live from london, this is bbc news. police in tenerife confirm that the search for missing british teenagerjay slater has been called off after nearly two weeks. the uk prime minister has been speaking to the bbc, defending 1a years of conservative rule ahead of this week's election. of course it's been difficult, but we are now on the right track with the prospect of more tax cuts to come to give people more financial security. and that is the key choice for people at this election, building on the progress that we have made. meanwhile labour says the country isn't going back to freedom of movement with the eu

if they're elected. nigel farage will be making a speech soon for reform uk. voting is under way in the first round of france's parliamentary elections, this is the scene live at a polling atation in paris. iam in i am in paris where some people are hoping for a victory for the far right. and let's go, girls! just a few hours till shania twain takes to the pyramid stage on the last day of glastonbury.

hello, i'm luxmy gopal. the spanish civil guard has called off the search for the missing british teeenagerjay slater. the 19—year—old from lancashire has been missing in tenerife since 17 june, after he told a friend he was lost in the mountains. police carried out a new search on saturday with the help of dozens of emergency workers near the village of masca, in the rural de teno national park. our correspondent nick garnett has been following this story for the past few weeks. he's just left tenerife but before he left he gave us this update. well, yesterday they carried out a large search of the area, they wanted to involve as many people as they possibly could. they brought in voluntary fire service from nearby towns, civil guards, national police, they had a helicopter flying and also had other equipment in the area. however, nothing was found in that search and now the decision�*s been

taken to step down the search. the civil guard say if new information comes to light and is brought to their attention that they will investigate that as a matter of course. they also say that the family have been informed of the position now. jay's father was at the search yesterday along with jay's older brother. they would properly have been informed at that point that this was happening. it has been suggested that this might be the point at which the search is stepped back, that they had done everything it possibly could. this is like searching for a needle in haystack, it is incredibly difficult, it's a very rough and rural terrain with huge amounts of problems for around and actually searching, and the situation is that despite two weeks of searching nothing has been found which points to where jay actually is. nigel farage will be making a speech soon for reform uk.

rishi sunak has strongly defended the conservatives�* record in government as the uk election campaign enters its final week. he told the bbc the uk was a better place to live in now than it was when the tories took office in 2010. he accused labour of planning to put up taxes. of course i understand that the last few years have been difficult for everyone. we had a once in a century pandemic followed by a war in ukraine that drove up everyone�*s bills and, of course, that has been difficult for everybody, but we've also made progress in tackling those things. inflation is back to normal, the economy is growing again, wages rising, energy bills set to fall again just next week and now we are able to start cutting people's taxes to give them financial security. so, yes, of course it has been difficult, but we are now on the right track with the prospect of more tax cuts to come to give people more financial security and that is the key choice for people in this selection, building on the progress that we have made. meanwhile, pat mcfadden has defended the labour party's manifesto commitments to defence. first of all, the last time defence spending was at 2.5% of gdp was when labour were in power. the conservatives have been in for 14 years and have had 14 years to reach that figure and have never done so.

now they say they want to do it. we actually said before they said that that we wanted to do it but there is another point about this as well. like everything, we want to show financial responsibility about this and make sure that we can pay for it, and one of the features of this campaign, which we have had some criticism for from some quarters, is showing a significantly greater degree of financial responsibility than the conservatives. the point about defence spending is you haven't committed to a date of when you will spend that money. if he really believes it is the most important thing why has he made the political choice not to put that at the top of the list? because a date without a plan to pay for it is also not a meaningful commitment. and i am afraid when looking at the conservative manifesto i see a desperate wish list of unfunded commitments. and we will talk to the prime minister shortly

and as everybody in that chair has in the last few weeks... the point is you don't say how you're going to for it. liberal democrat leader ed davey has just been speaking she will be the ideal candidate to get everyone fair home, a fair deal where people feel decent and clean, fair home for a child to go to a decent school and fulfil the potential of the opportunities they need, a fair deal where everyone can access quality health care where they need it when they need it. and in four days' time people in stratford and across the united kingdom can vote for that fair deal by voting liberal democrat.

