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And now here’s another member of Ed Balls’ shadow Treasury team having a bash at defending his party’s non-doms announcement. He has rather cleverly introduced the word ‘other’ into the messaging - keep an eye out for it. Speaking on The Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2, he said Labour had found a way of abolishing non-dom status while raising money. "By creating this temporary residency for a couple of years for legitimate people who come and do business in this country we can make that distinction from that other non-dom loophole which has got to go and is costing us a fortune," he said. Yes, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury conceded, “one or two” non-doms might leave the UK as a result of Labour’s plans. But most would ultimately stay and pay tax, he insisted. The policy, in Mr Leslie’s view, is "ultimately... a question about whose side are you on?"

Here's a bit more about what the PM has to say on the non-dom story.Speaking in Bolton, David Cameron said Labour was offering itself as a potential government but "can't even run one tax policy without making a complete mess of it". He said the coalition had raised “billions” tackling tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance, but that today “what you see is total chaos and confusion from Labour”. Mr Cameron added: "One minute saying they're going to scrap the status, the next minute saying it would cost the country money. Frankly this goes to the bigger picture, if these people can't even sort out one policy, how on earth could anyone trust them to run the economy?”

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Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes says his party had tried to abolish inheritance of non-dom status in the coalition but it hadn’t quite worked out. Still, he tells the Daily Politics, the coalition blocked non-doms from sitting in the Lords and the levy they pay was twice increased. He says the bottom line is what benefits the "UK economy" - or does he mean Treasury coffers?

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Nick Gibb, an education minister, says the Conservatives think anybody earning money in the UK should be paying tax in this country. That’s why they’ve introduced the profits diversion tax, stamp duty on non-doms’ property and taken tax avoidance seriously. “We will look at all abuses,” he pledges.

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Reform, tweak or abolish? It sounds like a terrible quiz show. But that is the question put to shadow Treasury minister Shabana Mahmood at the end of a rather painful interview on the Daily Politics. She's pressed on whether Labour is actually planning on scrapping the non-domicile rule… or not. “This is not a reform. No, this is not a reform and it’s not a tweak… we are abolishing the non-dom rule,” she says. The temporary resident exemption is entirely separate, apparently.

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A couple who used their own drawings to complete a football World Cup sticker album have been sketching party leaders ahead of May's election.

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Alex and Sian Pratchett, from Oxford, are dubbed the "Panini Cheapskates". Mr Pratchett admitted the couple's artistic talents had not improved since last year's tournament.

Readers can judge for themselves from the above attempt at David Cameron, and view more sketches in our report.

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Shadow Treasury minister Shabana Mahmood, confronted with the Ed Balls clip on the Daily Politics, prefers to focus on the broader approach being taken by Labour: “We have announced we will get rid of non-dom status so it won’t be possible for you to be permanently living here but somehow claim you’re not really because your dad was born abroad.” Pressed on the issue of whether the changes will end up costing Britain money, she says today’s announcements are set to raise “hundreds of millions of pounds”. The Institute for Fiscal Studies say they’re not sure exactly what the answer is, Andrew Neil points out, as there are too many unknowns. And Ms Mahmood struggles to say where she’s getting her figures from. “There are a number of people who’ve said it could raise hundreds of millions,” Ms Mahmood says. She just can’t name any right now.

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Times columnist and ex-MP Matthew Parris is on the Daily Politics show offering his views about the campaign. “I have the gut feeling that the Conservatives are going to do better than the polls suggest,” he says. “When I go canvassing… I get a sense of quite a strong and solid Conservative feeling in my part of the country. But the polls don’t suggest it, so we’re all baffled.” That view certainly reflects the Tories’ confidence about the national picture voiced by MPs before parliament was dissolved.

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Scotland is completely divided on the issue of the independence question - it's therefore divided on the question of whether there should be another referendum, BBC Scotland's Political Editor Brian Taylor tells the Daily Politics. What Nicola Sturgeon was trying to say when she got booed last night is this is not a question to be determined by the next Westminster parliament. She wants to wait until next year but she is under pressure to try and pre-empt that decision, to say whether it is likely. You know what? She'll hold that referendum on independence when she thinks she can win.

A little more from the Warwick speech on Mr Miliband's non-dom policy and the matter of whether it will raise money. He believes it will but is "cautious" to estimate how much.

He describes the decision to abolish the status as a moral decision, as well as a practical one.

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And now Ed Balls has written a blog, external complaining that the Tories have "edited my words". (A little note: The footage was from a BBC Leeds interview, but it was the Conservatives who cut out the bit where Mr Balls says "I think we can be tougher and we should be and we will.") On his blog, the shadow chancellor says: “That is exactly what we have proposed – ending a situation where people permanently living in the UK year after year can claim non-domicile status to reduce their tax bills and play by different rules to everyone else.” He says Labour was working on the plans announced today when he made those comments back in January.

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The left-leaning think tank, the Centre for Labour and Social Studies, hails the non-dom announcement as a "huge step forward for tax justice in the UK". It wants the next government to go further by closing corporation tax loopholes which allow companies like Amazon and Starbucks to avoid significant amounts of tax.