ITV Election Debate LIVE: Penny Mordaunt accuses Labour of having '£38.5 billion black hole' in party manifesto as parties clash over tax and NHS

Penny Mordaunt has taken purpose astatine Labour accusing the enactment of having a 'black spread of £38.5 billion' successful the party's manifesto.

Ms Mordaunt said: 'Labour has lone declared astir a 4th of the taxes they’re going to enactment up. They’re going to person to enactment up a batch more.'

Angela Rayner, the lawman Labour leader, deed backmost to accidental what's unaffordable is 5 much years of the Conservatives.

She added: 'You’ve already crashed the system once.'

Daisy Cooper, the lawman Liberal Democrat leader, interjected to accidental the Tories had raised the taxation load to the highest level successful 80 years.

First clash of the nighttime comes arsenic Stephen Flynn challenges Angela Rayner implicit societal care

Mr Flynn accused Wes Streeting of 'wanting to clasp the doorway unfastened to the backstage sector', to which Ms Rayner changeable backmost 'that’s not true'.

Ms Rayner says:

Nigel Farage says Labour is close to usage the backstage sector.

All the leaders are talking astir the NHS and Mr Farage says the situation successful the wellness work has been caused by an 'exploding population' arsenic helium calls for a French insurance-style strategy successful place.

Penny Mordaunt is speedy to onslaught Labour arsenic she claims they are the lone enactment to chopped the NHS budget.

Angela Rayner says the NHS is 'one of our proudest achievements' that Labour volition hole again.

Carla Denyer says the Greens volition supply 'transformative investment' portion Daisy Cooper for the Lib Dems says her party's manifesto is astir redeeming the NHS.

Carla Denyer, the Green leader, said radical were leaving the NHS “for amended wage and amended conditions elsewhere”, pledging “transformative investment” successful wellness nether the Greens

Julie Etchingham starts the statement by explaining questions volition beryllium asked by audience.

Each subordinate volition springiness an reply interrupted.

When everyone has spoken the statement volition past instrumentality place.

The archetypal question is from a antheral named Dennis from Southport who asks however the parties volition reconstruct nationalist services.

We're astir to commencement the ITV debate.

The candidates are introducing themselves earlier the questions start.

With conscionable minutes to spell earlier the statement starts, we've had immoderate aboriginal thoughts from the Greens.

Green Party Deputy Leader, Zack Polanski, said from the rotation room:

Here is Nigel Farage's absorption to that immense canvass that has dropped connected the eve of the ITV predetermination debate.

Nigel Farage teased a large announcement earlier helium heads to the predetermination debate... and present it is.

Reform has overtaken the Conservatives successful the polls for the archetypal time.

A YouGov survey for The Times finds Nigel Farage's enactment connected 19 points - 1 successful beforehand of the Tories.

The canvass was carried retired this week aft Rishi Sunak launched the Conservative manifesto.

I'm definite it volition beryllium mentioned tonight!

We're conscionable 30 minutes from the ITV Election Debate.

Hopefully we volition commencement to spot candidates arriving soon truthful instrumentality with america for unrecorded updates from passim the debate.

Big quality to bring you contiguous earlier we look guardant to the ITV debate.

Army weaponry disposal experts and constabulary are investigating a fishy instrumentality astatine a Conservative candidate's bureau successful West Sussex.

Sussex Police were pictured astatine the country extracurricular Jeremy Quin's bureau successful Horsham, with photos showing a weaponry disposal conveyance and a occurrence motor connected the street.

Read Katherine Lawton's communicative below:

One of the standout moments from this morning's Labour manifesto motorboat was the infinitesimal a clime heckler disrupted the Labour person during his flagship address.

The Green New Deal Rising run radical named the activistic arsenic 27-year-old Alice, who said successful a statement: 'I disrupted the Labour Party’s manifesto motorboat contiguous due to the fact that I consciousness truthful betrayed and disappointed by what the Labour Party is offering astatine this election.'

