Victoria Derbyshire

Watch voters on the Victoria Derbyshire programme, hosted by Joanna Gosling, give their verdicts on the latest campaigning by party leaders.

Dan Voaden:

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Another question taken from a listener's tweet: Will you rule out calling for a Scottish referendum in the course of the next Parliament?

Nicola Sturgeon responds that there cannot be another referendum without the permission of the Scottish people, that there are no plans for another referendum, and no proposal on the table.

"What is absolutely beyond any shadow of a doubt, is this election is not about independence, so no matter how many seats the SNP win next Thursday, we would not take that as any endorsement for a referendum," she says.

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A fascinating exchange is triggered by a tweet from a listener: "Would you be willing to bring down a minority Labour government?"

The SNP is not going into Westminster to bring down governments or to stop budgets going through, Nicola Sturgeon says.

We're going in to get progressive policies through, she tells the listener. She says it's possible to get a Labour government to change their mind using the Fixed Term Parliaments Act.

There are "lots we agree on, there are things we disagree on," she says - responsible spending increases, rather than spending cuts, are one point she cites.

Would you vote down a Labour budget? asks presenter Martha Kearney. We'd seek to change it, Nicola Sturgeon answers.

And she says the party's experience of governing as a minority (in Holyrood from 2007 to 2011) would be valuable.

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SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon is on Radio 4's World at One today, answering questions from listeners.

One caller - from Buckingham - asks whether the SNP has frightened Labour off coalition, by overplaying their hand.

"We are holding out the hand of friendship to others across the UK," she says, so that parties can work together to improve services such as the NHS, and make Westminster work better.

Simon, Manchester:

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The Guardian newspaper has come out in support of Labour, external.

The paper supported the Lib Dems, external in the 2010 general election.

The viewing figures are in for last night's Question Time and they are...drum roll, please... 4.3million or 21.1% audience share. So, quite a bit less than Poldark although probably not too shabby for Question Time...

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Speaking to Peter Allen on Radio 5 Live, Margaret Hodge has defended her own tax affairs after accusations that she has benefitted from shares which were held in the tax haven of Liechtenstein, although she has been a vehement critic of tax avoidance and evasion.

Ms Hodge said that she never controlled the trust which held the shares and paid tax once the shares came onshore. She insisted she had not benefitted during the time the shares were offshore.

She said "I have always paid tax to the full."

Her family came from Germany and Austria and after World War II, her family was dispersed across Europe.

The trust was set up by an aunt in France and an uncle in America. She said her relatives shouldn't have set up the scheme but repeated she never benefitted when the shares were offshore.

Asked if she felt she could serve again as chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, Ms Hodge said she was hoping Labour will win the election so "it won't be up for grabs because it will be held by a member of the Opposition".

"But I don't believe that I have acted in any way inappropriately," she said.

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Despite 14 years of economic growth, the deficit was 3% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - so why didn't Labour do more to protect the public finances? Andrew Neil asks Labour's Hilary Benn.

Mr Benn says Labour spent a lot of time investing in public services such as schools and hospitals “because people were fed up with their children sharing textbooks in schools with outside toilets - that sort of thing”.

“We were paying down the nation’s debt before the financial crisis,” he adds.

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Nick Clegg was the most effective of the night but the problem he has is “people have made their mind up,” Andrew Pierce of the Daily Mail tells the Daily Politics.

He adds: “The first question was on university tuition fees and you sort of knew that was what it was going to be. That will be on his grave stone because he will forever regret that ridiculous, immature decision and people have decided that he is dishonest.

"He is the loser small partners of coalitions are always the losers and it showed again last night. Even though I thought he was quite effective.”

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David Cameron has been very disappointing throughout the campaign, Andrew Pierce of the Daily Mail tells the Daily Politics.

"But he gave his best performance in the Leader’s Question Time last night," he says.

"He was in trouble when asked about where the welfare cuts were going to come from," Mr Pierce says. "But he was assertive and he engaged with the audience and it was probably his best performance in the nick of time."