Summary

  • Labour say they would end non-domicile tax status

  • But a video emerges of Ed Balls saying the policy would cost the country money

  • The Tories say the plans are "a shambles"

  • Pupils who fail their Sats tests will have to resit under a future Conservative government

  • There are 29 days until the general election

Live Reporting

Victoria Park, Kristiina Cooper and Rob Corp

  1. John Gapper, Financial Times columnist

    @johngapper

    tweets:

    Labour's policy of abolishing non-dom status with exception for temporary residents sounds quite sensible to me - US tax laws much stricter."

  2. Tim Montgomerie, Columnist for @TheTimes

    @montie

    tweets:

    Despite #BallsUp Labour probably still on a winner versus nondoms. Many want super rich to play by same rules, regardless of revenue effects

  3. 'Selling ourselves too cheaply'

    Nigel Farage on Labour’s plan to change the rules on non-domicile tax status: “I would make it more expensive, I would charge a higher premium for people to have non-dom status in this country. And I certainly wouldn’t allow it to be hereditary. The idea your son or daughter can inherit your non-dom status – clearly that needs to go.”

    But he adds: “I would not want to abolish it entirely without understanding first what the ramifications might be."

    I’d look at it. We’re certainly selling ourselves too cheaply. With that, I’m certain.”

  4. 'A very British value'

    "We believe in one rule for all. Not one rule for the rich and powerful, and one rule for everyone else.

    Ed Miliband, Labour leader

  5. On now

    Ed Miliband has just begun his speech in Coventry. Watch via the live coverage tab above.

    Ed Miliband

  6. Arif Ansari, BBC Lib Dem campaign correspondent

    @ArifBBC

    tweets:

    Nick Clegg learns about performance wheels at Dymag in Chippenham"

    Nick Clegg

  7. Lib Dem denial

    Today’s Independent features David Cameron’s suggestion that the Liberal Democrats might just have had something to do with the leaked memo alleging Nicola Sturgeon wants the PM to remain in No 10 (see 07.10 entry below). We’ve just had a response from the coalition’s junior party: a spokesperson accuses Mr Cameron of “mudslinging” and claims the real issue is an “invisible Faustian pact” between the Conservatives and the SNP. “He [Cameron] wants Sturgeon to triumph in Scotland to pave his way back to Number 10, while the SNP secretly yearn for a Tory win as they misguidedly believe it will increase their chances of another Scottish referendum,” the spokesperson says. “The leak was not from a Liberal Democrat and that is the end of the matter.” Erm, it’s not quite the end of the matter, though - the leak inquiry initiated by the cabinet secretary is continuing behind closed doors.

  8. #VictoriaLIVE - Get involved

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    Victoria Derbyshire

    Alma Johnston tweets:

    #VictoriaLIVE A lot of this debate forgets that many on Benefits have contributed for years before falling ill, being injured/made redundant

  9. 'Gutted'

    From BBC UKIP campaign correspondent Alex Forsyth

    UKIP's latest poster, unveiled in the last few minutes by Farage. He says the EU has "gutted" the fish market here in Grimsby. Having been banned from the Essex-Farage boat trip, the press were also kept out of the market event too.

    UKIP poster

  10. #VictoriaLIVE - Get involved

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    Victoria Derbyshire

    Mohammad Afzal Khan tweets:

    #VictoriaLIVE Why working families worse off than those on benefits? what are the incentives to encourage people to work.

  11. #VictoriaLIVE - Get involved

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    Victoria Derbyshire

    Ralph, Yorkshire:

    On Victoria live on welfare benefits - it's a disgrace in 21st century Britain that due to welfare cuts millions of people are going hungry and having to turn to food banks.

  12. Non-doms: The 'price'

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    Labour’s non-doms announcement is coming under fire from the business world now. It might be a “shrewd political move”, the Institute for Directors’ chiefl Simon Walker says, but that doesn't mean the economics are convincing. “It’s very unclear what additional revenue would be raised, but the UK’s international reputation would be put at risk,” he writes. “This country has benefited enormously from attracting some of the most successful businesses and entrepreneurs in the world, with the previous Labour government recognising the benefits of an internationally competitive tax system.” Worse than that, Mr Walker adds, there’s a “serious risk” that “large numbers of the international financial community” will take to their heels. “Politicians at the height of an election campaign may consider this a price worth paying, but we do not.”

  13. Robin Brant, BBC UKIP campaign correspondent

    @robindbrant

    tweets:

    Small demos at publicised public meetings becoming a thing for @Nigel_Farage in #ge2015 campaign. Grimsby today.

    UKIP protester with poster

  14. Robin Brant, BBC UKIP campaign correspondent

    @robindbrant

    tweets:

    @Nigel_Farage visiting places he inferred kids don't play football in streets anymore cos of 'deep levels of discomfort' over immigration"

  15. Murphy's 'self-harm'

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    “Jim Murphy's performance in the Scottish leaders' debate last night was confident, polished and persuasive,” Adam Bienkov writes for Politics.co.uk. Sounds like another glowing report for Labour, you might think. Nope. “It was also hugely damaging to Labour's chances of forming the next government,” he adds. The argument is that he’s played into the Tories’ hands by delegitimising the idea of the SNP helping Labour to power even if the Conservatives end up as the biggest party. “It was a moment of unbelievable self-harm and it could end up costing Ed Miliband his only chance of becoming prime minister,” Mr Bienkov adds. Oh dear.

  16. Exit checks - Get involved

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    Paolo, Bristol comments on this story :

    I like the new system, I mean other countries have exit checks anyway. But I don’t think it will directly discourage illegal immigration, the purpose it was commissioned in the first place.

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  18. 'NHS needs Labour'

    While the latest twist in the non-dom story wont please Labour, the Guardian letter from senior NHS doctors lamenting the impact of the coalition’s reforms on the health service is good news for them. No surprise, really, as it was organised by Dr Claire Gerada, a Labour Party member and active supporter on Twitter.

    It says everything about the Tories that they are complaining about being held to account by NHS professionals rather than apologising for their failing plan which is letting down patients. The doctors are clearly worried about what five more years of David Cameron would mean for the NHS. The NHS needs Labour’s better plan for 20,000 more nurses and 8,000 more GPs, paid for with a £2.5bn a year time to care fund, and guaranteed GP appointments within 48 hours."

    Jamie Reed, Shadow health minister

  19. Tom Newton Dunn, political editor of the Sun

    @tnewtondunn

    tweets:

    A rapid fire Tory rebuttal op under way on non-doms. Poster already out, looks in trouble after only 12 hours"

    Conservative posterConservatives

  20. Ross Hawkins, BBC political correspondent

    @rosschawkins

    tweets:

    Surely Lab knew that Balls iv was out there? Must have expected it to hit social media and get played back to back with his clips on telly"