Sir Keir responded to the protestation by saying Labour 'gave up connected being a enactment of protestation 5 years ago', earlier adding it present wanted to beryllium a 'party successful power'.

See the infinitesimal below:

Another small point from today...

Dawn Butler, a Labour campaigner and erstwhile MP who is lasting successful the London spot of Brent Central, near societal media users cringing contiguous aft she released a rap of a run song.

Ms Butler has released a video of herself rapping to people the three-week countdown to the wide election. She shared a clip of herself singing implicit a remixed mentation of '21 Seconds' by So Solid Crew.

'We’ve got 21 days to go,' she sings, earlier referencing Rishi Sunak’s D-Day blunder.

Receving a mixed absorption connected societal media, 1 wrote: 'This is beyond embarrassing, the UK’s governmental people is simply a joke.'

Before we look up to tonight's debate, let's conscionable punctual you each of what's happened connected the predetermination way earlier today.

Tonight's 90-minute statement volition beryllium moderated by ITV News presenter Julie Etchingham (pictured) who besides hosted the archetypal televised leaders clash betwixt Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer connected June 4.

While immoderate viewers praised Ms Etchingham for however she handled that debate, others slammed ITV for allowing Mr Sunak and Mr Starmer to talk implicit 1 different and accused the big of 'failing to get a grip of' the debate.

Read our portion below:

The ITV Election Debate volition beryllium shown unrecorded connected ITV for 90 minutes from 8.30pm.

Looking guardant to tonight's statement and a rematch of the archetypal encounter, present is the afloat line-up of leaders oregon elder representatives taking part:

Throughout the predetermination debates we person heard from our ain MailOnline sheet of voters.

Relive the verdict from the archetypal multi-party statement arsenic immoderate felt Penny Mordaunt was 'dealt a atrocious hand' by having to correspond the Conservatives aft Rishi Sunak made an aboriginal exit from the D-Day commemorations successful Normandy.

Read the portion below:

For the archetypal televised multi-party statement connected the BBC past Friday, an mean assemblage of 3.2 cardinal tuned successful to ticker the clash.

That was an summation from the BBC's seven-way statement successful the run-up to the 2019 wide election, which attracted an mean assemblage of 2.5 million.

During Friday's debate, hosted by Mishal Husain, Ms Mordaunt and Ms Rayner engaged successful fiery exchanges implicit tax, NHS waiting lists and the propulsion for Net Zero.

Ms Mordaunt continued to repetition the Tories' assertion that Labour would rise taxes by £2,000 if elected, prompting Ms Rayner to impeach the Cabinet curate of lying.

A drawback spectator canvass taken aft the statement placed Mr Farage arsenic the winner. The poll, conducted by researchers More In Common, asked much than 1,000 viewers who won the debate, with 25 per cent of those surveyed opting for Mr Farage.

Our governmental analogous Greg Heffer volition beryllium covering tonight's statement for MailOnline.

He reports Tory curate Penny Mordaunt, Labour's Angela Rayner and Reform UK person Nigel Farage are acceptable for different fiery clash contiguous successful the seven-way TV wide predetermination debate.

Mr Farage - who was judged to person won past week's statement by viewers - risked a sexism enactment erstwhile helium suggested the heated exchanges betwixt the House of Commons Leader and Labour lawman represented a 'catfight'.

Read his preview here:

Hello and invited to MailOnline's unrecorded sum of the ITV Election Debate featuring leaders and elder politicians from 7 governmental parties successful this year's wide election.

Tonight we volition spot Reform person Nigel Farage, Conservative Cabinet curate Penny Mordaunt and Labour lawman Angela Rayner look disconnected against 1 different arsenic good arsenic representatives from the Lib Dems, SNP, Greens and Plaid Cymru.

The line-up is simply a c transcript of the archetypal televised multi-party statement connected the BBC past Friday successful which voters declared Nigel Farage arsenic the victor successful a drawback poll.

Join america for unrecorded updates passim the 90-minute lawsuit positive absorption afterwards.