You could wander down to your local newsagent's to inspect this morning's front pages... or you could just click on this link . The big theme is the papers' interpretation of the Conservatives' right-to-buy announcement: David Cameron is channeling his inner Margaret Thatcher, they seem to be suggesting.

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Putting £2.7bn back into the economy by insulating homes - and saving each household £300 - would be a huge boost, Andrew Cooper of the Greens says, ahead of his party's manifesto launch later. He says the trickle-down effect "doesn't work" - and as a result the answer has to be "taxation".

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"What we're actually looking at here is saying we've had years and years of austerity, we've had all the issues associated with that," Andrew Cooper of the Green Party tells BBC Breakfast. "We want to see... an end to austerity, we want to tax the rich more and we want to invest that more in public services." He says projects like renewing Trident and HS2 are big distractions. "There is money to be saved and there is money to be gained." Raising corporation tax would bring in £10bn a year. Raising the top rate of income tax to 60p would bring in £2bn. "There are other things that would help as well," Mr Cooper says.

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Are you a libertarian party, Caroline Lucas was asked, because you seem to want to ban a lot of things. Alcohol advertising, and potentially the Grand National, according to Green Party policy proposals.

On the latter, Ms Lucas replies: "It’s not something I would want to do. What I would like to do is look at the evidence about the extent to which animal welfare is or is not compromised by races like the Grand National." Around 400 animals are “raced to death essentially” each year in the UK, she claims.

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Ruth Davison, director of policy and external affairs at the National Housing Federation, isn’t impressed by the Conservatives’ right-to-buy proposals. “At the moment we have the best partnership between state and enterprise you can imagine - for every home the government funds it gets six for free,” she tells Today. Those six rest on the confidence of lenders which would become distinctly shaky if the Tories got their way. “If somebody else was trying to tell me how those assets should be used, I would be worried about that,” she says. Won’t the right-to-buy extension be something of a vote-winner, though? Yes, Ms Davison concedes, before adding: “It could also be immensely popular politically if we bought a million shared ownership homes that would be available for everybody.”

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Theresa May isn't forthcoming about where the £9bn of unspecified welfare cuts promised by the Conservatives will come from. "We've given an indication by freezing certain benefits... but we would be protecting the most vulnerable, protecting disabled people, protecting pensioners, and we will be making work pay," she says. Speaking from Wiltshire, she says the Conservatives in government have succeeded in cutting the deficit in half. Asked about it again, she repeats her answer. A rather frustrating interview, perhaps.

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"This move in relation to the sale of very expensive local authority houses means we will also be able to put money into a brownfield regeneration fund, too," Theresa May tells Breakfast. She denies there's any five-year delay in the programme - the 400,000 homes she says will be built as a result of the brownfield policy will be built over the next five years. "Our manifesto will be about securing people's future." Very on-message there - that phrase keeps coming up again and again.

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The home secretary insists that the Conservatives can raise £4.5bn a year to pay for their right-to-buy extension. It's all about getting councils to sell off the most expensive homes, she says. How many homes, exactly? "I think it's 15,000 houses," Mrs May says. "By saying to local authorities, manage your housing stock in this way, manage your housing stock better, it means more families will be housed. That's the key thing."

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Theresa May is being asked about the Conservatives' right-to-buy scheme on BBC Breakfast. She explains the policy is about extending the idea to housing association tenants. "It will enable these people to own their own home." That's what the manifesto is about, she says - giving people the chance to secure their own future.

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Former Green Party leader and its only MP - now running again in Brighton Pavillion - Caroline Lucas is on Today. She says she wants to "get fuel bills down on a permanent basis" not just a freeze like the the Labour Party - they'd do this by investing in energy efficiency measures which would also help cut emissions and create jobs. It would involve "a free retro-fit insulation programme", particularly targeting areas where fuel poverty is worst.

The Spectator

The Spectator’s editor, Fraser Nelson, offers some insight into where the Conservatives’ right-to-buy “bazooka” has come from. It was Iain Duncan Smith’s idea, he says. David Cameron was hesitant about it – because the polls suggest more people dislike than like it, and because renters will feel left out. So why did Mr Cameron go for it in the end? “Frankly, caution is a luxury that Cameron can no longer afford,” Nelson wrote rather early this morning, external. “He’s just weeks away from an election that he shows no signs of being able to win and he needs something for the C1 and C2 voters: the kind of people who backed Thatcher then defected to Blair.”

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