Labour and the Conservatives argue over the impact of government tax and benefit changes
The Conservatives claim 94% of working households are better off
But Labour say average families are £1,100 a year worse off since 2010
A former Conservative parliamentary candidate joins UKIP
There are 31 days until the general election
While Culture Secretary Sajid Javid is spending his Easter Monday doing the rounds on TV and radio, his boss is chillaxing at a family barbecue in Dorset.
Not that the PM can avoid the careful eye for detail of our correspondent, Carole Walker, who reports: "David Cameron had a hot dog with ketchup and no onions."
Having shaken off hecklers in south-west London, Nick Clegg is in Bath, where he's doing his best to encourage people to acknowledge Lib Dem-influenced policies - in particular the increase in the starting point at which people must pay income tax.
He tells the BBC's Sophie Long: "Today is a very important day for the Liberal Democrats. Today 27 million people are £825 better off in terms of the income tax they pay."
Arguing that he's apologised for the increase in tuition fees his party had pledged to oppose before the last election, he says his critics should in turn acknowledge "better" policies on taxes, pensions, shared parental leave and apprenticeships.
Quote MessageAll these things are happening for one reason only, because the Liberal Democrats have done them."
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Quote MessageSomething's going on in #Folkestone. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's the Lib Dem tax cut ;)
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Image source, PANot everyone thinks the government's pension reforms are a good idea. Sue, a 63-year-old pensioner from Portsmouth, took Pensions Minister Steve Webb to task on BBC Radio 5 live this morning.
She said: "There will be people who spend their money on [a Lamborghini] and end up with absolutely nothing... so in five years time when they need help they'll put their hand out... that wouldn't we fair to people like myself who do put something away for their future."
However, Mr Webb reckons the sort of people who have built up big pension pots are unlikely to be reckless with their cash.
Image source, PAQuote Message"If they literally blow the lot - and we don't think people will in general - then the state pension will be a bare minimum to live on."
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Quote MessageTories v anxious to downplay Mike Whitehead switch to UKIP - Downing St statement, @sajidjavid interview round & now David Davis statement"
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Image source, GettySenior Conservative David Davis has added his two-penn'orth to the row about Mike Whitehead, the former Conservative candidate who's joined UKIP.
Quote MessageGiven that Nigel Farage claims to be more straightforward than most conventional politicians, his tweet that he had 'Just spoken to Tory Parliamentary candidate for Hull West and Hessle who has now left the Conservatives and joined Ukip' is at best disingenuous, and at worst the sort of misleading statement that he is always accusing others of making. "Far from a considered decision to join UKIP because he thought they were a better party, Mr Whitehead went to them only after the Conservative Party had sacked him. It is hard to see how Mr Farage can represent this as a principled decision."
From Chris Mason, BBC political correspondent
For months, if not years, the two coalition partners, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, have talked up the lists they were each keeping of what they saw as the bonkers ideas they had stopped the other lot doing - or their brilliant schemes the other side had thwarted. David Cameron called it his "little black book." Today, senior Lib Dem Danny Alexander appears to be trying to cash in one of his. His reporting of a private conversation is potent because it plays at the prejudice about the Tories that they are most scared of: being seen as the party of the rich. But his suggestion is hugely weakened by having no proof of the conversation and not being willing to name which Conservative said what he accuses them of. It means the Tories can accuse him of making it up, something he insists he isn't.
Image source, Lib DemsNick Clegg has been handing out Easter treats to all the hacks on his battle bus. He tweeted:, external "Stronger eggconomy, fairer society, opportunity (and eggs) for everyone #GE2015"
Image source, GettyLabour won't win the election without the backing of voters in Scotland, Jim Murphy has warned. The Scottish Labour leader said that while votes in Scotland alone would not be enough to eject the Conservatives from power "the rest of the UK can't do it without us". Launching his party's Scottish general election campaign in Neilston, East Renfrewshire, he told activists: "It would be deeply ironic, would it not, if the only people in the UK that stood in the way of a Labour government were SNP MPs here in Scotland?"
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Image source, EPADanny Alexander comes back. "I thought it was a fairly extraordinary interview from Sajid... but I've said what I've said. It is an accurate reflection of a comment that was made."
He says it was "even more extraordinary" that Mr Javid claimed it was always Conservative policy to raise the income tax threshold, yet they didn't put it in their manifesto.
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Mr Javid says it was "always, absolutely" a Conservative plan to raise the income tax threshold - even though David Cameron said during the leadership debates in 2010 that it couldn't be done.
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Quote MessageSo the Tories claim there was no money left but, having looked at books, there was enough to raise personal tax allowance #GE2015"
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Quote MessagePeter Kellner of @YouGov tells #wato Lib Dems have struggled to 'shift the public perception that they are stooges of the Conservatives'"
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Quote MessageSajid Javid says only in government that Tories looked at the books and realised they had the money to raise personal tax allowance."
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"It's complete rubbish. The reason he won't say who said it is that no-one said it," Culture Secretary Sajid Javid says as he hits back at Danny Alexander. "If they think someone said it... they should come clean and say who said it. The only conclusion is they must be making this up."
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Danny Alexander says the "motive, motivation and argument" behind the raising of the income tax threshold all came from the Lib Dems. Of the Conservatives, he adds: "I've been told time and again, 'this is your tax cut, we want this in exchange'."
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Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander is speaking to The World At One, but won't say which senior Conservative made the remark "you take care of the workers, we'll take care of the bosses". He says it "reflects that there is a very different" attitude between Lib Dems and Tories in government. "I remember what was said and I remember the nervous laughter from the other side of the table when it was said," he adds.
If you've been enjoying a lie-in this morning - please don't rub it in - and have missed the action, here's a quick run-down of what's been happening: