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Natalie Bennett says two thirds of those affected by the bedroom tax are disabled.

From April 2013 those receiving housing benefit for rented social housing have seen their payments cut if they live in a property that is considered too big for their needs.

The government described the policy as “the removal of the spare room subsidy”; Labour christened it “the bedroom tax”.

In its impact assessment, external of the policy, the government estimated that 66% of households affected by the changes include someone who is disabled.

But the impact assessment says that this group includes people who do not currently have difficulties with daily activities but who have had in the past or would do if they were not able to control their symptoms with medication.

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"In the valleys where I live, we have yet to recover from the recession before last," says Leanne Wood. She says Labour has failed these areas. Ed Miliband does not accept this and returns to his attack on the Conservatives.

Natalie Bennett says Britain needs to be a "humane and decent society". David Cameron says the deficit has been cut in half, and then produces a copy of the note famously left by former Labour Treasury minister Liam Byrne saying there was "no money left". Ed Miliband says the PM is talking about the past, not the future.

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There's lots of shouting about whether the deficit (that's the difference between the amount the government spends in a year and how much it raises) has halved since the last election.

That's true, but only as a proportion of gross domestic product, which is what you get when you add up all the stuff produced by the economy.

In cash terms it hasn't fallen by that much.

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Ed Miliband says that wages have not been keeping up with bills for the last five years.

Actually, this graph from the ONS, external shows that inflation has been higher than earnings for most, but not quite all, of the last five years.

Nigel Farage and Nick Clegg, standing next to one another, disagree on foreign aid. But once again, Mr Clegg chooses to attack Labour and the Conservatives, trying to position the Lib Dems as the centre ground between the two.

After Ed Miliband joins in and attacks the Conservatives over hedge funds, the PM hits back, saying the Labour leader "wants to put up tax and cut your pay".

The rose garden seems a long way off as Nick Clegg attacks his coalition partner's economic plan. "Just imagine, David Cameron, the chaos in people's lives" caused by the Conservatives' spending cuts, he says.

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Austerity is "pushing people into austerity", says Nicola Sturgeon. Her plan would allow resources to invest, she says. That's the initial answers out of the way, now they will contest each other's arguments.

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Ed Miliband says Labour would "boost living standards" and "live within our means". Natalie Bennett attacks the austerity narrative, saying taxes should be raised on "those who aren't currently paying their share".

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David Cameron says two million more people are working since the last election.

The most recent figures from the Office for National Statistics, external suggest that there were around 30.9 million employed people in Britain. At the time of the last election there were around 29m people in work. So the prime minister has rounded up from about 1.9 million.

But Leanne Wood, of Plaid Cymru, says there is no need for "arbitrary deadlines" on deficit reduction. She says: "The austerity experiment has failed". A different view comes from Nigel Farage who says £10bn could "easily" be cut from foreign aid and that "vanity projects" like the HS2 rail line should be stopped.