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Plaid's co-operative relationship with the SNP isn't going to be going away in a hurry, Leanne Wood says as the interview wraps up. "We have a lot of common ground," she says. "It makes sense for both our parties to continue working together."

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Will Plaid negotiate in a block with the Greens in England? To a point, Leanne Wood effectively replies. "Depending on the numbers, if it's in our interests to work with other parties to secure the very best deal for Wales, then we will." She makes clear,, however, there is no way Plaid would ever do a deal with the Conservatives. "There's no way we would support the Tories in government, absolutely not." She adds that Plaid won't back a Labour government that would implement austerity or replace Trident either.

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It's the Welsh nationalists' primary interest in their nation which is their best selling point, Leanne Wood suggests. "While MPs from other parties have other priorities, the chief priority of Plaid Cymru MPs will be Wales and securing the best deal we can in terms of power and resources."

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And now, as a rather busy morning continues - surely it's not going to be like this for the next 37 days? - it's time for another big party leader interview. Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood is now being grilled on the Today programme. "We want to end austerity, we want to bring an end to this Conservative government and we want a better funding deal for Wales," she begins.

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You get the sense that David Cameron wants to slightly refocus the campaign on this core issue of the economy. He’s going to say today that if you vote Conservative there will be full employment - that is an almighty big claim, and that is where a lot of the argument is going to be today. He was pressed particularly over this idea of taxing disability benefits, too - we are not going to know until after the election the sort of benefit cuts we might face.

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Asked about the SNP, David Cameron makes clear he would not seek to come to any kind of agreement with Nicola Sturgeon's party "because they want to break up the United Kingdom". He says working with her "would lead to economic chaos". And Mr Cameron says he hopes it won't be necessary, anyway, because he prefers another option: "I think people would like the clarity, the decisiveness and frankly the accountability they'll get with a majority Conservative government."

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Now the PM is defending Andrew Lansley's NHS reforms. The choice was about taking more out of the NHS bureaucracy, he says, in order to concentrate on frontline care. That, combined with protecting the level of NHS spending. "If you ask people who's got a problem with the NHS... that is the Labour Party in Wales."

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The prime minister is especially keen to point this statistic out: "When I became prime minister there were 18,000 people waiting longer than a year for an operation. Today that figure is 400." 

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"Our vision is a very positive one," the prime minister insists. How about the NHS? Can the Tories commit to spending the extra £8bn the NHS England boss has called for? "We're confident we can achieve the [Simon] Stevens plan in full," David Cameron says, before attacking Labour. "I make no apologies for putting Labour on the table because there is a choice at this election." That choice, he adds, is about who ends up in Downing Street after the next election - "me or Ed Miliband".

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The PM is pressed about the potential impact of Labour's tax rises, which the Conservatives say will amount to £3,000 by 2020. The IFS though, a respected think-tank, says they will only amount to about £100. The PM says Labour's "different choice... I think will lead to tax rises".

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"I make no apology about putting the danger of Labour putting up taxes squarely at the centre of this campaign," David Cameron says. That's a repeat of a line from his BBC Breakfast earlier this morning - it's clearly the line he's sticking to. "The tone was absolutely right," he says of his Downing Street statement yesterday - and that much-debated £3,000 figure.

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David Cameron is now on the Today programme being interviewed by Sarah Montague. Her first question is about his attack on Ed Miliband yesterday - and why it took place in Downing Street yesterday after the PM's visit to the Queen. "We're setting out a very positive vision for Britain," the prime minister insists.

Later today UKIP supporters are heading to the white cliffs of Dover where they’re launching their latest election poster - on immigration, unsurprisingly. Nigel Farage is set to accuse David Cameron of “deliberately making a false promise” to voters at the last general election, when the Conservatives promised to cut net migration from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands. They failed - leading to Mr Farage’s claim that Mr Cameron was “utterly disingenuous” on the issue.