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We haven't heard much from Labour so far this morning, but here's Ed Miliband leaving his house a short time ago. Shadow chancellor Ed Balls will be out and about shortly in Swindon too.

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The big policy priorities listed under the heading "What Plaid Cymru wants for Wales" on page three of its manifesto , externalare:

• Getting equivalent powers for Wales to those now being granted to Scotland
• Securing an extra 1,000 doctors and more nurses in order to “save and strengthen our NHS”
• Create 50,000 jobs via more public contracts for Welsh companies
• Increasing the minimum wage to a living wage
• Cutting business rates to zero for over 70,000 Welsh companies

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Deadlocked red and blue teams, extra time, controlling the dressing room - it’s all there as Match Of The Day’s John Motson explains the big match permutations ahead of 7 May and the hung parliament which could follow. And all in just a minute, too.

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After Ed Miliband posed himself the question of whether he was “tough enough” on foreign policy in last week’s Battle For Number 10 programme, and answered it by declaring, “hell yes I’m tough enough”, the phrase has been getting some pick-up on the doorstep. That, at least, is the experience of shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan in Tooting. “We’ve had a couple of hell yes’s on the doorstep,”he’s told the Total Politics website, external. “A few people were genuinely surprised at Ed, how good he was. No surprise to us, but they were genuinely surprised.” Labour has shrugged off Tory mockery for Mr Miliband’s use of the phrase by issuing ‘Hell Yes’ t-shirts to raise cash for the party’s campaign.

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Let's hear it for the losers - the candidates standing in this year's general election whose prospects of actually getting elected to parliament are simply infinitesimal. We've been speaking to some of them to work out why they do it. "It will be a very lonely experience," Prof Steven Fielding says. Find out what some of the politicians who've been through that have to say about it by savouring our feature, external.

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A hard-hatted, orange-vested David Cameron a short time ago at Sainsbury's new digital hub. It's under construction - hence the get-up - in central London.

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Today’s figures show that household disposable income - the amount of spare cash you and I have - is up by 1.9%. That will be seized on by Team Cameron to say living standards are picking up, things are getting better. And that will tally with what is meant to be their big pitch today - jobs, jobs, jobs.

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Labour isn't particularly impressed by the Conservatives' jobs pledge, suggesting they won't hold much weight with people whose wages are on average £1,600 lower than they were in 2010. "The government's failure on low pay has seen a 44% rise in the number of people paid less than a living wage under David Cameron," shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves says. “It's time for the Tories to come clean about how working families, children and disabled people will be hit by their secret plan to cut £12bn from the social security budget."

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Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander hasn't wasted any time in responding to today's GDP figures, which have been revised upwards. What it shows is that the Lib Dems' "recovery plan is working", he says.