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This election campaign is playing out like Jose Mourinho FA Cup final’s tactics, former Football Association executive director David Davies tells The World At One. The Chelsea manager is, of course, famous for "parking the bus" to stop his side losing. “You play safe, you wait for the other side to slip up and a chance will come,” Mr Davies suggests. The problem is that neither the Conservatives nor Labour think they can win an overall majority and the result is rather tedious.

Or even “incredibly boring”, as the Spectator’s Fraser Nelson puts it. “Both parties are blowing poisoned darts at each other,” he says. Mr Davies, who happens to be a former BBC political correspondent to boot, adds: “If you continue this tactic without a Ronaldo, without a Messi, without a Heseltine, without a Nye Bevan, you end up with a low turnout… politicians surely have to be worried about that.”

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Nigel Farage sat down with three local voters in the pub in Dudley last night. Here’s some of the highlights of what happened; Mr Farage's conversation with Peter, Owen and Rebecca has just been broadcast on The World At One.

• Asked if UKIP is racist, Mr Farage says: “It is not true and it does actually upset me a bit”
• On UKIP’s biggest single issue, he says: “Only UKIP can turn immigration back into being a positive”
• As for Europe, Mr Farage says staying in Europe will result in Britain’s businesses being “strangled”
• On his prospects on getting elected as the MP for Thanet South and more broadly in the election, the UKIP leader says: “I’ve been very good at confounding the critics and that’s because I’m thinking outside the box”

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It should be “no surprise to anybody”, Treasury minister David Gauke tells The World At One, that the Conservatives would look to reform the non-domicile tax status in the next parliament. Mr Gauke, on the left in the picture above from yesterday's press conference, says it is “part of the issues we would want to be looking at” as ministers seek to raise a further £5bn from tax avoidance, tax evasion and tax planning. Not that he’s supporting Labour’s reforms though, he makes clear. “There are some real issues with Labour’s policies that haven’t really been thought through.”

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Away from the non-dom story, Nick Clegg has announced a Lib Dem idea for a taxpayer-funded £100 million prize to reward a motor manufacturer that makes a best-selling low-emission vehicle. It's part of the party's goal of banning conventional diesel and petrol engined cars from the nation's roads by 2040.

Mr Clegg also commented on suggestions that David Cameron has pointed a finger at the Lib Dems for the leak of a controversial memo about Nicola Sturgeon. "It is really very silly... Of course leaks are wrong and they should be taken seriously and I condemn them and it's quite right it is now being looked into. But I don't know about David Cameron trying to be a sort of one-man detective on all this."

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Comedian Al Murray has been submitting his nomination today to stand as an MP in Thanet South against Nigel Farage and others. That's right. It's really happening. The founder of the Free United Kingdom Party has pledged to remove Britain from Europe by 2025 “and the edge of the solar system by 2050”. He proposes using Polish labour to brick up the Channel Tunnel and will make Thanet South the capital of the UK.

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Working out how many non-doms there are is one thing; working out how much cash the policy would bring to the Treasury is quite another, Stuart Adam of the IFS says. “It’s very difficult to say how much, if any, revenue Labour’s policy would raise,” he says. This is partly because Labour haven’t provided many details and partly because it’s hard to work out which non-doms are which. “What’s hardest of all is to guess,” he adds, is “how these people would respond to higher tax charges.”

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So who are these non-domiciles, anyway? There are at least 120,000 of them, the Institute for Fiscal Studies’ Stuart Adam tells The World At One. But we don’t know the exact number. And their types varies, too. “Many of them are people who are, if you like, genuinely foreign-born and raised abroad and come to the UK to work for whatever reason,” Mr Adam says. “But you can also inherit domicile… You can be born and lived your entire life in the UK, and for that matter your parents, and still be a non-domicile because it’s been inherited through the family.”

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The leaders of the Christian Party and the Christian People’s Alliance (CPA) have been interviewed on the Daily Politics explaining their approach. They split in 2005 but are set to unite again within the next 12 months. Jeff Green, leader of the Christian Party, claims Christians face significant “discrimination” in the UK. While Sid Cordle, who heads the CPA, says Christian politicians are pushing issues being ignored by the mainstream. “Other parties aren’t talking about marriage, other parties aren’t talking about persecution of Christians,” he says.

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Miriam Gonzalez Durantez - above left - has joined her husband Nick Clegg on the campaign trail today. She appeared alongside Home Office Minister Lynne Featherstone, who is battling to defend a near 7,000 majority in the north London seat of Hornsey and Wood Green.