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UKIP leader Nigel Farage is facing legal action from an ex-UKIP MEP who defected to the Tories, the Victoria Derbyshire programme has learned. Amjad Bashir's lawyers have written to Mr Farage asking him to publicly withdraw allegations he made in January and pay damages - or face possible libel action.

A spokesman for UKIP told the programme's Jim Reed that "UKIP does not take part in trial by television."

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Chancellor George Osborne is giving a "fiscal briefing" this morning in which he steps up the Conservatives’ attack on Labour’s tax record - and plans for the future. He claims Labour’s fiscal plans would result in £15bn of annual tax rises - that’s £3,028 more tax per working household over the next parliament. There would then be “over £30bn more borrowing each year, indefinitely”, as the slide from his presentation puts it, and £3.1bn more in debt interest alone in two years. Labour has already responded, saying the press conference is “just repeating claims already rubbished last week by the IFS. Perhaps they didn't notice.” The independent IFS think tank has said the £3,000 figure is “misleading”.

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After David Cameron used a Telegraph interview, external to plead with ex-Tory voters to come “home” to the Conservatives, UKIP’s MEP and Cambridge candidate Patrick O’Flynn has hit back by reminding everyone it was Mr Cameron who once called UKIP voters “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists”. The PM’s never apologised for that slur, he says. British politics looks rather different through the UKIP lens. “The whole LibLabCon thinks one thing while UKIP offers a different choice,” Mr O’Flynn says, external. “UKIP voters hail from many different political backgrounds and also include lots of people who have not voted at all for 20 years or more. They do not view any of the establishment political parties as their ‘home’ and it is typical arrogance from Cameron to claim that they do.”

Ben the Chef, New Forest:

Victoria Derbyshire

One month to go and voters are showing signs of election overload. One audience member on the Victoria Derbyshire programme describes feeling "emotions of annoyance and apathy". "Bless 'em, they're trying so hard but it's not really working," he says. Scope for a sympathy vote?

BBC Radio 4 Today

Inevitably the bulk of the media’s focus in this general election will be on the marginal battleground seats, but the latest in the BBC’s 100 seats in 100 days series takes a look at the state of play in safe Tory seat Bridgwater and West Somerset. Not that there’s a lack of conflict; here the Conservatives’ internal tensions are rather acute. Things got so bad that Tim Taylor, leader of West Somerset council, was recently airbrushed out of an image on the website of local MP Ian Liddell-Grainger. You can listen to Tom Bateman’s package on the constituency here.

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UKIP is packed full of ex-Tories who've come over. Many of them see little in David Cameron's leadership that they associate with traditional conservatism. Winning some of those back is key to the prime minister's strategy - the Tories are pinning their hopes on a late surge from purple to blue.

David Cameron knows that protest is a motivation for many who've aligned themselves with Nigel Farage. So asking them to think twice about using a general election to express that is a canny bit of psychological pressure. But there are two problems for Mr Cameron: many of those who've switched from the Tories to UKIP view it as a one-way journey. When you meet them it's clear they aren't wavering. The other problem is that ex-Tories are just one of a number of groups who've moved over to UKIP. Research suggests disillusioned Labour voters are a big chunk. There's also those who haven't voted for a generation.

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Why should the largest party get first dibs at forming a government, anyway? Prof Tim Bale, who teaches politics at Queen Mary University, writes today. He says there’s a lot more to it than just numbers. “When it comes to forming governments,” he argues in the Guardian, external, “physics always trumps maths” in the reality of 2015 “freestyle bargaining” rules. Just as in 2010, kingmakers will play a really important role, Prof Bale concludes. Power gets focused in the hands of those who are “pivotal” - in other words, those “capable of deciding, by virtue of your ability as a party to jump either way, which one of a number of potential combinations can actually govern”.

In case you're interested, following that picture we posted a short time ago, our producer Imelda Flattery reports that David Cameron paid for breakfast for him and Samantha at the till in the Scottish Widows HQ canteen. He had a fry up - including haggis, but no sausages - and she had a bacon roll. It's been a tough couple of days for the PM's healthy eating - yesterday, he had hot dogs...

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