Summary

  • Labour would abolish non-dom tax status for wealthy people who earn most of their money overseas, Ed Miliband is to announce

  • Nicola Sturgeon says the SNP would help make Ed Miliband prime minister as Scotland's political leaders hold a live TV debate

  • One hundred young voters grill politicians in a live debate on BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat

  • Tony Blair attacks David Cameron's plans to hold an in-out EU referendum

  • There are 30 days to go until the general election on 7 May

Live Reporting

Kristiina Cooper, Rob Corp and Anna Doble

  1. Get involved

    Email: politics@bbc.co.uk

    Owen:

    I remember the state Tories left our schools and hospitals in 1997 and we are on the way back there if the Tories ever get a majority. That is why I will be voting Labour.

  2. Handing over

    Time to hand over, now, as the early team of Alex Stevenson and Victoria King hang up our, er, keyboards for another day. It’s been dominated by the return of a very big political big-hitter. But in addition to Tony Blair’s speech there were lots of other stories running:

    * The Conservatives bashed Labour over Ed Miliband’s tax plans

    * Labour bashed the Conservatives over the NHS

    * The Lib Dems bashed the Conservatives and Labour over the economy

    * UKIP bashed the Conservatives over David Cameron’s plea for their voters to "come home"

    * And now we are building up to tonight’s big debate, as Scottish party leaders gear up to bash each other between 20.00 and 22.00 BST on STV.

    For some reason two words Mr Blair used earlier – “juddering” and “cacophony” – seem peculiarly apt. Enjoy the rest of the day’s coverage and see you tomorrow…

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    Phil Brown, Lowestoft:

    I rather think the electorate is a bit more mature nowadays, kissing babies and cuddling animals is not going to influence our voting intentions. What we want are published manifestos and detailed explanations of future spending and cutting intentions. Please let us make an informed choice, we at least deserve that.

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    Ian Metcalfe:

    The Tory £30bn savings may come from tax evasion by the rich (£5bn) but the remaining £25bn will certainly come from welfare and benefits ie from the most vulnerable in our country.

  5. Imelda Flattery, BBC News producer

    @Imeldaflattery

    tweets :

    At brewery in Wales. Sam Cam offered Stout.. "Normally just drink this when I'm pregnant" "That's not an announcement!" says David Cameron

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    Graeme Lowe:

    Chris Key (14.54) is absolutely right and I am amazed that the Conservatives have not made this point forcibly. Ed Balls said recently that the public have largely forgotten how bad things were - he mustn't be allowed to be right!

  7. Murphy's challenge

    Laura Kuenssberg
    Newsnight Chief Correspondent

    Jim MurphyReuters

    Talking to voters in Glasgow ahead of tonight’s TV debate, Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy's challenge is immense. Of course there is a core of Labour voters that will never shift. But there is a long list of reasons people give to switch to the SNP. There is the common complaint that Labour has taken Scotland for granted - party sources admit privately too many MPs for too long weren't worried enough about serving their voters. Others suggest that although the SNP lost the referendum in September, it created - or perhaps recreated - the notion of Scotland as a political entity in its own right. And Labour, despite promises in the Smith Commission of more powers for Scotland, has been too slow to anticipate that and cater to those who want more. What is inescapable for Labour is that many voters just aren't convinced by Ed Miliband – “he’s not strong enough”, “he has no passion”, voters told me. However Mr Murphy performs tonight, where the critical fight is between Labour and the SNP, that's a problem he cannot erase.

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    Gareth Herron:

    Miliband spent the Paxman interview and the leaders debate telling us all how Tony Blair got it wrong. How he got it wrong with the banks, and with immigration. Now Tony Blair is being given a podium, and we’re to believe him when he says that Milliband is the right man for the job? Talk about mixed signals from the Labour camp!

