Summary

  • 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%

  • Catch-up: Guests on the Andrew Marr Show were George Osborne, Harriet Harman and Natalie Bennett

  • Catch-up: Sunday Politics Scotland featured a debate between Scotland's main party leaders

  • There are 25 days left until the general election

Live Reporting

Kristiina Cooper and Andrew McFarlane

  1. Douglas Fraser, BBC Scotland business editor

    @BBCDouglasF

    tweets :

    Both @jimforscotland + @NicolaSturgeon "How many billions (deficit/cuts)?" Both answer: "We grow our way out of the deficit"

  2. Allegra Stratton, BBC Newsnight political editor

    @BBCAllegra

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    Jim Murphy today sticking to his pledge in TV debate that Lab could make zero cuts from 2016. "We don't have to make further cuts"

  3. James Tapsfield, Press Association political correspondent

    @JamesTapsfield

    tweets :

    Boos for mentions of SNP and Labour, cheers for suggestion of "wiping out" Lib Dems. It's panto season in Cheltenham

  4. 'Twenty-three seats'

    The PM is making his inheritance tax speech in Cheltenham - and is asked if he is trying to "wipe the Liberal Democrats out in their heartland".

    "I will keep coming back and back to the West Country," David Cameron says.

    He repeats an argument that the Conservatives need to win 23 crucial seats for a majority and Cheltenham - which was held by the Lib Dems in 2010 - "is one of them".

  5. Allegra Stratton, BBC Newsnight political editor

    @BBCAllegra

    tweets :

    This Scottish edition of Sunday Politics could go viral... If it weren't such a sunny day outside. All of them going at it hammer and tongs.

  6. Carole Walker, BBC Conservative campaign correspondent

    @carolewalkercw

    tweets:

    David Cameron says he's been looking at BBC website which shows he's travelled further than his rivals on campaign

    David CameronCarole Walker

  7. Danny Savage, BBC UKIP campaign correspondent

    @dannysavage

    tweets :

    .@Nigel_Farage asked about MoS [Mail on Sunday] report that UKIP poll shows Mark Reckless lacking support in Kent: "Complete, total and utter bunkam".

  8. Chris Deerin, commentator

    @chrisdeerin

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    'As often is the case, Nicola makes a dreadful point in a reasonable way'. Zinger from Jim Murphy

  9. The battle north of the border

    Scottish leaders

    The Sunday Politics Scotland studio is seeing what commentators call "robust debate": lots of people talking over one another trying to make their point.

  10. 'Sums don't add up'

    The Conservatives' Scottish leader Ruth Davidson says the SNP are trying to blame the Conservative Party because Nicola Sturgeon's "sums don't add up". Jim Murphy, Labour's leader in Scotland, says the first minister is "entitled to her own opinion but not her own facts". He says for Nicola Sturgeon's plans to work, Scotland would have to grow at twice the projected rate of the rest of the "advanced world".

  11. 'About fairness'

    "We will take the family home out of inheritance tax," David Cameron says, outlining the Conservatives' plans to remove family homes worth up to £1m from inheritance tax .

    "This is about fairness. The fact is there are thousands and thousands of people who have been dragged into the tax who were never meant to pay it."

    Inheritance tax is right for the highest earners but not for people on modest or middle incomes, he argues.

  12. Sturgeon: 'Project fear' revived

    In a leaders' debate on the Sunday Politics Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon says this week saw the "Project Fear" of the Westminster parties - that she alleges debuted during the independence referendum -being "revived". Asked how she would cover a budget shortfall of £7.6bn in the event Scotland was given full fiscal autonomy, as she desires, she says such autonomy would come over the course of a parliament and new powers would give the Scottish government different ways of growing the country's economy to raise more money - she says borrowing is one method.

  13. Kay Burley, Sky News presenter

    @KayBurley

    tweets :

    Politicians who haven't done their sums should stay WELL AWAY from @afneil #bbcsp

  14. Carole Walker, BBC political correspondent

    @carolewalkercw

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    David Cameron says the desire to pass on a home to your children is a basic natural human instinct

    David Cameron speaking at a campaign event in Cheltenham - 12 April 2015Twitter

  15. Anushka Asthana, Sky News political correspondent

    @SkyAnushka

    tweets :

    PM in Cheltenham (yet another Lib Dem seat) talking about 23 seats for majority. Is mantra. But doesn't take into account potential seats lost

  16. Danny Savage, BBC UKIP campaign correspondent

    @dannysavage

    tweets:

    The UKIP leader @Nigel_Farage out talking to people around Ramsgate harbour this morning.

    Nigel Farage shakes hands with a man in Ramsgate, Kent - 12 April 2015Twitter

  17. Polls 'neck-and-neck'

    Rick Nye

    Rick Nye of the polling organisation Populus says the parties are locked neck-and-neck in the overall polling picture, despite attempts by parties to notice and promote an improvement in the polls. Speaking about Labour, he says Ed Miliband's party has an "extremely bad" forecast in Scotland - a situation which will have a profound impact on the overall UK result.

  18. Alexander on inheritance tax

    When asked by Andrew Neil whether the Lib Dems would block George Osborne's inheritance tax proposals if they ended up back in coalition together, Danny Alexander responded: "I think it's just the wrong priority Andrew. Our focus at the moment has to be cutting taxes for working people". When pushed on whether the Lib Dems would block it, Mr Alexander said: "I'm saying I strongly disagree with it." The Lib Dems' priority "is further increases in the income tax personal allowance". He adds: "We've stopped things in this parliament including cuts to inheritance tax for millionaires."

  19. Jack Blanchard, Deputy Political Editor, Daily Mirror

    @Jack_Blanchard_

    tweets :

    Andrew Neil to Tory Treasury Minister David Gauke: "So tell me. Where is this magic money tree you've just found?"

  20. 'One of the dirtiest campaigns'

    BBC Radio 5 Live

    UKIP's Neil Hamilton claims that no-one in politics has endured much more abuse than him.

    He said his party leader, Nigel Farage, announced ahead of the general election campaign that he "feared it was going to be one of the dirtiest".