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Scottish Labour's deputy leader Kezia Dugdale, meanwhile, has been attacking Nicola Sturgeon's refusal to rule out a second referendum. He says it is clear the SNP have gone back on their word:

Commenting on whether the SNP would have no choice but to support Labour, or face accusations of allowing the Tories back into power, Alex Salmond said he has been in this situation before - when he led a minority administration in the Scottish Parliament between 2007 and 2011. He said:

In February 2007, 19 months before Lloyds TSB merged with HBOS to form Lloyds Banking group, shares stood at 600p. Today, eight years, two bailouts and one financial crisis later Lloyds shares stand at 79p.

At this price the government would be selling at a profit. But not a huge one. Lloyds shares are booked at a buy-in price of 61p in the Government’s national accounts but because there were 2 bailouts (2008 and 2009) the more realistic figure is anything above 73p a share.

So if a 5% discount is applied to the current share price it would mean a meagre 2p a share profit for taxpayers.

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Lib Dem Nick Clegg is speaking to party activists in Portsmouth and focusing on what he calls David Cameron's failure to let the British electorate know what he'll do after May 7. He says he's treating people like they're stupid; that David Cameron knows he won't win a majority so he should tell people which parties he'll deal with.

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Daily and Sunday Politics

One of the reasons that the Lib Dems are strongly against the Conservatives' right to buy housing policy "is because of the fraud we're seeing" in council house purchases, energy secretary Ed Davey tells Sunday Politics. "Because they're giving such huge discounts, there's a lot of fraud going on, even money laundering," he says.

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Energy secretary Ed Davey tells the Sunday Politics that the Lib Dems would discourage Heathrow expansion, and instead invest in rail travel to ease pressure on short haul flights.

"It's very clear we don't see a case for [airport] expansion in the south east," he says.

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Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has given an interview with the Mail on Sunday, external in which he promises there'd be no return to Blair-Brown-style animosity if Labour wins the election. He and Ed Miliband stood against each other for the party leadership in 2010, but Mr Balls told the MoS there was no bad blood.

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Daily and Sunday Politics

Why don't you have a picture of Ed Miliband on your constituency campaign leaflets? "I actually haven't got a picture of me with Ed Miliband to put on my leaflets," she replies. She says she was busy with duties in the House of Commons when they were taken.

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Daily and Sunday Politics

Angela Eagle is being pressed on whether she'll rule out any sort of agreement with the SNP. "There'll be no SNP ministers," she begins, before she's cut off by Andrew Neil, who says we already know that. "What we have to do is see what the verdict of the people is." She says that if Labour was the biggest party after 7 May it "would speak to any party that has got representation in the House of Commons in order to try to build a majority for a Queen's Speech that the country desperately needs".

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Daily and Sunday Politics

But the IMF has praised this government's handling of the economy, Andrew Neil says, yet Labour predicted things would all go downhill. "We were not wrong on all the big predictions," Angela Eagle replies. She says George Osborne delayed the recovery by three years because of his huge cuts.

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Daily and Sunday Politics

Angela Eagle insists Labour won't put a timescale on when they'll eliminate the deficit. She says David Cameron did that and failed. Asked about the suggestion from the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies that Labour's plans are so "flexible" people can't really know what they're voting for, the shadow leader of the Commons says Labour has "signalled" that they'll get the deficit down and will take some "tough decisions" in unprotected government departments.

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Daily and Sunday Politics

Labour's Angela Eagle up now. "What do you think of the Lloyds sell-off idea?" she's asked. She cites the line about the government announcing the move seven times already. When pressed, she says Labour wants to get "the best amount of money available for those shares", adding that the Conservatives could have done this years ago. "It's a sign of desperation," she adds.

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Daily and Sunday Politics

Nigel Farage says the press are "talking down" UKIP's campaign but in reality, the UKIP vote is holding "rock solid". Is it true you're only targeting 10 seats now, he's asked. "No" he replies flatly. "I hope to win as many as possible." "I'm not going to make ridiculous predictions," he says, but adds: "We're going to win more than a handful of seats."

On the subject of his own electoral prospects, he continues: "I have put my neck on the line for this South Thanet constituency... but as every day goes by I'm more confidence about winning this seat."

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Nigel Farage says he's amazed that Ed Miliband hasn't decided the public should have an EU referendum but he thinks that gives his party "a terrific opportunity" to appeal to Eurosceptic Labour voters who "wouldn't vote Conservative if you paid them".