  9. The bloat vote

    The Daily Mail

    David Cameron

    This election campaign has already produced a noun, Quentin Letts has detected. The Mail’s sketchwriter spotted David Cameron talking about spending public cash on “your family, your future” rather than on “bureaucracy or bloat or the latest crackpot government scheme” while out and about yesterday. “This innovative use of ‘bloat’ as a noun was repeated three times,” Letts observed. “Don’t vote bloat. Maybe it should be their new slogan.”

  10. Put your question to party leaders in person

    #BBCdebate

    On Thursday 16 April at 20:00 BST on BBC One and Radio 5 live, the leaders of the main opposition parties will go head-to-head in a live debate moderated by David Dimbleby.

    Labour leader Ed Miliband, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, UKIP's Nigel Farage, Green Party leader Natalie Bennett and Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood will answer and debate questions from a live studio audience.

    For your chance to be part of the audience and put your question in person to the party leaders, email the question you would like to ask to electiondebate2015@bbc.co.uk or tweet it using the hashtag #BBCdebate.

    Alternatively, you can text your question to 61124 or message us on WhatsApp +44 7525 900971.

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  11. C4's Michael Crick

    @MichaelLCrick

    tweets:

    I won't comment on content, but this 3D flexible Ukip election card is cleverest election publication I've ever seen

  12. How pollsters come up with their polls

    Andrew Neil
    Daily and Sunday Politics

    Politicians may pretend to ignore the opinion polls, but it's one of the worst-kept secrets in Westminster that all the parties follow them very closely. With a month to go until the most unpredictable election in a generation, the polls are predicting a close result and a probable hung parliament. In a Daily Politics film, Ellie Price took to a slide to look at how much weight should be given to the polls and how robust are the techniques used by pollsters. Watch the film

    Reporter Ellie Price on slide

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    Sophia Bryant:

    Tony Blair says voting Tory would be bad for the economy - I hate to break it to you but that's one thing they've done very well!

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    Election live reader:

    I reckon we're better off in the EU, but I don't think it's right to not get a say. My Da voted about a common trading block not a quasi-statelet. I've never had a say in 14 years since my first election.

  15. Chris Ship, ITV News deputy political editor

    @chrisshipitv

    tweets:

    An all too brief stop in the friendly North East today. They could teach other parts of the country a thing or two about a good welcome!!

  16. SNP on Blair

    Tony Blair comes with rather a lot of political baggage – that’s kind of inevitable after 10 years in Downing Street. In Scotland, the SNP is hoping his reputation will overshadow his speech on Europe today. “Labour candidates across Scotland will be horrified at Tony Blair's intervention – his appearance simply reminds people of his toxic legacy of the illegal invasion of Iraq, starting the process of health privatisation with foundation hospitals, and breaking his promises by imposing tuition fees and top-up fees,” the nationalists’ general election co-ordinator Angus Robertson says. "Mr Blair is the very last person who could succeed in stemming the flow of former Labour supporters to the SNP - indeed, he is likely to have exactly the opposite effect.”

  17. UKIP on defence

    Trident submarinePA

    Lots of applause in Dudley as UKIP’s Mike Hookem declares he wants all British defence contracts to be handed to British companies. He then moves on to the Trident weapons system, which UKIP supports - but only to a point. Mr Hookem says he wants to see an independent review of delivery options for Britain’s nuclear deterrent. And he calls for a new director of national intelligence who can bring together all the work done by the security services.

  18. Robin Brant, BBC political correspondent

    @robindbrant

    tweets:

    @DouglasCarswell has previously said procurement must be addressed first before budget boost on defence #UKIP #ge2015"

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    Chris Key:

    5 years ago .. All the media confidently predicted that whoever had the misfortune of winning the election would leave office having had to implement the most unpopular of programmes. And yet 5 years later we are seeing that unpopular policies managed by coalition and explained through Parliament have not brought civil unrest or a breakdown of social order which so many scaremongers predicted but actually resulted in economic growth and recovery.

  20. Robin Brant, BBC political correspondent

    @robindbrant

    tweets:

    #UKIP def spokesman says party would give extra £1bn a year to MoD to spend 'as they see fit' on capital projects #ge2015"