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| General election: Labour says Twitter has failed to punish Tories properly for using bogus 'factcheck' label – live news | General election: Labour says Twitter has failed to punish Tories properly for using bogus 'factcheck' label – live news |
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| Leaders will try to steer campaign back to their key messages in wake of ITV leaders’ debate | Leaders will try to steer campaign back to their key messages in wake of ITV leaders’ debate |
| You can read all the Guardian’s coverage of last night’s election debate on our election page here. And here is a roundup of what journalists and commentators were saying about it on Twitter last night. | |
| From Patrick Maguire’s Morning Call email briefing for the New Statesman | |
| From Michael Deacon in the Daily Telegraph (paywall) | |
| From Paul Goodman at ConservativeHome | |
| From Quentin Letts in the Times (paywall) | |
| From Sky’s Beth Rigby | |
| Plaid Cymru is today calling for the creation of a new tax credit for people who pay more than 30% of their income on rent and utilities. This is from Ben Lake, who is seeking re-election as MP for Ceredigion. | Plaid Cymru is today calling for the creation of a new tax credit for people who pay more than 30% of their income on rent and utilities. This is from Ben Lake, who is seeking re-election as MP for Ceredigion. |
| Labour says that Boris Johnson’s claim that it would allow a second Scottish independence referendum in 2020, in addition to the second Brexit referendum that it is planning for next year, is not true. But on the Today programme this morning that SNP MSP Humza Yousaf said he thought in practice a Labour government would agree to hold one. He said: | Labour says that Boris Johnson’s claim that it would allow a second Scottish independence referendum in 2020, in addition to the second Brexit referendum that it is planning for next year, is not true. But on the Today programme this morning that SNP MSP Humza Yousaf said he thought in practice a Labour government would agree to hold one. He said: |
| In their manifesto, which will be launched this afternoon, the Liberal Democrats will call for the introduction of safe standing areas in all seater football stadia. Layla Moran, the party’s culture spokeswoman, said: | In their manifesto, which will be launched this afternoon, the Liberal Democrats will call for the introduction of safe standing areas in all seater football stadia. Layla Moran, the party’s culture spokeswoman, said: |
| Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, has said it was “sickening” to hear Jo Swinson, the Lib Dem leader, say last night that she would be willing to use a nuclear weapon. | Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, has said it was “sickening” to hear Jo Swinson, the Lib Dem leader, say last night that she would be willing to use a nuclear weapon. |
| From ITV’s Paul Brand, who is on the Tory battlebus | From ITV’s Paul Brand, who is on the Tory battlebus |
| Some readers have been asking below the line why the page on the YouGov website with the results of its poll on the leaders’ debate has a 6.50pm timestamp, which was more than an hour before the debate even started. A YouGov spokesman has called with (as I expected) an innocent explanation. He said that, knowing it would have to turn around the poll results quickly, YouGov launched the web page in advance of the debate. The article originally said something about how the poll results would be published on that page after the debate ended. Later the article was updated with the poll findings. But the timestamp still reflected the original publication time. | Some readers have been asking below the line why the page on the YouGov website with the results of its poll on the leaders’ debate has a 6.50pm timestamp, which was more than an hour before the debate even started. A YouGov spokesman has called with (as I expected) an innocent explanation. He said that, knowing it would have to turn around the poll results quickly, YouGov launched the web page in advance of the debate. The article originally said something about how the poll results would be published on that page after the debate ended. Later the article was updated with the poll findings. But the timestamp still reflected the original publication time. |
| Almost 7 million people watched the ITV leaders’ debate last night, according to ITV’s Carl Dinnen. A subsequent ITV programme, featuring interviews with four leaders of the smaller parties, was watched by more than 2 million people. | Almost 7 million people watched the ITV leaders’ debate last night, according to ITV’s Carl Dinnen. A subsequent ITV programme, featuring interviews with four leaders of the smaller parties, was watched by more than 2 million people. |
| The Electoral Commission has released a statement saying that it cannot intervene in the Conservative party bogus Twitter handle row because it does not have a role in regulating what parties say during election campaigns. A spokesman for the commission said: | The Electoral Commission has released a statement saying that it cannot intervene in the Conservative party bogus Twitter handle row because it does not have a role in regulating what parties say during election campaigns. A spokesman for the commission said: |