you can see the full list of candidates standing in stratford—upon—avon by going to the bbc news website. with me is our poltical correspondent harry farley. what other key messages the party are trying focus on? yell out four days left until polling day on thursday and it is that stage at the campaign where leaders are trying to get their core messages. we had from ed davey and rishi sunak and the snp have been out this morning. they say their main challenge is the liberal party of the main attack they are making is on labour and arguing scottish voters should return more snp mps than those loyal to keir starmer. there are four days to go and the main messages are out there

and the main messages are out there and at this stage of the campaign political parties are trying to motivate and inspire and the key strategy for them is just as much as persuading people about your messages is getting your supporters who are already convinced to actually go to the polls and vote for you sort about getting the boat out. around that stage lots of people are still to make up their minds and that offers both opportunities and challenges, particularly the labour party are concerned about that and we had from pat mcfadden they are that if you want to change, their core message of the past few weeks is you have to vote for it. offering a challenge but also opportunity for all parties, it's all that it might not over yet. a key factor for parties, it's all that it might not over yet. a key factorfor labour parties, it's all that it might not over yet. a key factor for labour is the mood people want change. how much of that is that the focus for

the party and how much the focus for voters? . ., ., voters? travelling around the country and _ voters? travelling around the country and different - voters? travelling around the country and different party i voters? travelling around the - country and different party buses, one of the challenges for rishi sunak as he is not to standing in his own record of the last 18 months of his time as leader of the conservatives but also in the 1a years the conservatives have been in power and as we had just then defending that racket and the labour party seeing people are fed up of that racket and want to see change. i might thank you so much for that. thank you so much for that. let's go live to birmingham now in england, where the leader of the reform uk party leader nigel farage is addressing the biggest mass meeting of his election campaign. last time i was in front of a crowd like this was the 31st january and we were in parliament square and it

was the moment we finally left the european union. what a moment. it was something i campaign for for over a quarter of a century, simply because i believe for all that time the best people to govern britain where the british people themselves. that's what it's all about. anyway, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, it was my honour to do the countdown and fireworks which we always have and fireworks which we always have and i thought i have achieved my life school, we have got the self—governance of our nation and it is time to walk away, it's time for me to walk away having done politics for a quarter of a century including 20 years in the european parliament,

an experience which i enjoyed a lot more than they don't, let me tell you. —— a lot more than they enjoyed it, let me tell you. for the last four years life has been pretty good. i have been able to help get gb news off the ground. i have crossed the atlantic like a commuter speaking at colleges and conventions. all four of my children are now grown up, indeed so much so that this week of all days, the 23rd ofjune, the eighth anniversary of brexit, my first grandson was born.

so life has been pretty good, life has been content, i've not needed to work much on saturdays and sundays are not been subject to endless media attacks. we might come back to that, funnily enough. and i have had more money than in over 30 years and life has been good. and suddenly rishi sunak because a general election. at very short notice. i thought i cannot possibly come back with just four weeks to go but i began to realise as i travelled round the country that i simply could not stand aside when the choice or lack of choice is between slippery rishi sunak, the biggest

spinner since tony blair who is trying to convince us and what is now the fifth consecutive conservative manifesto that somehow they are a party of low tax when they are a party of low tax when they put the tax burden up to the highest it has been since 19118 to convince us that there are a party of low immigration levels and they got an 80 seat majority in 2019 in the back of that, and remember, with considerable support from the brexit party as well. we help them anonymously. —— we help to them anonymously. —— we help to them anonymously. —— we help to them anonymously. —— in an enormous way. i could not stand aside when under the premiership of rishi sunak we

have let in two and a half million people and one in 12 people in this country has come in since rishi sunak became prime minister, and i couldn't stand aside and see a labour leader, when i say leader, i don't believe the man has any leadership qualities whatsoever, nine. —— he has no qualities whatsoever. and i think to lead a country through difficult times in a war that is, i wouldn't go as far as that sir but i get the point, i do get the point, we need someone leading our country in difficult times when the world is perhaps in a more perilous place than it has been at any point in our lifetimes. you do need a degree of charisma.

