After two hours, the Scottish leaders' debate comes to an end and the politicians get one last chance to speak without interruption. In his closing statement, Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy says a vote for Labour means throwing David Cameron out "for good" while Nicola Sturgeon says the SNP is the one party that "always stands up for Scotland". 

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Conservative leader Ruth Davidson vows that you can "choose to be whoever you want to be, there will be a job waiting for you". Lib Dem Willie Rennie says he came into politics to make a difference and after a "tough" five years there has been "economic growth with fairness".

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The mood is getting tetchy as the party leaders get stuck into some Scotland-only issues. The Conservative leader Ruth Davidson reckons better-off people in Scotland should pay prescription charges. And she gets personal with the Scottish first minister, saying: "Nicola Sturgeon is the highest paid person in politics, I don't think she should get free aspirin when she goes to the doctor."

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Newsbeat's Chris Smith pushes Sam Gyimah, for the Conservatives, on VAT rises and challenges him on why politicians are often not trusted. And it gets a bit heated...

Sam Gyimah: I think you’re going for the cheap laugh, personally.

Chris Smith, BBC Newsbeat: I’ll allow you to answer the question, how many times?

SG: At the last election we promised not to raise VAT, and got into government in debt. No can I just…

CS: It’s quite a simple one. Are you seriously going to sit with people shouting answer the question at you?

SG: When you are in government and you look at the books, you see how tricky things are to achieve.

Much glee on social media after the appearance of a mysterious moustached and be-hatted man in the audience for the TV debate between the leaders of the main Scottish political parties.

Nick Sutton, editor of the World at One on BBC Radio 4, was among those keen to find out the man behind the (obviously fake) facial hair:

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The leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, Willie Rennie, hears complaints about the benefits regime. An audience member says he lost benefits after failing to turn up to an interview when he was ill. He adds - to cheers from the audience - that politicians are out of touch with the lives of most people. But Willie Rennie says he has seen "the pain and the agony" caused by unemployment. "I have seen it and I want to change it."

At the night's other big political debate - among the four main Scottish party leaders - Nicola Sturgeon says she respects the result of the independence vote last year and insists the Westminster election is "not a re-run of the referendum campaign". A vote for the SNP, she says, means a loud voice for Scotland at Westminster. The former SNP leader, Alex Salmond, had said a further referendum was off the agenda for a generation. Nicola Sturgeon says it's a decision for the people of Scotland, not politicians. "I can't impose a referendum," she says.

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Time for SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon to face the public. A member of the audience is sceptical about SNP plans to increase public spending. "Who in their right mind would continue to increase the deficit?" he asks. Nicola Sturgeon replies: "I don't believe we should do nothing about addressing the deficit and the debt." But she reckons the way it's being done is driving more children into poverty and holding back economic growth. She says the SNP would like to see modest spending increases but would continue to reduce the deficit. But she admits: "Under my plans it would take a few years longer to completely eliminate the deficit."

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