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Ed Miliband's wife, Justine, "rolled her eyes" in disbelief when he told her about his teenage girl fan club, dubbed the "Milifandom", the Evening Standard reports., external

The Labour leader told the paper: “I think she’s a bit bemused by it, to be honest. She thinks it might be a case of mistaken identity.”

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Turning our attention back to Ed Balls' speech earlier, the shadow chancellor reiterated the party's position on any deals with the SNP, saying there would be "no coalition... no deals, no agreements...it's not going to happen".

"We want to show - not by setting Scottish nationalism against English nationalism, but showing we can all work together - we can have a stronger and fairer future together. And the SNP don't want that - and that is why we have been absolutely clear consistently, we're not going to get into any of that talk of deals, pacts, agreements, confidence and supply, any of it. Nothing's changed."

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The Conservative election campaign is being discussed on BBC Radio 4's World at One programme, following reports of concerns among senior Tories that it's been a bit dull.

Conservative peer Lord Bell, PR guru and former adviser to Margaret Thatcher, says the Conservatives decided to run "a low key, no-risk campaign" from the outset, and now they've "turned the heat up", pulling out the likes of Boris Johnson and John Major, Thatcherite policies, and stepping up the rhetoric.

"And we're going to a sort of crescendo at the end," he argues.

Lord Bell notes that one in five voters only made their mind up on polling day in the 1992 election, and adds that if this is repeated on 7 May the election result may be very different than the polls suggest. He predicts a Conservative majority.

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The former Lib Dem leader joins campaigning candidate Jo Swinson in East Dunbartonshire.

Ed Miliband isn't the only one of his shadow front bench team to making a speech today. The shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, has been on the campaign trail in Glasgow with Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy, and warned that a vote for the SNP makes it more likely that David Cameron will remain as prime minister.

Mr Balls also said fiscal autonomy for Scotland would lead to spending cuts and tax rises.

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Nick Clegg has been speaking to Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2. He says he's never been "interested in power for power's sake" and there are many things which are "more important in life than politics".

The Lib Dem leader was asked whether he had been "dazzled" by the title of deputy prime minister during the coalition talks.

He replied: "I think if you have a coalition it's quite important the leaders of the parties that are in that coalition are not bogged down in daily departmental paperwork. I think it's right to keep your hands free so that you can make sure that the government works as a whole, and that the deals are struck, and that balance is struck, and that arguments are resolved, and that's what I've done as deputy prime minister.

"But frankly you could call me Mary Jane and it would be all the same to me - well, not quite of course."

"Pro-EU, pro-immigration, pro-gender equality" - Waleed Ghani sums up the policies of the Whig Party. Calling itself the oldest progressive party, the Whig Party says it's back. "The immigration levels we have at the moment are sensible and sustainable, and they enrich our country," Mr Ghani says.

UKIP's Suzanne Evans is incredulous - thousands of parents couldn't get a school place this year, she says. Mr Ghani replies: "That's not an immigration issue, that's a public services issue."

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The latest in our foodie series, Campaign Cooks. Today Nicola Sturgeon makes scones.

Alex Hilton, director of Generation Rent, which campaigns for the rights of private tenants, has reacted to Ed Miliband's housing plans and he doesn't seem impressed.

A Liberal Democrat general election candidate has been suspended by the party over allegations that he falsified his council nomination papers.

Patrick Haveron, also the parliamentary candidate for South West Surrey, has been accused of falsifying his papers for the Waverley Borough Council election.

But because nominations have closed he will still appear on both ballot papers as a Lib Dem.

A party spokesman said: "Patrick Haveron has been suspended by the party pending the outcome of investigations into his nomination papers for the Waverley Borough Council election.

"He has been suspended from the Liberal Democrats and no longer represents the Liberal Democrats in either election."

Our colleagues at BBC Radio Berkshire have spoken to the aforementioned signatory 413 - a technology firm called Aurum Solutions, based in Wokingham.

They have confirmed that they have asked the Daily Telegraph to remove their name from the letter.

They say a staff member clicked on a link in an email which, they say, came from Conservative peer Karren Brady - and they think that this automatically registered their support.

They maintain they are politically neutral and would not have signed the letter by choice.

"The Labour Party are absolutely determined to build on greenfield sites. They don't care about protecting our countryside and that's why they can build so quickly because it's much easier for a developer to put a house on a fresh virgin green field as opposed to clean up the land," says UKIP's Suzanne Evans. "We think we've got an environmental responsibility in addition to a responsibility to solve the wider housing crisis."

"We're in favour of a brownfield first policy," Labour's Emma Reynolds insists