Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood could enter into a deal to put Labour in power - even if the SNP was not involved, the Welsh Ask the Leader broadcast will hear.

Leanne Wood refused to rule out that option as she answered questions from voters for a BBC TV special in Cardiff - to be broadcast in Wales at 22:45 BST.

She said she would talk to Ed Miliband if she could secure a better deal for Wales.

Ms Wood also said it was highly irresponsible of the Labour leader to rule out a deal with the SNP, saying it could open the door to a Conservative government.

While the programme hasn't been broadcast yet, our report offers a flavour of Nigel Farage's performance during his Ask the Leader session. It saw him insisting that a referendum vote to stay in the EU would not make UKIP "redundant".

Scots rejected independence, yet the SNP has gained support, Mr Farage said, pointing out that his rivals had hitherto failed to deliver a referendum.

Both sides in any referendum campaign must be equally funded, while "broadcasters must have an ombudsman to make sure there is a proper, even debate", Mr Farage said.

Earlier, heaccused the BBC of biastowards the “political establishment” in the coverage of this election campaign.

Nick Robinson
Political editor

Will tonight's Question Time be remembered as the moment Ed Miliband stumbled or David Cameron dodged? Nick Robinson offers his verdict.

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon will be winding down after her Ask the Leader session, broadcast live in Scotland. However, Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood and UKIP leader Nigel Farage recorded half-hour programmes earlier. Ask Leanne Wood will be broadcast on BBC1 in Wales at 22:45 BST, at the same time as Ask Nigel Farage will be broadcast on BBC1 in England. The programme featuring the UKIP leader goes out in Wales at 23:10 BST.

Lucy Powell, Labour campaign manager, says she is very pleased with the way Ed Miliband dealt with tough questions. "He answered honestly and straightforwardly," she says. "He showed strength but also humour and humility." It was a shame, she argues, that there hadn't been a head-to-head debate between the Labour and Conservative leaders.

David Cowling, editor BBC Political Research, has been digesting the day's polls.

He says: "ComRes, having registered Conservative leads in its three earlier campaign polls, puts the Tories neck and neck with Labour on 35% each this time. YouGov suggests a one-point Conservative lead (35% versus 34%).

"However, the drama came with MORI’s five-point Conservative lead – 35% as against 30% for Labour. Some interest was aroused when its entrails revealed 63% of 2010 Labour voters remaining loyal to the party, compared with much higher numbers in other polls. A breakthrough for the Conservative campaign or a detail that provokes doubt about the findings? I suspect the latter but we shall see.

"The instant ICM poll assessing the performances of the three leaders on Question Time suggests 44% thought David Cameron had come out on top, compared with 38% who nominated Ed Miliband and 19% Nick Clegg.

Ben Steven:

No straight answers from Nicola Sturgeon again. She continues to blame others rather than take responsibility herself.

Former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown believes Nick Clegg has demonstrated why he deserves a place in government. His performance, he argues, shows why he is the man to give the country stability in uncertain times.

With Nicola Sturgeon facing the audience, here's a reminder of the Scottish National Party's key pledges.

Ms Sturgeon says health spending in Scotland and NHS staff numbers have reached record levels since the SNP came to power. “But I am not the kind of politician to stand here and say ‘job done’. We always need to work to improve our health service," she adds.

The Greens weren't involved in the debate but the Green Party's Jillian Creasy is in the spin-room. She says there wasn't much to separate the three party leaders as they all talked about "cuts and austerity". She was much more complimentary about the audience though, calling them "great".

Reality Check

When the PM was on stage a while back, he said two million jobs had been created since the last election. The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics , externalsaid that there were around 31.05 million employed people in the UK. At the time of the last election there were around 29.05 million people in work.

So that’s an increase of two million. However, this figure looks at the number of people in work, which isn’t quite the same as the number of jobs. For example, some people may have more than one job. There aren’t any official statistics on the number of jobs created.