Steve Hathorn, London:

One last remark from UKIP's deputy chair Suzanne Evans, who declares that party members who make racist comments are "kicked out". She says UKIP doesn't allow people who once belonged to "extreme racist groups", such as the British National Party, to join UKIP.

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Phil Brown, Lowestoft:

Asked about UKIP's policy on the House of Lords, the party's deputy chair Suzanne Evans is frank. "Gosh. I'm not sure we have a party position on this to be honest," she tells the BBC's News Channel. She offers a personal opinion though - that the Lords should largely stay as it is, although she does reckon it's too big and she doesn't like its "political interference".

At the NHS debate, Labour's spokesman Andy Burnham said the NHS was spending a "fortune" on agencies and overseas recruitment while there was excess at the top of some NHS organisations.

Asked if he would commit to no more real-terms pay cuts he replied: "As a principle yes, I can." The Lib Dem Health Minister Norman Lamb said there was "something of a trade off between pay and numbers of staff" and it was important to be honest about that.

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More from this afternoon's NHS debate at the British Library where Jeremy Hunt refused to rule out future real-terms pay cuts for NHS staff. But he argued that the chances of a better pay deal would be "much higher" under a Conservative government, due to the Tories' funding pledge.

Asked by the BBC's Sarah Montague if there would be no more real-terms pay cuts for NHS staff, Mr Hunt replied: "I can't make that commitment now because I don't know the full situation. My principle is that I want to be as generous as possible."

UKIP's deputy chair, Suzanne Evans, is urging people to vote for the party they "believe in". She was appearing on the BBC News Channel answering questions from the audience. One viewer asked whether it was worth voting for UKIP in a safe Conservative seat. She replied: "I think if you vote for UKIP you might just get UKIP. I say there's no such thing as a safe seat."

Paralympic champion and member of the House of Lords, Tanni Grey-Thompson, says there aren't enough disabled people in politics, reports BBC Ouch, the BBC's disability news service. Listen to Baroness Grey-Thompson's say how "brutal" politics can be on BBC Five Live.

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Also appearing at this afternoon's debate on the NHS were the Liberal Democrats and UKIP. Lib Dem Care Minister Norman Lamb called on the main parties to establish a non-partisan commission on health and care "rather than using it as a political football". Meanwhile UKIP MEP Dr Julia Reid promised to keep the NHS free at the point of delivery but added:

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Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt may have joked that a "toxic top-down reorganisation of London traffic" made him late to an NHS debate - referencing opponents' criticism of his government's NHS reforms. But humour was thin on the ground once the discussion - chaired by the BBC's Sarah Montague (pictured below) - got underway. Labour's health spokesman Andy Burnham said his party would repeal the Act.

As for the vexed question of NHS funding, Mr Burnham said: "The answer coming out of this election can't be who is just going to wave the biggest cheque at the NHS. We have to change the way we spend money."

Jeremy Hunt said the Conservative party backed the NHS's own plan and was "prepared to put that funding in on the back of a strong economy".

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Michael, Scotland:

BBC Political Correspondent Eleanor Garnier has given a one minute catch-up of the day's election campaigning. You can watch it here.

That’s quite enough of that – from your early team of Alex Stevenson and Victoria King at least - but we'll be back bright and early at 6am tomorrow. On a day in which the SNP have, one way or the other, once again dominated the campaign and Labour pressed home its advantage on the NHS, here’s a few of the things we’ve learned:

• Even journalists’ aunties aren’t immune from the allures of politicians (9.10)
• Nick Clegg is not averse to fishing for votes (9.46)
• Nigel Farage says he’s prepared to give being James Bond “a go” – a prospect likely to leave voters shaken and/or stirred (11.24)
• Anyone urgently needing to zip around the UK’s 50 tightest marginals in the shortest time possible now has some assistance (12.46)
• Nick Clegg’s wife has a secret blogging website on which she lists some rather impressive recipes. John Major’s warning of a Labour-SNP “recipe for mayhem” is very much not among them (13.19)

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Akash Paun, of the Institute for Government, is on the News Channel to explain what happens in a hung parliament. “There’s no formal rules about who gets the first opportunity to try and put together a coalition or some other arrangement. Anyone can negotiate with anyone else,” he explains. David Cameron would remain in Downing Street, though, but only overseeing a caretaker government. He raises the possibility of a minority coalition of, say, Labour and the Liberal Democrats propped up by the SNP. “The key thing in constitutional terms,” he adds, is not which party has the most number of seats but who can command a majority.

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