Here's the GDP figures in for the first three months of the year. Growth has slowed significantly, far worse than expected, from 0.6% in the final quarter of 2014 to 0.3% in the first quarter of this year

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Nigel Farage is fighting for election in South Thanet, but lobbyist Peter Bingle is already writing what reads rather like his political obituary. The UKIP leader has been suffering from back pain that has dented his party’s campaign, we learned at the weekend, and now Mr Bingle has concluded the end is nigh. “I sense we are observing the last days of Nigel Farage,” hewrites for Total Politics, external. “He reminds me of that wonderful character Reggie Perrin. So perhaps on the morning of 8 May we will find his clothes on the beach at Ramsgate? If so I will miss him.”

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Yesterday’s “pumped up” speech from David Cameron has left the Telegraph’s sketchwriter Michael Deacon a little dazed. “Dear Lord,” he writes, external. “The intensity. The defiance. It was like watching him lead the chanting at his beloved Upton Villa.” The Conservative leader, who last week had delivered a speech “with all the dynamism of a used tea bag”, was now in full-on shouting mode. “I was having to hold my hair down to stop it blowing clean off my scalp,” Deacon adds. And that was before he responded to a journalist’s question by saying he felt “BLOODY LIVELY!” The capital letters make it much more vivid, don’t they? As does Deacon’s closing comparison of Mr Cameron:

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It has the undesirable distinction of being the most economically unproductive constituency in the UK. But there’s a lot more to Ynys Mon - or Angelsey - which depends on big companies and seasonal business to keep things ticking over. “I’d really like the government to make investment in this island,” says Wyn Party, the manager of Holyhead’s ferry port. “We want to invest, we just want to do it quickly.” To listen to squawking seagulls, and unhappy voters, click here.

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The Tories, according to the Spectator's Isabel Hardman on the Election Today programme, are viewing the Liberal Democrats’ prospects in another coalition with rather more trepidation than they have in the past. It’s the habit of Lib Dem backbenchers of rebelling which worries them. “The Conservatives now are working on the basis that only the Lib Dems they make ministers will be able to support them on bills, which really reduces the numbers,” she explains. The big question over the Lib Dems’ campaigning is how many of the 57 seats they won in 2010 will be defended. “The main problem the Lib Dems have is many people don’t trust them - they seem to have offered things they don’t deliver,” the Guardian’s Owen Jones says.

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DUP leader Peter Robinson says it’s possible that his party could work with “either” Labour or the Conservatives if we end up with a hung parliament. Their spending plans for Northern Ireland, totalling around £10bn, are virtually identical, he says. What about the possibility of spending cuts hitting his voters, however? He makes clear he doesn’t like the sound of the Tories’ proposals. “I cannot see how £12bn could be cut from welfare in a way that would enjoy our support,” Mr Robinson says. That raises the possibility that the distance between the DUP and the Conservatives has grown over the course of this campaign. It's not a point Mr Robinson disagrees with. What really worries the DUP leader is the Tories’ approach to the SNP. “I’m hoping that is more to do with the campaign team than the policymakers in the party,” he says, before adding:

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There are red lines and then there are red lines. I think this one about a stability budget is a bit more squiggly than yesterday’s one on education. There's a bit of room to shuffle around. Nick Clegg's just saying, ‘I want a clear timetable to balance the books’ - not ‘I want it done by such and such a date.’ And despite all this talk of red lines, Mr Clegg knows he’ll be in the negotiation business if there is a hung parliament.

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