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The Mirror's political editor picks out a line in a Tory briefing that appears to undermine the idea that nothing has changed.

Mrs May is insistent that nothing has changed between the manifesto launch detailing the Conservative's social care proposals and today's announcement of a cap.

"Nothing has changed, nothing has changed," she says, sounding increasingly exasperated.

She hit out at the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, for making "fake claims" and "scaremongering" about the policy which, she said, offered a long-term solution, would give people security and would not raise taxes on younger generations.

She said her manifesto promises had been "honest and up-front" and would strengthen the care system, while she said Labour was ducking the issue and playing politics.

Has Theresa May panicked in bringing in the cap just days after the manifesto launch, she is asked?

“We have not changed the principles we set out in the manifesto,” she said.

“What we have done is clarified that in the green paper… we will have an upper limit, absolute limit, on the amount people have to pay what they care.”

Mrs May did not give details of where the cap would be set when asked by journalists.

“What is important is that we have seen over the last few days Jeremy Corbyn trying to scare elderly and vulnerable people by trying to suggest they were going to lose their family homes.

“Nobody is going to have to lose their family home,” she says firmly.

Jeremy Corbyn is asked for a reaction to the "U-turn" on social care at a Labour campaign event in Hull. Mr Corbyn said if true, this potential change of heart "would be extremely welcome because I want this country to face up to its responsibilities for those that need care".

He described it as a "very dangerously ill-thought out social care policy" that would damage families, income, people and break up relationships.

More on Theresa May saying there will be a consultation on social care which will include a cap, or as she described it, an "absolute limit" on the money people will need to pay for social care:

"We will make sure nobody has to sell their family home to pay for care. We will make sure there's an absolute limit on what people need to pay.

"And you will never have to go below £100,000 of your savings, so you will always have something to pass on to your family," she said.

This cap was not mentioned in the manifesto.

The Prime Minister accuses Jeremy Corbyn of spreading "fake" claims about the Conservatives' plans for social care funding in their manifesto - but then goes on to spell out the changes to the policy (which George Osborne trailed earlier as a "U-turn") we had been expecting.

She said the consultation on the policy "will include an absolute limit on what people will need to pay for their care costs".

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says his party's £1bn cultural capital fund was a bid to "end austerity to boost creativity".

Speaking in Hull - the UK's city of culture - he claimed that since 2010, the Conservatives have cut £48m from Arts Council funding in England, Wales and Scotland.

Making Hull a capital of culture had brought about a £60m economic boost to the city, he said, adding that the music industry contributed £4bn to the UK economy each year.

Unveiling his party's cultural manifesto, Mr Corbyn said Labour would introduce an arts pupil premium that will allow primary school youngsters to learn an instrument, adding that it will "feed their minds and unleash their creativity".

He also urged young people to register to vote today.

Theresa May says the UK’s seat at the Brexit negotiation table with the EU, starting just days after the 8 June election, will be filled by either her or Jeremy Corbyn. There will be “no time for a new government to find its way”, she says. “The stakes are high.”

Labour will give arts and culture the funding it needs to prosper, the party's deputy leader Tom Watson has said.

He says a £1bn culture capital fund will help upgrade and regenerate existing facilities.

Speaking at a campaigning event in Hull - the UK's city of culture - he claimed that under the Conservatives, spending on the arts had fallen by hundreds of millions of pounds.

Arts and culture has been "systematically removed from the education system", meaning a reduction in the numbers of students taking art, music and drama as options, he said.

He said the creative industries contribute £84bn a year to the UK economy and access to arts and culture helped people become more tolerant of each other's differences and was "profoundly civilising".

"Right now in the midst of the upset and division that the referendum has caused it feels like we very much need that," he added.

Labour says students starting university in England this autumn would not pay fees.

Manifesto pledges include universal basic income, shorter working week and referendum on Brexit deal.

Green co-leader Caroline Lucas says she is very "glad" Jeremy Corbyn has adopted some of her party's policies, such as bringing rail back into public ownership and scrapping tuition fees.

But she argues: "I feel so let down by the fact Labour has not been a rigorous opposition when it comes to Brexit."

Fellow leader Jonathan Bartley adds that it's "absurd" that the Conservatives are trying to pay off the nation's deficit while cutting corporation tax.

He says there is only a crisis in social care because of under-investment "because of Tory mismanagement of the economy and making the wrong choices.

"The Conservatives have clearly scored a massive own goal politically about pursuing this social care policy where people are going to lose their homes, anything over £100,000," he says.

"Suddenly people are saying 'hang on, it doesn't have to be this way - if we hadn't made those cuts there could've been investment in social care'."

Jeremy Corbyn is campaigning in Hull today, but it seems an event he was meant to be talking part in has been cancelled.

The Creative Industries Federation says Labour refused to give up as much time as other parties to questions from the floor,

The event was part of a series involving the four largets political parties and began last Wednesday with Digital and Cultural Minister Matt Hancock for the Conservatives. His appearance included nearly an hour of taking questions.

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