• Labour previews its manifesto launch, promising no "additional borrowing" to fund pledges

• The Conservatives unveil plans to cut inheritance tax on family homes

• The Lib Dems set out plans to eliminate the deficit by 2017/18, while the Greens say they would introduce a top tax rate of 60%

• Earlier, Labour had promised to impose bigger fines on people found to be avoiding tax

Despite Labour's pledge not to borrow to fund policy pledges, Conservative Treasury Minister David Gauke insists his rivals have "no plan to clear the deficit" and would have to borrow more.

Labour's manifesto launch comes as the party opens up a three-point lead over the Conservatives, according to the latest YouGov poll for the Sun. It puts Ed Miliband's party on 36%. The poll has UKIP on 13% and the Liberal Democrats on 7%.

Page one of Labour's manifesto, says Ed Miliband, contains a "vow" to protect the nation's finances. Launching the document on Monday he will say Labour is making a "clear commitment" that every policy will be paid for "without a single penny of extra borrowing".

And he will accuse the Conservatives of "throwing spending promises around" with no idea where the money is coming from. He will call the promises "unfunded, unfair and unbelievable".

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Labour's big pledge at tomorrow's manifesto launch will be a guarantee that every one of its policies will be funded without "additional borrowing".

The party is also pledging to cut the fiscal deficit in every year of the next parliament, if it's elected in May.

But if there are to be any pre-election sweeteners, the party isn't revealing them yet.

"It isn’t a shopping list of spending policies," according to leader Ed Miliband's script.

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Monday's front pages are starting to arrive - but no mention of Labour's impending manifesto launch on the Metro's cover.

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If you missed BBC Radio 5 live's John Pienaar explaining to Joey Essex the technicalities of hung parliaments earlier, you can catch up thanks to this In Short clip.

The reality TV star - who's following the election campaign for ITV's Educating Joey Essex documentary - revealed he's been unimpressed by some of what he's seen so far.

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Believe it or not, life continues away from the UK election campaign. From the US, we have the long-awaited confirmation that Hillary Clinton is to run for the Democratic candidacy in the 2016 presidential race.

A top adviser to the former secretary of state confirmed her plans in an email to supporters. News agencies report that she will "soon" hit the campaign trail in early voting states such as Iowa.

And you thought the campaign here had been going on forever...

A Press Association photographer spotted this member of the public wearing her politics on - or, rather under - her sleeve as SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon campaigned in Paisley. Her tattoo reads "The dream shall never die."

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That was also the phrase chosen by former First Minister Alex Salmond as the title for his diaries of the Scottish independence campaign.

Looks painful to us.

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There has also been much talk of tactical voting in Scotland , where a group of former "No" to independence campaigners are urging voters whose favoured party is an outsider in their constituency to back whichever candidate is most likely to defeat the SNP.

Now the SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, is pushing voters in the opposite direction. She wants Labour supporters seeking an earlier end to spending cuts to back her party.

"A strong team of SNP MPs holding the balance of power will lock the Tories out of Downing Street, put an end to austerity and ensure the progressive politics Labour supporters hold dear are firmly on Westminster's agenda," she says.

Former Labour MP Dame Anne McGuire retorts: "A vote for any other candidate than the Labour candidate could help the Tories back into government and give Scotland and the UK another five years of austerity."

The Daily Telegraph is reporting that Nigel Farage, external is advising UKIP supporters to vote tactically if they live in seats where his party is out of the running.

The paper quotes him dismissing David Cameron's suggestion that UKIP voters should "come home" to the Conservatives but adding: "It's a complex electoral system and people have to use their votes as wisely as they can."

Given Mr Farage's comments that it would be an "infinitely better position" to have an EU in-out referendum under the Tories than a Labour-led government, the Telegraph interprets his stance as urging people to vote Conservative in seats UKIP has no chance of winning.