| In her Today interview Dawn Butler, the shadow minister for women and equalities, also criticised Boris Johnson for saying the monarchy was “beyond reproach” in last night’s ITV debate. She said: | |
| Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, has given a series of interviews this morning, and the election questions mostly focused on the row about the Conservatives’ abuse of their Twitter account. Here are the main points he has been making. | Dominic Raab, the foreign secretary, has given a series of interviews this morning, and the election questions mostly focused on the row about the Conservatives’ abuse of their Twitter account. Here are the main points he has been making. |
| Raab refused to apologise for the Conservative party’s decision to rename one of their Twitter accounts “factcheckUK” during the debate. | Raab refused to apologise for the Conservative party’s decision to rename one of their Twitter accounts “factcheckUK” during the debate. |
| He rejected claims that people had been misled by the bogus Twitter handle. (See 7.46am.) | He rejected claims that people had been misled by the bogus Twitter handle. (See 7.46am.) |
| He refused to say whether or not the party would do the same thing again. But he implied it was unlikely. He told the Today programme: | He refused to say whether or not the party would do the same thing again. But he implied it was unlikely. He told the Today programme: |
| He said it was right for the Tories to respond to the “lies” told about them. He said: | He said it was right for the Tories to respond to the “lies” told about them. He said: |
| He claimed that Boris Johnson was the clear winner of the debate, because the snap YouGov poll afterwards showed him well ahead of Jeremy Corbyn on who came out the most prime ministerial. Raab said: | He claimed that Boris Johnson was the clear winner of the debate, because the snap YouGov poll afterwards showed him well ahead of Jeremy Corbyn on who came out the most prime ministerial. Raab said: |
| But on other metrics Corbyn won. The detailed figures are here. | But on other metrics Corbyn won. The detailed figures are here. |
| Raab criticised Corbyn for failing nine times in the debate last night to say whether or not he would back remain or leave in the second Brexit referendum that Labour plans to hold. | Raab criticised Corbyn for failing nine times in the debate last night to say whether or not he would back remain or leave in the second Brexit referendum that Labour plans to hold. |
| This is from Peter Kellner, the former president of YouGov, the polling organisation. | This is from Peter Kellner, the former president of YouGov, the polling organisation. |
| Both sets of findings from the YouGov snap poll after the debate were covered on our live blog last night. More people thought Boris Johnson won than Jeremy Corbyn won, but more people thought Corbyn performed well than Johnson performed well. That sounds like a contradiction, but it isn’t necessarily. In sport, the winning team isn’t always the one that plays best. | Both sets of findings from the YouGov snap poll after the debate were covered on our live blog last night. More people thought Boris Johnson won than Jeremy Corbyn won, but more people thought Corbyn performed well than Johnson performed well. That sounds like a contradiction, but it isn’t necessarily. In sport, the winning team isn’t always the one that plays best. |
| Here is Caroline Lucas, who is campaigning for re-election as a Green party MP, on the Tories’s abuse of Twitter last night. | Here is Caroline Lucas, who is campaigning for re-election as a Green party MP, on the Tories’s abuse of Twitter last night. |
| Dawn Butler, the shadow minister for women and equalities, told Radio 4’s Today programme that Twitter had not done enough to punish the Conservative party for using one of its accounts to mislead people during last night’s leaders’ debate. The party rebranded its own press account as “factcheckUK”, implying that it was providing an impartial, factchecking service. | Dawn Butler, the shadow minister for women and equalities, told Radio 4’s Today programme that Twitter had not done enough to punish the Conservative party for using one of its accounts to mislead people during last night’s leaders’ debate. The party rebranded its own press account as “factcheckUK”, implying that it was providing an impartial, factchecking service. |
| Twitter has effectively just issued the Tories with a warning, saying “corrective action” will be taken if they do this again. | Twitter has effectively just issued the Tories with a warning, saying “corrective action” will be taken if they do this again. |
| Asked whether this was enough, Butler told Today: | Asked whether this was enough, Butler told Today: |
| Asked what else Twitter should have done, she said it would have been better if the account had been taken down during the debate last night. She said: | Asked what else Twitter should have done, she said it would have been better if the account had been taken down during the debate last night. She said: |