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Who actually gets to vote in an in-out referendum on Europe? According to a newspaper report the Liberal Democrats might only support a poll in a renewed Tory-Lib Dem coalition if EU nationals living in the UK were enfranchised. This, unsurprisingly, has upset UKIP. “I think we’re seeing the lid lifted on the way establishment politics is done in this country,” Patrick O'Flynn tells The World at One. “They’re planning a rigged referendum.” Scroll down in our story on UKIP’sposter launch today for more details.

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Here’s some more details on Thursday’s TV debate to whet your appetite.

• There’ll be enough time for a “proper free flowing debate between the leaders” on four substantial topics
• The politically balanced and demographically representative audience of 200 people has been chosen by polling company ICM
• Around 20% of the audience will be "undecided" voters
• The leaders will be on camera for two long, long hours with just one break to relieve… er… the tension.

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The economic to-and-fro continues on The World at One, now focusing on the welfare budget. Why won’t the Conservatives provide more details? “We have been clear about the principles behind how we will find those savings,” Priti Patel says. It’s about making work pay, she insists. Shabana Mahmood says Labour will look at the link between the “overall health of the economy” and people’s living standards. Both parties have been criticised today for not being open enough about their spending cut plans.

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“It’s about working with businesses rather than lecturing businesses,” Conservative Treasury minister Priti Patel says on The World at One. Her Labour shadow, Shabana Mahmood, says “there is a difference between talking the economy down and telling it like it is”. She says figures from the last Autumn Statement showed that “people are simply not earning enough”.

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“People are not feeling the recovery that we’ve seen in the macro economy,” Labour’s Shabana Mahmood tells The World At One. She agrees with ComRes’ Andrew Hawkins that voter perceptions about the improving economy won’t resonate with voters. “The real problem the Conservatives have on the economy is not economic growth - it’s that too many people in the country outside London don’t feel the benefits,” he says. Treasury minister Priti Patel says it’s “deeply frustrating” that people are “talking down to the British public about the type of work they’re doing… it is not all zero hours”.

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Speaking at his latest poster launch in Dover, Nigel Farage accused David Cameron of being "wilfully dishonest" when he promised to bring immigration down to the tens of thousands. Our full story here.

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Andrew Hawkins, the ComRes pollster, is on BBC Radio 4's The World at One summing up the state of the economy.

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Reality Check

Ed Miliband told the Battle for Number 10 debate last week that "living standards have fallen". Was he right? Well, like most things in politics, it's a bit more complicated than that. Our head of statistics Anthony Reuben team explains more.

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Chancellor George Osborne had a go at making pizza this morning in Hove - an American Hot to be precise. No, we're not sure why either, but it looks like he was concentrating hard.

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