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At the end of David Cameron's interview on This Morning, presenter Phillip Schofield previews the next segment on the programme, which features a man who can "pinch your wallet, your watch and even your tie without you noticing".

David Cameron is heard off camera, quipping: "Who's that, Alex Salmond?"

David Cameron tells ITV's This Morning that people from outside the EU would face a charge on their visas if they use the NHS.

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Prime Minister David Cameron has told ITV's This Morning that more action is needed to save lives following the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean that has left thousands of migrants dead. "We need to do better - Europe needs to do better... but no-one should pretend there are easy answers here," he says. Mr Cameron says he would like to see more search and rescue operations, to go after the traffickers and their boats and action to stabilise migrants' countries of origin.

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Daily and Sunday Politics

The Daily Politics has been interviewing a series of smaller parties contesting seats at the general election, and it’s fair to say not all of them are household names to everyone. On today’s programme, Jo Coburn will be talking to Mark Berry, better known as Bez from the Happy Mondays, who is a candidate for the We Are The Reality Party, which believes in closing all off-shore tax havens, renationalisation of water, energy and transport, and banning fracking. Watch his previous Sunday Politics interview with Andrew Neil.

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The Liberal Democrats’ strategy of promising “passion” in a Labour government or “rigour” in a Conservative one looks good on paper but isn’t quite working out in reality, Rafael Behr suggests in the Guardian., external

He writes: “Clegg wants to be seen as a vital component in the machinery of government but the Lib Dems come across more like rinse aid in a dishwasher: probably useful, surely not essential, easily forgettable, and few people are clear about what it does.” Ouch.

He argues the Lib Dems are losing airtime to UKIP, the Greens and the SNP – and have been surprised by the sheer partisanship of attacks from the right-wing press.

David Cameron is asked if he has full confidence in his party chairman, Grant Shapps.

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None of the main parties are being straight with voters about the spending cuts to come, Paul Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies argues in today’s Thunderer column in the Times, external .

He says there’s a “sense that there is free money out there just waiting to flow into the Treasury’s coffers without anyone noticing”. It’s all part of a “wider narrative that there is a magic money tree that we can pluck at will”. Just to be clear, he adds: “There isn’t.”

It's a message Mr Johnson has been putting forward for some time - back in December he warned there are "colossal" spending cuts still to come.

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More on the appeal by a cross-party group of MPs for the decision not to make Lord Janner face child sex abuse charges to be reconsidered.

The Lib Dems' Tessa Munt is one of a cross-party group who signed a letter to the Times, external calling on the Director of Public Prosecutions to "immediately reverse her decision".

She tells Victoria Derbyshire that there is precedent for people suffering from advanced dementia to face trial and warns of a potential "complete failure of the system" if Lord Janner does not.

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LBC

Boris Johnson tells Election Call on LBC that the Grant Shapps story is "trivial by comparison with more free childcare [and] cuts in inheritance tax" which the Conservatives are proposing.

The Conservative election candidate and London mayor says: "Grant has knocked this thing on the head, he has said it is completely untrue and defamatory."

Conservative Party chairman Mr Shapps has denied claims he repeatedly edited entries about himself and other MPs on Wikipedia.

Mr Johnson adds that he is sure his own Wikipedia entry, external has been "edited by all sorts of people". He describes the website as:

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One of the big themes of this election is the strenuous efforts the parties’ campaign managers are making to avoid another Gillian Duffy moment (pictured above). This basically translates to stage-managed events – as has been discussed on both the BBC News Channel and the Today programme this morning.

Channel 4’s Cathy Newman has expressed her own frustrations about the style of the 2015 campaign, too. “I’m not advocating egg-throwing or punch-ups but I do wish all politicians would realise that in the process of striving for a flawless campaign they’re in danger of something far worse than antagonising the public – they risk boring us rigid,” she writes in the Telegraph, external. “Mr Cameron keeps promising to take to the streets and yet it is stage-managed audiences of hand-picked ‘voters’ that we keep seeing.”

She suggests the rules which broadcasters have to stick with during election campaigns don’t exactly help, either.

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Commenting on the recent deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean, Boris Johnson says: "You need to choke off the problem at source. You need to stop these people being put into boats."

Asked if this means the use of UK special forces in countries such as Libya, he responds with a question: "Isn't it the tradition that you don't discuss the use of special forces?"

He argues that "you need to do something" as there are "well-organised and ruthless people who are sending people to their deaths".

After his short stump speech, David Cameron starts taking questions. He says the east of England is “crucial” to his bid to be re-elected as prime minister. “Seats like Bedford, seats like Ipswich will be absolutely key to determining the outcome of this election.” Mr Cameron thinks voters in Bedford should feel “empowered” and invites them to back the Tories who, he points out, fell just 23 seats short of a majority in 2010.