SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has welcomed a certain newspaper's endorsement of her party, calling it "another boost" for the SNP campaign.

The Scottish Sun has come out in favour of the SNP in this election, saying it will "fight harder for Scotland's interests at Westminster".

Adopting a Star Wars theme, the Scottish Sun's front page shows Ms Sturgeon as Princess Leia, with a headline reading "Stur Wars".

Asked whether she was pleased to be portrayed as the Princess, Ms Sturgeon said: "I think I'll carry on being leader of SNP and campaign hard."

She added: "I welcome the endorsement of the (Scottish) Sun. It's another boost for the SNP campaign, the first tabloid newspaper to support us in this election.

"But the support that really matters is the support of people right across Scotland and we'll be working hard every single day between now and next Thursday to say to people, if you want Scotland's voice to be heard, the only way to ensure that is to vote SNP and to send a big team of SNP MPs to stand up for Scotland and to stand up for better politics at Westminster, for the benefit of people right across the UK."

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The latest opinion poll from Ipsos Mori has given the Conservatives a five point lead over Labour.

The latest numbers go like this:

Conservatives: 35%

Labour: 30%

UKIP: 10%

Lib Dems: 8%

Greens: 8%

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The Chancellor George Osborne has told BBC London 949 that the claim that the Tories were planning to limit child benefit under plans for more cuts was actually in a report commissioned by the Lib Dem Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander.

Speaking at a housing development in Croydon this morning he said: "This is a three-year-old document of policy options that was commissioned by the Chief Secretary himself.

"We haven't put into practice any of these options, we don't support them. We didn't support them then and we don't support them in the future. But there is a clear choice in this election.

"Ed Miliband wants to put up the benefits bill and that means higher taxes for working people. David Cameron and the Conservatives will cut taxes for working people and we think savings can be made in the welfare system."

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Asked about the possible resistance Nick Clegg will face amongst his own MPs to a coalition with the Conservatives as reported by The Times today, Mr Clegg says: “I don’t actually think that article says anything I don’t know and don’t believe myself, which is that any decision by the Liberal Democrats, of course, will be taken collectively and we’d all have to agree it.”

He adds: “I actually, funnily enough, share a lot of the wariness that is reflected in that article, given the ups and downs the Liberal Democrats have had.

"Of course, you would tread warily by entering into another coalition but we’re not going to rule out another coalition with either Labour or the Conservatives because we are pluralists; we believe in the give and take of grown up politics, particularly when no-one wins outright which is what is going to happen next Thursday.”

Labour’s Harriet Harman has responded to Danny Alexander's claims that the Conservatives floated the idea of cutting child benefit in 2012.

She says: “Really this just proves that this is absolutely what they’ll do. I remember before the last election in 2010 they were warning they would put up VAT and they were wriggling around and saying they wouldn’t and that’s exactly what they did.

"That was the start of the hit on living standards that people have seen all the way along.

"The thing about the Conservatives is that you know people at the top are going to be absolutely fine but families who are working hard and trying to make ends meet – it’s going to set their family finances further back."

Victoria Derbyshire

The BBC's assistant political editor Norman Smith is chatting to guests on the Victoria Derbyshire show about the election campaign - and the programme is revisiting election campaigns from the past.

There's the 1992 election gathering in Sheffield with Neil Kinnock, rallying Labour supporters.

There's the moment Gordon Brown revealed his views on Gillian Duffy, who he met during the 2010 camapign.

And there's the moment David Cameron mixed up his football teams during this campaign...

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The Lib Dem leader is asked about Danny Alexander's leak to the Guardian over child benefit.

Nick Clegg says: "I share Danny's intense frustration, verging on anger, that the Conservatives think a week before the election that they are going to take the equivalent of £1,500 off eight million of the most vulnerable families in this country, and they can't even be bothered to spell out to the families with folk who are disabled, with children, those who have fallen on hard times. They can't even be bothered to spell out what their plans involve."

Mr Clegg adds: "The Conservatives want to take the equivalent of pretty well what we spend on disability living allowance.

"So if it's not child benefit, is it then disability living allowance? It's about exactly the amount we spend on employment support allowance. Are they going to scrap that altogether?"

Sky News

Earlier, Conservative Culture Secretary Sajid Javid told Sky News that the welfare proposals that Danny Alexander was outlining this morning would not have been supported by the David Cameron or George Osborne.

"Our principles are very clear when it comes to welfare: it is there to help people, especially to help people get back into work, but also to support the disabled, to support pensioners - and those principles will not change," he says.