keir starmer has the charisma of, use this ten years ago the european parliament, he has the charisma of a damp rag. and what does he stand for? he can't even define what a woman is. he flips and flops and changes his mind. i couldn't stand aside with a country in economic decline, and think about this, gdp per capita has fallen for the last six consecutive quarters, people are getting poorer. and i couldn't stand aside in the country in genuine societal decline. safety, people

fearful of going home at night, people scared to even go out to the local pub, knives being carried wholesale by young people in our country, so we are no doubt in societal decline. and i couldn't stand aside and our country and cultural decline, and i must say i thought the young person spoke absolutely magnificently. the country has forgotten what it is, a country that has forgotten where we come from, a country that doesn't seem to value our culture, a country that has forgotten what it says, a country that has forgotten where we come from, a country that doesn't seem to value our culture,

our inheritance and what we wish to pass on to our children. so i felt i couldn't stand aside with all of these things going on, and exactly four weeks ago, almost to the minute, i made a decision, and that decision was i was going to come out of retirement and come back to lead you. applause. and what an unbelievable four weeks it — applause. and what an unbelievable four weeks it has _ applause. and what an unbelievable four weeks it has been. _ applause. and what an unbelievable four weeks it has been. i _ applause. and what an unbelievable four weeks it has been. i tell - applause. and what an unbelievable four weeks it has been. i tell you - four weeks it has been. i tell you something, i have no doubt something is happening out there. applause.

something remarkable is happening out there and i have seen it across all ages. out there and i have seen it across allages. never out there and i have seen it across all ages. never before have i seen so many young people concerned about the future of the country, it's great, really great. and it is crossing all classes and ages and races, something remarkable is happening out there and we are going up happening out there and we are going up in the polls or down according to some, it all depends which methodology they use, but i know we are doing very well, do you know how? because when you threaten the establishment, they don't exactly come out with a tray of gin and tonics, do they? and i think the establishment itself knows that the conservatives deserve to lose this election but that labour do not deserve to win it.

applause. and everywhere i go, i sense that we are the story. we are what people are the story. we are what people are talking about at the breakfast table and at work and at the pub and at the bingo hall, wherever people go we are the story. already many millions have said that they absolutely are going to vote for us. but there are many millions more who have simply not made up their minds and they could come to us over the course of the next four days. and the establishment don't want us, they are very happy for keir starmer

to take overfrom they are very happy for keir starmer to take over from rishi they are very happy for keir starmer to take overfrom rishi sunak they are very happy for keir starmer to take over from rishi sunak to because it is not a change of government, it is a change of middle management. and the idea that labour represent change is for the birds it's going to be more of the same, just perhaps a little less competent than the conservatives if you can even believe that is possible. applause. iam i am used to the rough—and—tumble political debate and all the spread in love and war but one of the two of the things that have happened over the past four weeks go way beyond what is reasonable and fair. the first day of the campaign i did an event down in dover when i talked

about one of my pet subjects, the boats crossing the english channel. and the bbc news channel to the speech live until they cut it off with the presenter seeing we cut away from that because he has nigel farage using his customary inflammatory language. and i demanded an apology and i got one, which is remarkable. over the last yeari which is remarkable. over the last year i have had quite a few apologies, including from national westminster bank which was rather good as well. you see, i am not afraid of standing up and fighting for what i believe and whatever names they call me. but ever since that moment the bbc have been a

political actor and this general election campaign. indeed, it was the bbc that started off the russia hopes. it is always the russia hopes, we won the referendum so they concluded it must be russia. it must be the russians that funded the league campaign, and this went on year after year and with this in the room today is aaron banks, one of the people who put the most money into the brexit campaign. aaron banks has had to fight the russia campaign in the courts until he finally won against the guardian journalist, russia had nothing to do with our success in—out referendum.

so the bbc started off the russia hopes and i understand why the bbc don't like me and the labour party don't like me and the labour party don't like me and the conservative party don't like me because unlike them i could see that the war in iraq 20 years ago was a mistake because there was never any endgame. and unlike them the war that david cameron launched in 2012 against libya, i railed against again and again and again but of course it was supported by the conservative party, supported by the conservative party, supported by the labour party, and what happened? a new organisation was created, isis. before the libya

war there were no boats crossing the mediterranean and now of course many want to come to us. and unlike them who seem to have no feeling our understanding of history, i predicted ten years ago and the european parliament that the because of their actions that would be a war in ukraine. i said of their actions that would be a war in ukraine. isaid it of their actions that would be a war in ukraine. i said it openly, i said it clearly. and i was the only british political figure to get, sadly, to get that right. i know we have this horrific conflict with perhaps up to 1 million have this horrific conflict with perhaps up to1 million battle casualties. but that gets twisted by the bbc because i predicted it and

support for president putin. can i be absolutely clear, i think what putin has turned russia into as outpost communist country with the wall coming down with the hope of a democratic future and turned it into a brutal dictatorship in which his enemies go to prison and dive, in which journalists disappear, enemies go to prison and dive, in whichjournalists disappear, —— his enemies go to prison and they die and i think what he has done in ukraine is reprehensible and every single way, have you got that? but the final straw for me with the bbc took place last friday here in birmingham. a question time special. i think it might be the 40th question time that i've done over

the years. i expect an audience not also agree with me. but i don't expect the first question at... you are watching _ expect the first question at... you are watching bbc _ expect the first question at... you are watching bbc news. expect the first question at. .. you are watching bbc news. i - expect the first question at... you are watching bbc news. i don't i are watching bbc news. i don't exect are watching bbc news. i don't expect someone _ are watching bbc news. i don't expect someone who _ are watching bbc news. i don't expect someone who has - are watching bbc news. i don't - expect someone who has produced eight separate programmes over the last year including doctor who which i love and they have completely ruined. and then the third questioner, a pro—palestinian known activist. does anyone think that group of people were representative of the great british public and any way at all? i have had enough, have you had enough of the bbc? yes! we will renew our _ you had enough of the bbc? yes! we will renew our campaign over the

next four years as we will be the leading voice of opposition, and i say that because the conservative party will be in opposition but they won't be the opposition because they disagree with each other on virtually everything, think about it. the last four years we have had as internal tory wars. they stand for nothing. i was told there are a broad church. well, they are a broad church without any religion. it simply does not work. so we will again renew our campaign with added vigour to say that the state broadcaster has abused its decision of power. applause. and we will campaign as the leading opposition

voice and notjust parliament but in the country as well, we will campaign for the abolition of the bbc licence fee.— while, that's popular. you'll like that, don't you?— while, that's popular. you'll like| that, don't you?_ and while, that's popular. you'll like - that, don't you?_ and then that, don't you? applause. and then we have channel— that, don't you? applause. and then we have channel 4. _ that, don't you? applause. and then we have channel 4. a _ that, don't you? applause. and then we have channel 4. a so-called - we have channel 4. a so—called public service broadcaster. let me tell you, what happened in clacton sadly a week back was the biggest put upjob and sadly a week back was the biggest put up job and smear campaign sadly a week back was the biggest put upjob and smear campaign i have

seen and my entire life.— seen and my entire life. applause. that man is — seen and my entire life. applause. that man is a _ seen and my entire life. applause. that man is a professional- seen and my entire life. applause. that man is a professional actor - seen and my entire life. applause. | that man is a professional actor who has worked for channel 4 and the past. funny, that, isn't it? he is very, very partially spoken but it does what it calls rough talking. and it makes pretty abusive tick—tock videos, etc. ——tiktok from the moment he turned up he was using the moment he turned up he was using the most extraordinary cockney accent i have ever heard. carr, blaney, dove, quite right. —— cor, blimey, guv. cockles and mussels and all of it. he could have been from

the fish market.— all of it. he could have been from the fish market. you are watching bbc news and _ the fish market. you are watching bbc news and you _ the fish market. you are watching bbc news and you can _ the fish market. you are watching bbc news and you can continue . the fish market. you are watching | bbc news and you can continue to follow that speech on the bbc news website. recycled it recycled it police in tenerife confirm that the search for missing british teenagerjay slater has been called off after nearly two weeks. police on the island told the bbc that �*yesterday was the final day of the search'. the bbc hears from the main uk parties ahead of this week's general election —— the prime minister rishi sunak defends the last 14 years of conservative rule, and labour are challenged on defence spending and energy bills. voting is underway in the first round of france's parliamentary elections. support for the far—right national rally party has surged since they won the european elections three weeks ago, despite president macron pledging to stop its rise.

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