On the BBC News Channel, Caroline Wheeler of the Sunday Express says the Conservatives' manifesto launch was aiming at both the "grey vote" and the "mummy vote" with announcements on right to buy and childcare. Kate Devlin, of the Herald, says the "good life" theme was not just an attempt to steal ground from Labour - it was also a pitch at potential voters.

The Lib Dem battle bus, previously known for hitting a pigeon , has been abandoned. PA's David Hughes (see the entry below) says , external journalists have opted for the tube instead.

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Michael Gove, the Conservative chief whip, reviews the party's manifesto. Speaking to the BBC News Channel, he says: "I think it's a bright and optimistic story of the good life that all of us can enjoy in the next five years if we carry on the path that we have been following for the last five years."

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In the hot-seat for Radio 4 PM's 10-minute election interview this afternoon was the Conservative Treasury Minister, Priti Patel.

Presenter Eddie Mair asked her about a manifesto pledge to ensure everyone can access a GP in their area between 8am and 8pm seven days a week.

There was a brief silence - a rare occurrence on PM - at which point Eddie Mair 'fessed up. "I beg your pardon. That was the 2010 manifesto. You didn't keep that promise."

Ms Patel replied: "Well, well... let's go back to 2010 and where we are now. Of course there wasn't a Conservative government. It's been a coalition government."

At which Mair observed: "It's the Liberal Democrats' fault!"

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Generation 2015 panel member Billy Orton thought David Cameron's speech was "quite visionary, but I thought it was bit of a throwback to Thatcher's era". He laments that there was "very little mention" of the environment and drugs policies.

Jordan Lee-Pirrie, meanwhile, felt the tone adopted by the PM was "very positive", if, perhaps, a little over-the-top. "But you need that, otherwise people aren't going to be interested in politics and they're not going to want to vote," he adds.

Listen to, external impressions by Jon Culshaw and Debra Stephenson on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Several young people who are part of the BBC's Generation 2015 team of 200 young voters have been giving their reaction to the Conservatives' manifesto, launched by David Cameron today.

Watching the speech, Jodie Lunnon felt there wasn't much in it to appeal to younger voters. But others on the panel liked the prime minister's focus on traditional and family values.

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The veteran Labour politician Frank Field says he was "at the fore" of calls for Labour to support the right-to-buy back in 1970s and 80s. In an article for the Politics Home, external website he says he still supports the principle but not the details of the Conservatives' policy.

Labour has been setting out policies designed to help people from ethnic minority backgrounds, external . Launching the party's BAME manifesto, external was shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan. He said that when his parents came to London from Pakistan in the 1960s they were "regularly confronted with signs saying ‘no blacks, no Irish, no dogs’". Mr Khan said there had been "huge progress" since then but that things had gone backwards under the last government.

BBC Have Your Say has been asking readers to tweet an election-themed poem in 140 characters or fewer.  Click here, external to find out to take part.

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There was nothing silly about the question BBC politics producer Chris Gibson put to Michael Gove: "Too late to win the election?" However, we'll leave you to judge whether the Chief Whip gave a sensible answer, external.