changed”.

Is that true?

In a press release today, the Conservatives say “we will make sure there will be an absolute limit on what people will need to pay for their care.”

But in a press release from 17 May, the party said of their manifesto proposals “we believe this is fairer and more equitable than the current system and the cap recommended by the Dilnot Report.”

In other words, last week there was no suggestion that a cap was being considered. Now, it seems, there is.

(In the manifesto itself, it says: "We consider it more equitable, within and across the generations, than the proposals following the Dilnot Report, which mostly benefited a small number of wealthier people.")

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The aforementioned Sir Andrew Dilnot has just been speaking to The World at One.

He had criticised the social care plans as set out in the Tory manifesto and stuck to his recommendation of a cap.

"I think we should welcome the fact that there's been a recognition of the need to think more clearly and come up with a more coherent set of policies," he says.

We weren't in a good place, but now we have a chance to get to one, he continues.

"Elections often don't bring out the very best in the policy making process... so yes it doesn't look terribly well handled, but the thing that matters in the end is where we get to."

Throughout the election Newsnight is embedding in the Cumbrian constituency of Barrow and Furness to capture close up how the campaign looks from the perspective of one key marginal seat. Filmmaker Nick Blakemore reports. Full list of candidates running is: Loraine Birchall (Liberal Democrats), Simon Fell (Conservatives), Rob o'Hara (Green), Alan Piper (UKIP), John Woodscock (Labour/Co-operative Party).

Kezia Dugdale launches Scottish Labour's general election manifesto giving "a cast iron guarantee" that her party opposes a second independence referendum.

This just in from our political editor - she's referring to the cap recommended by Sir Andrew Dilnot, who carried out an independent review of social care funding at the instruction of David Cameron.

Dilnot proposed a £35,000 cap on bills for an individual - Mr Cameron eventually settled on £72,000.

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The Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has defended the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn following the row over his refusal to condemn the IRA during an interview yesterday.

Mr Adams, who was helping to launch his party's election manifesto said Mr Corbyn was "on the right side of history".

The party goes into the election calling for no Brexit, a referendum on Irish unity and an end to cuts. They want Northern Ireland to have special status within the European Union. The party says it's also working to re-establish the Stormont power sharing Executive which collapsed in January.

In the subsequent Assembly election Sinn Fein experienced a surge, finishing within one seat of the Democratic Unionist Party.

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Tim Farron picks up Nick Clegg's "manifesto meltdown" line and runs with it: