Politics: LIVE: General election debate with Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn

"I want to live in a world free of the danger of nuclear holocaust."

Question: Why has Labour made it impossible for business owners to vote Labour?

"Are you happy that so many of our children with super size classes? ...a million waiting for social care? You don't address these problems by ignoring them."

"We're all better off when everybody is better off."

"I work with small businesses, I talk to them... they are often exploited by much bigger businesses who delay their payments."

Corbyn is clearly more comfortable talking about social issues than business issues. He like stalking about small business but doesn't really mention large businesses.

Why should Remain voters back Labour?

Corbyn says: "You have to work together to achieve things" ... "we won't threaten Europe with turning this country into a corporate tax haven" ... "good relations with our neighbours."

Immigration and Brexit: Why won't you give a number on immigration the way the Conservatives have?

On Brexit: "It has happened and we accept it."

"We have to have managed migration."

"We won't allow companies to bring in large numbers of low paid workers" he says, in order to do "disgraceful undercutting" of pay. He declines to give a number. "It certainly wouldn't go up ... but I don't want to be held to this. ... We have a serious skills shortage in the country."

An audience member asks Corbyn about his alleged historic support for the IRA:

He replies he made those connections as part of an attempt to create the Good Friday peace agreement.

"You have openly supported the IRA in the past," the audience member says.

Corbyn says he only attended meetings to further the peace protest. "There was a period of silence for everyone who died in Northern Ireland" at the commemoration he says.

This is sticky stuff for Corbyn but he has handled it well. The audience member clearly believes he attended meetings supporting the IRA though.

First question: Terrorism:

Corbyn says we must not leave large areas of the world "ungoverned," calls Islam a "wonderful faith." Says we need to bring back stability in the Arab world. If there are "ungoverned spaces" "everybody's under threat," he says.

The context:

As Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn go into their leaders' debate tonight — live on Sky News and Channel 4, hosted by Jeremy Paxman — the polls show Labour narrowing the gap between them and the Tories.

The polls still show a gap of between 6 and 12 percentage points in favour of the Conservatives, but momentum appears to be on Corbyn's side. The gap has been nearer 20 points in recent months.

Here is Business Insider's poll tracker chart. You can see that although the Conservative lead remains comfortable it's in decline, and Labour's support is increasing:

The debate will feature questions for both leaders from Jeremy Paxman. It will be interesting to see how combative he is. There will also be a "town hall" section with questions from a studio audience.

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