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Andrew Neil is picking apart the letter which the Tories say is signed by 5,000 small businesses giving the party their backing. It makes for rather uncomfortable watching, but David Gauke refuses to accept the letter is a stunt organised by Conservative central office. Asked about signatory 413, a business which claims they never signed the letter, Mr Gauke replies: "I'm not in a position to discuss signatory 413." He insists: "The important point is the substance here."

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Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury David Gauke says that if a tenant and landlord want to enter into a three-year fixed rent period that's up to them, but Labour's policy of imposing that could actually be damaging. It would create uncertainty for landlords and start affecting supply, he argues. "This might be a policy that has the best of intentions," he says, but "if you damage the quality and quantity of rental supply then the people who will suffer are those who want to get onto the housing market".

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Four weeks ago you said: "We don't want to introduce rent controls", Andrew Neil points out to shadow housing minister Emma Reynolds.

"I was talking about 1970s rent controls when the state used to set the levels," she replies. "We want to make sure we have a more stable and secure rental sector...The initial market rent would be set by the market in negotiation between the landlord and the tenant - we are not suggesting for a minute that the state intervenes to set that rent at the start of the tenancy."

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"I think Ed's having an excellent campaign. He's showing he's got the passion, the vision, the big ideas," shadow housing minister Emma Reynolds tells the Daily Politics. How surprised were you he's become a teen sensation? "Well... it's not that surprising..." she says, a little nervously.

On the subject of housing, she insists Labour's plans aren't "a bureaucratic nightmare". She says "on the contrary", Labour's new register of landlords will actually make it easier for local authorities to clamp down on rogue individuals.

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What did you want to do when you were seven, asks a younger member of the audience. A bus conductor, Ed Miliband replies.

If housing is so important, why has it only just been tacked on to Labour's pledge card and treated as an afterthought, asks BBC political correspondent Iain Watson.

When your opponents have nothing to say about your ideas they resort to questioning "why now?", Ed Miliband responds. He says Labour has been "making the weather" with "positive ideas" for changing the country - and housing is an essential part of that, he adds.

This is a fundamental issue of fairness, Ed Miliband says of his plans to cut tuition fees from £9,000 a year to £6,000.

Labour shouldn't be opponents of Right to Buy but we mustn't end up with a situation where there's a shortage of homes, he says. That's the problem with the Conservatives' plan. The answer is to build more homes which Labour will do, Mr Miliband adds.

This election is not about any one politician or party, it's about you the people, says Ed Miliband. "This is your time, this is your moment," he says in a direct message to voters.

"I say, let's make Britain work for working families once again."

Time for questions from activists and the gathered media.

A Conservative council candidate has been suspended after writing that she could not respect Ed Miliband because he is Jewish.

Gulzabeen Afsar, who is standing as a council candidate in the ward of Littleover in Derby, said on Facebook that she could never support the "al yahud" - the Arabic term for Jew.

A Conservative Party spokesman said: "This comment was offensive and wrong. There is no place in our party for these comments or attitudes and Ms Afsal has had her party membership suspended pending a full disciplinary hearing."

Ms Afsal will still appear on the ballot paper on 7 May marked as a Conservative candidate.

Unveiling a sixth pledge on Labour's pledge card, Ed Miliband promises to put first-time buyers first, by abolishing stamp duty on homes under £300,000.

The Labour leader said the move would be paid for by a clampdown on tax avoidance by landlords, estimated to be more than "£500m a year" and by increasing stamp duty by at least 3% for overseas home buyers.

"In the Britain we believe in, houses should be lived in by families, not bought up by speculators."

One of the biggest burdens facing working people is the challenge of finding a home, says Ed Miliband. "There's nothing more British than the dream of home ownership" but that dream is increasingly out of people's reach, he says, as he accuses the government of failing to build enough homes.

Labour, he adds, is proposing "stable" three-year tenancies, a cap on rent increases in the private rental market, and 200,000 new homes a year by 2020.

Britain can and must do better than this and with a Labour government it will, says Ed Miliband. He praises the party's "positive" and "optimistic" campaign, before listing several of the party's plans, including on the economy, immigration and the NHS.

"Those with the broadest shoulders should bear the greatest burden, a principle we know and this Tory government will never know," he adds.

There's just 10 days to go until the election, says the Labour leader, as he sets out to remind people "what's at stake".

"We're campaigning for a Britain where all working people are rewarded once again," he says to applause.

Ed Miliband is on his feet and begins by inviting a round of applause for some of Labour's parliamentary candidates present. "Apologies to anyone I missed out," he says, prompting the crowd to point out he has - two people, in fact. "Good job everyone," Mr Miliband says.