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DUP leader and Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson is interviewed on the Today programme after yesterday’s resignation by Northern Ireland Health Minister Jim Wells over homophobic comments. He says there were “special circumstances” because Mr Wells' wife has been ill and his colleague was under “very considerable pressure”. When pressed, he makes clear Mr Wells’ views that same-sex couples see higher instances of abuse and neglect is not his party’s view.

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And now here’s a rather sun-dappled Nick Clegg on Breakfast, where he’s been explaining why he’ll turn to the party with the most seats first of all in the event of a hung parliament. “I think that simple, democratic approach which says that nonetheless the party with the biggest mandate should have the first right to try and assemble a government seems to me the democratic way of doing things,” he says.

There’s no constitutional requirement that this be the case - it’s a political decision of the Liberal Democrats to make this preference. But it’s one the majority of Brits agree with, as a Newsnight poll for ComRes released yesterday evening suggests. It found 55% think the leader with the most MPs should become prime minister if no single party wins a majority of MPs.

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The big political interview in today’s newspapers is that of the prime minister - well, you can’t get any bigger, really. And what David Cameron is saying is rather high-stakes stuff: not only does he declare that only winning an outright majority counts as “success”, he goes further than ever before in linking his party’s Labour-SNP warnings with the future of the country. “I have a duty to spend the next 10 days to win the election outright,” he tells the Times, external, adding: “10 days to save the United Kingdom.” No pressure, then.

The sudden appearance of red lines in the Lib Dem campaign has got some people wondering: what about those manifesto front page commitments, then? Nick Clegg, pushed on that question in his morning press conference in central London, says that the Lib Dems tried their best to get their 2010 priorities through. “We stuck very diligently and religiously and stubbornly to those front page priorities, and that’s what we’ll do again,” he says.

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Ed Miliband was interviewed last night by Russell Brand at the comedian's home. Sightings of the Labour leader leaving sparked some speculation, external that Mr Brand may "endorse" Mr Miliband despite him repeatedly urging young people not to vote. Read more.

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BBC Radio 5 Live’s Rachel Burden has had a brush with Boris Johnson on the campaign trail in Enfield. “I hope very much that people will focus on the issues,” he says when the inevitable leadership question comes up. He is more illuminating when it comes to the suggestion that he has banned bagpipes in the capital. “It’s total total tripe, it’s absolute b******* if I may say so,” the mayor responds, rather colourfully. He says City Hall has introduced a new code “saying if you’re playing an instrument with a lot of amplification… then be careful how you do it. Or something.” What about the suggestion from a senior Tory donor that there’s a “curious lack of energy and belief in the prime minister’s campaign”? That, Mr Johnson says, is “total nonsense”.

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On the Conservative apprenticeships plans, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury Priti Patel says the Libor money will be "a ring-fenced pot" specifically for 22 to 24-year-olds who've been out of work for at least six months. She refuses to accept though that by announcing it today she's acknowledging that this group have been ignored so far by the government.

“This is also about creating the right pro-enterprise economy… by focusing on long-term youth unemployment we are giving real opportunities to these young people," she says.

Asked about the need for an injection of passion by David Cameron yesterday into the Tory campaign - the "pumped up" speech - Ms Patel ducks and weaves again. "I actually think this is about being passionate about the future of our country and about the record we've achieved."

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Nick Clegg is using the word “disingenuous” rather a lot this morning to attack Labour and the Conservatives’ approach to spending plans. He says “we will not see the balancing of the books done on the back of the working-age poor”. That’s the Conservatives’ plan, he says, and it’s “completely unacceptable” to the Lib Dems in its current form.

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The Conservatives’ election strategy of warning a Labour government could rely on the SNP for survival appears to be working, a poll of 2,000 people by ORB suggests. It’s found that a potential deal between the two parties is making 25% of people less likely to vote for Labour and 16% more likely - a nine-point difference which the Independent reports, external could make a big difference. Among UKIP voters, the difference was 22%. That will boost Tory hopes that UKIP supporters could be persuaded back "home" to the Conservatives.

Nick Clegg’s second big ‘red line’ of the morning is his demand for a "Stability Budget" within the first 50 days of the next parliament. Speaking at the National Liberal Club, he says such a move is a “precondition of any coalition arrangement”. In political terms, it’s part of his bid to persuade voters that the Lib Dems “won’t let Labour risk your job or our economy with reckless borrowing”. In technical terms, such a Budget would set out detailed tax and welfare plans to balance the books. A comprehensive spending review would then be held in autumn 2015.

Until yesterday the Lib Dems had largely rebuffed any invitations to offer "red lines" on coalition deal-making, instead directing journalists to the policies on the front page of their manifesto. But now party leader Nick Clegg is using the phrase in his morning press conference, set to get under way at any moment. He’s expected to refer to two red line issues - a stability Budget within 50 days and this one: