Election 2015: Day at-a-glance (8 April)

A daily guide to the key stories, newspaper headlines and quotes from the campaign for the 7 May general election.

Ed Miliband insisted Labour's plan to abolish non-dom status will raise, rather than cost, money

Day in a nutshell

• Labour leader Ed Miliband announced that his party would abolish the non-domicile rule in the tax system, which has allowed some wealthy individuals to limit the tax paid on earnings outside the UK

• The Conservatives have said pupils who get poor results in Sats tests at the end of primary school would have to resit them during their first year at high school

• UKIP's leader Nigel Farage, campaigning in Grimsby, complains the EU has "gutted" the fishing industry and promises to "reclaim our territorial fishing waters, restore our fishing fleet and introduce sustainable fishing practices"

• The English Democrats warn about an "anti-English conspiracy" between Labour and the SNP as the party launches its general election campaign

• Leaders of the Scottish parties prepare for a second debate, after Labour's Jim Murphy and the SNP's Nicola Sturgeon traded barbs on the possibility of working together

Here's BBC News Channel chief political correspondent Vicki Young's afternoon round-up:

Follow all the reaction, key points and analysis of the debate on our rolling live coverage.

Wednesday's newspaper headlines

• The Independent leads on the leaked memo revealing a conversation between SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon and the French ambassador to the UK, quoting David Cameron appearing to point the finger at the Lib Dems over the leak.

• The Financial Times looks at the news that Britain's 200-year-old "non-domicile" regime - a tax rule exploited by wealthy executives, Russian oligarchs and the jet-set - would be abolished by a Labour government

• And the Guardian, too, leads on that story. Labour will say the rule, introduced by William Pitt the Younger in the late 18th Century, has been wide open to abuse and offends the moral basis of taxation, it reports

• The Daily Telegraph focuses on the Conservatives' promise to make primary school children who fail their Sats tests in English and maths take them again

• "Blair's toxic embrace," is Daily Mail's headline. The paper says Tony Blair's election intervention has backfired on Ed Miliband as the ex-PM says the people can't be trusted with EU vote

Labour's non-dom pledge unravels?

Footage emerges of shadow chancellor Ed Balls telling BBC Radio Leeds in January: "If you abolish the whole status it will end up costing Britain money because some people will leave the country."

Battle of the buses

For sale: a general election "battle bus", at the bargain price of £25,000. It weighs 18-tonnes, is bombproof, has fewer than 14,000 miles on the clock and counts among its previous owners, the former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. She used it during the 1983 general election campaign.

A doughty stalwart: the bus's previous owners have included the Met police, and it has also been used to transport the Royal Marines band

It's not the only bus to have caused excitement in this election campaign. Labour's "Woman to Woman" campaign bus was derided when it was first unveiled, with much of the criticism reserved for the colour.

Labour's Harriet Harman defended the pink hue, saying it was important to make sure the bus was conspicuous.

Is it pink? Is it magenta? Labour's bus has been defended by supporters

Key quotes

Labour leader Ed Miliband: "Stop defending the indefensible and abolish the non-dom rule - it's the right thing for the country."

Chancellor George Osborne, on Labour's non-dom proposal: "If you look at what Ed Miliband has announced today, it is a total shambles. Within hours the policy has unravelled."

Beth Rigby, deputy political editor, Financial Times tweets: "Like a chocolate truffle wrapped in gold leaf, non-dom status is nice to have, hard to justify."

Tory MEP Daniel Hannan writes in the Daily Mail: "What the blithering flip was he thinking? How did Tony Blair imagine that it would help Ed Miliband if he were to pop up mid-election and remind us that Labour is too disdainful of ordinary voters to ask their opinion on EU membership?"

In pictures

This shot of David Cameron helping with a reading lesson at the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School near Bolton features in our collection of the best photos from the day's campaigning.

Tweet of the day

Paul Brand, ITV News, ‏tweets: "Joey meets Nigel. 'I don't really know much about political life but, like, I want young people to vote init' #GE2015"

A beautiful morning in Grimsby, as Joey Essex meets Nigel Farage on the campaign trail

Dine like a lord

The Houses of Parliament are empty of MPs and peers at the moment, which gives the rest of us a chance to enjoy the luxurious surroundings of the peers' dining rooms.

For the first time, it is open to members of the public for lunch on weekdays between Tuesday 14 April and Friday 8 May.

The menu includes delights such as pressed game terrine with baby leek and dandelion salad; potted confit of sea trout and crab with British spring salad and crab dressing and St George's mushroom vol au vent and truffled bearnaise sauce for the vegetarians.

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