Ed Miliband tells Evan Davis in his "Leaders' Interview" on BBC One that the Scottish referendum was a "deeply devisive moment".

Labour want to show people that this election "is not a re-run of the referendum", he said.

Ed Miliband's interview with Evan Davis is on BBC One now. He told him:

The Conservative Lord Forsyth is standing by remarks he made to the Guardian criticising Tory strategy on the SNP, external. Lord Forsyth (who was Secretary of State for Scotland in the 1990s) told the Guardian the Tories were playing "a short-term and dangerous" game by building up the SNP. When the BBC asked him about his remarks he said: "I would like more firepower turned on the SNP's proposals for Scotland. Labour is being left to fight the battle themselves."

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Labour leader Ed Miliband has said Ed Balls "would make an excellent Chancellor" should his party win power. However, he told Evan Davis in his latest 'leaders' interview' he did not want to be "presumptuous" by appointing his Cabinet.

You can watch the interview from 19:30 BST on BBC One or by clicking on the tab above.

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Andrew Neil quizzed five energy and climate change spokespeople on their respective parties' stances on potentially holding down fuel duty in rural areas. He spoke to UKIP's Roger Helmer, Lib Dem Ed Davey, Green Andrew Cooper, Conservative Matt Hancock and Labour's Caroline Flint about what their party might do if it was part of the new government about the cost of petrol. Watch their answers

CBI director general John Cridland said all parties "should prioritise deficit reduction" to maintain the UK's credibility in international markets and that this would keep down the cost of borrowing for businesses across the UK.

And he added:

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A poll has found that the majority of British voters do not want Nicola Sturgeon (54%) or the SNP (59%) to play a role in the next government.

Just 19% said they would like to see the SNP play a part and 22% Ms Sturgeon.

The survey by ComRes for ITV News found that the Liberal Democrats were the most popular choice to act as coalition partners alongside one of the two big parties. Some 36% of those questioned said they would like to see the Lib Dems participate in a new coalition and 31% said the same of their leader, Mr Clegg.

However, 44% said Mr Clegg should have no role and 40% did not want the Lib Dems in government.

ComRes interviewed 2,048 British adults online between April 17 and 19.

Speaking to the Scottish TUC about events in the Mediterranean, Ed Miliband said: "We cannot stand by as people drown in European waters, seeking to escape conflict in Libya and Syria." He said it was wrong to end the search and rescue operations and they should be immediately restarted.

The Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg says he would like his party to run the Department for Education if it forms part of a coalition government.

Speaking in Cornwall, the Deputy Prime Minister said the Lib Dems were the "party of education" and that he wanted to build on its "great work" in coalition. 

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Nick Clegg gives short shrift to the SNP manifesto, saying "there's nothing remotely progressive and fair about simply racking up debt".

The deadline to register to vote in the general election is midnight and a recent study suggests there may be as many as 7.5 million Britons not yet registered.

However, according to the Electoral Commission, there has been a surge of people signing up over the past few weeks.

The Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has called the deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean "just appalling". "We cannot have the Mediterranean turned into a sort of graveyard, a deterrent for people wanting to flee from their circumstances in north Africa," he said.

"These are children, these are innocent people."

Mr Clegg said it was important to go after the people smugglers but you could not expect the Italians to cope on their own and called it a "European problem" that required a "European solution". The UKIP leader, Nigel Farage suggested that the government's military action in Libya contributed to the deaths of migrants. Mr Clegg hit back, saying Mr Farage had taken "election time point scoring to a new low".

That's the verdict of the Spectator's Isabel Hardman. She reckons they're "not written for voters to read, only for sad politicos who are paid to pore over them for fine details., external "

She says:

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Labour has launched a manifesto for disabled people. It's also released figures which, it says, show that the UK’s 12 million people with disabilities will play "a key role" in deciding the outcome of the general election. Attending the launch was the former Labour Cabinet minister, David Blunkett, who won't be standing in this election. Policies include:

• reforming the work capability asessment
• abolishing what Labour calls the bedroom tax and the government calls the spare room subsidy
• making sure teachers are "properly qualified" to work with disabled children
• inviting disabled people to work with ministers to improve disability policies

Writing in theDaily Mail, external, Piers Morgan says Scotland's First Minister and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon "is emerging as the world’s most dangerous woman that few outside Britain have ever heard of".

Can you remember the swing percentage in your aunt's constituency from 1979? Do you know where Margaret Thatcher stood before winning in Finchley?

Jeremy Vine answers his five questions to sort the first-past-the-post from the proportionately under-represented.

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Alternatively, you can visit this page for all the ways you can submit your own election geek question for Jeremy.