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“I’m astonished that he can still use 'the mess I was left, the mess this lot left', every five minutes,” Zoe Williams of the Guardian tells the Daily Politics. “It’s just a really boring formation and it’s kind of nonsense. It doesn’t really mean any sense, it makes him kind of robotic and programmed.

“(Conservative party campaign strategist) Lynton Crosby’s whole theory is treat everybody as if they are only listening 20% [of the time],” she adds.

Meanwhile, Ed Miliband seemed incapable of taking on audience members about the causes of the global financial crash and Labour’s spending record, she said.

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Labour leader Ed Miliband has been accused of being "infantile" by Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg following last night's Question Time.

Mr Clegg said it was "ludicrous" for Mr Miliband to pretend he could claim to have won the election, if he did not have a majority.

"It's just such a foolish thing to say," Mr Clegg said.

"If you don't win a majority and you have to govern with another party, you don't have the democratic right from the British people to insist on implementing your manifesto in full without any compromises.

"I know that Ed Miliband describes every compromise as a betrayal, but I don't.

"I'm the only politician left who says sometimes just as in life in politics you've got to be grown up, there's got to be give and take because that's the right thing for the country as a whole."

Comedian Russell Brand has urged people to vote for the Green Party in Brighton.

He backed Caroline Lucas, external , who is standing for re-election in Brighton Pavilion, and said the Greens are the party he would want to run the country "after the revolution".

The self-styled radical met Labour leader Ed Miliband earlier this week too, and questioned him on his policies, external , with the video published on his You Tube channel The Trews.

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Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg has insisted he will not lead his party into government without clear commitments from a larger party for full and fair funding of the NHS.

Speaking in Manchester, Mr Clegg called on Labour to match the pledge:

Nigel Howells:

The Conservative History Group, external reminds us that the 1st Duke of Wellington, victor of Waterloo and twice Tory Prime Minister, was born in Dublin #OnThisDay, external in 1769.

And they quote this gem:

During his audience session in Leeds, David Cameron described the general election as "career-defining" in an apparent slip of the tongue.

The prime minister immediately corrected himself and said it was a "country-defining" election.

Mr Cameron was speaking in a question-and-answer session when he said: "Whatever your views and whichever party you support, please make sure you do vote on May 7.

"This is a real career-defining...country-defining election that we face now in less than a week's time."

Labour's press team tweeted: "Revealing Cameron slip up at Q&A - says the election is "career defining" ... It's all about Dave."

It must be getting somewhat dog-eared by now. David Cameron has produced That Note again. "It's getting a bit tatty," Mr Cameron admits.

Yes, the copy of Liam Byrne's letter is being flourished. Mr Byrne, former chief secretary to the Treasury, left the note behind on his desk for his successor in 2010. It says: "I'm afraid there's no money."

"We were forecast in Britain to have the biggest budget deficit anywhere in the world," Mr Cameron tells the audience. "What that meant was we were spending beyond our means.

"We have reduced the size of that overdraft by half, but we've still got an overdraft.

"If we go on running that ovedraft we will be building up debts for your children and my children, that they won't be able to pay, and that's not fair."

And he says that is why there have been spending reductions, which were not easy.