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LBC

How are you going to do the deal? Nick Clegg is asked. That's concerning the coalition negotiations that are expected to take place after polling day.

Mr Clegg says he expects all the politicians involved will take a breather and digest what the electorate have decided but he believes that whichever is the biggest party "has the right" to begin negotiations with the other parties to form a coalition.

He adds that despite the fact that both Ed Miliband and David Cameron are "charging around" as if they are going to win, they aren't.

"They know they're not going to win, we know they are not going to win," he adds.

The Conservatives have dismissed Danny Alexander's claims, external as "desperate stuff" from the Liberal Democrats and insisted the proposals were "definitely not our policy".

A Tory spokesman said: "This set of policies was never proposed or supported by the prime minister and chancellor and would never be proposed or supported by the PM and chancellor."

BBC News Channel

Examining this morning's story on Conservative plans over benefit savings, the BBC's Norman Smith analyses what Danny Alexander has been saying (see entries from 08:14 onwards).

One of the big unanswered questions is: what are the welfare savings the Conservatives are going to find, he says.

"They have not denied in detail that these are measures they could look at," our assistant political editor points out.

And we do not know where the £12bn savings will come from, he says.

Norman says he wouldn't be surprised if child benefit became the area to make a significant proportion of the savings needed - and because senior Conservatives have said they will not touch pensioners' benefits, the disabled and vulnerable and will help those those seeking work, child benefit does not fall into any of those categories.

Annita McVeigh, the News Channel's presenter, tells viewers that Sajid Javid, the Culture Secretary, was due to appear to put the Conservative view on this story - but has had to pull out.

LBC

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Nick Clegg is on LBC for his usual weekly phone-in. He tells listeners there should have been a debate between the leaders of the four major parties – this includes Nigel Farage. But David Cameron “dithered and ducked and weaved and eventually we didn't have a debate”.

He adds it was galling that he wasn’t able to take part in the opposition leaders' debate on the BBC two weeks ago, that someone from the government should have been able to take part to defend the government’s record and that it was particularly unfair to say he was too scared to take part in the debates because that was far from being true.

David Morris:

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BBC Radio 4 Today

As the newspapers begin to make their predictions and support known, the Today programme asks why the Sun newspaper is split north and south of the border.

The Scottish Sun is backing the SNP, while its English sister warns about the dangers of that party and urges its readers to vote Conservative.

The polical editor of the Scottish Sun Andrew Nicholl lays out his paper's view.

So why now? Jim Naughtie asks him.

"Looking at the polling evidence now and considering the offer of the parties, it seems quite clear the nation is pretty much united behind the SNP," he says.

"People are crying out for them so we're backing them."

So are you just following the tide?

"The tide can run in the direction of what's right," Mr Nicholl says.

BBC Radio 4 Today

"You'll probably find out it's the teaboy in the party HQ," Mr Alexander says of sources quoted as "senior Lib Dem party officials" by The Times, in a story that claims Nick Clegg will struggle to get the formalauthorisation needed, external from his party’s MPs, governing bodies and two thirds of his grassroots members at a special meeting -if he wants to do another deal with the Tories post election.

The newspaper says senior figures in the party would consider voting down a Conservative Queen’s Speech.

BBC Radio 4 Today

Danny Alexander says that the ideas he is talking about today were put to him by Conservative ministers - and he says they are obviously the sorts of things that Conservatives think about when they consider how to find savings in the welfare system.

The Chief Secretary to the Treasury adds that a Lib Dem red line in coalition negotiations would be to raise the income tax threshold to £12,500.

Alastair:

BBC Radio 4 Today

Mr Alexander defends his leak to the Guardian, external of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) policy document proposing cuts to child benefit in 2012.

He says: "There are ideas that have been put to me over the years some of which I am discussing this morning…that I personally do not think are acceptable that I have said no to over the last few years.

"And when you look at the parts of the welfare system that remain within scope, if you like, of the Tories' massive cuts plan, child benefit remains… one of the big building blocks of the welfare system and so I think it is only fair to the British people to explain what are some of the ideas that might involve."

Ruth, Sydenham:

BBC Radio 4 Today

It is extraordinary in an election campaign that the Conservatives have said they can find £12bn of savings in government spending but have said nothing about how they have arrived at that figure, Mr Alexander says.

And yet they have said nothing about the effects of cuts to child benefits, or working age benefits to hard-pressed families or disabled people in this country if those were the benefits they tried to target, he adds.