Summary

  • David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg were back on the campaign trail following the leaders' Question Time

  • There has been a lot of focus on what their "red lines" would be in any coalition deal

  • Nigel Farage told Radio 4's Today that he could see UKIP providing votes to a Conservative/Lib Dem coalition

  • Party leaders in Wales have taken part in a live television debate

  • There are six days left until the general election

  1. Have your saypublished at 09:23

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    Jason, Northampton:

    I don't feel the election campaign is back into life. The amount of repetition of what they said compared to previous campaigns, it bores me now. Doesn't also help that I have already voted via postal vote.

  2. Meeting and greetingpublished at 09:21

    Newsnight correspondent tweets:

  3. Burnham: It is up to the SNP to decide to support Labourpublished at 09:20

    BBC Radio 5 Live

    Labour's Andy Burnham tells BBC Radio 5 Live's Your Call his party is still fighting for a majority, that Ed Miliband did set out its case - and that it will be up to the SNP whether it will support a Labour Queen's Speech, or bring it down as they did in 1979 ushering in Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative party.

  4. Limbering uppublished at 09:18

    Press Association journalist

  5. Last night's performancepublished at 09:17

    BBC News Channel

    Michael Gove

    Tory Chief Whip Michael Gove says the audience reaction across the country showed David Cameron won last night's debate because he gave the most honest answers, and was "assured and commanding, every inch a prime minister".

    One audience member asked the prime minister to consider the moral dimension, presenter Annita McVeigh prompts.

    "Having worked with David over the last 10 years, there's a moral dimension to every decision that he takes," the chief whip says.

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    David has sought to govern this country as a modern compassionate Conservative. He recognises that unless the pounds and pence are in place, you cannot invest in helping to alleviate pain and suffering and to make opportunity better for everyone in this country."

  6. Campaign round uppublished at 08:55

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    BBC correspondents react to current campaign issues:

  7. Exciting stuffpublished at 08:51

    Editor, Andrew Marr Show

  8. Your Call: Have you a question for Andy Burnham?published at 08:50

    BBC Radio 5 Live

    Labour's Andy Burnham

    It's #FridayTakeover on 5 live, which means every question put to a politician comes from you.

    Today, it's the turn of Labour's Andy Burnham to take your calls from 9am.

    Call 0500 909 693, text 85058, find us on social media, external and watch the programme.

  9. Analysis: UKIP positionpublished at 08:50

    Robin Brant
    Political Correspondent

    Nigel Farage has conceded that UKIP support has dipped in some areas during the final weeks of the general election campaign.

    The UKIP leader told BBC Radio 4 "there are areas where UKIP has weakened" over recent weeks, but he insisted that people considering his party should resist the urge to support the Conservatives in what's known as tactical voting.

    Mr Farage has given conflicting views on tactical voting throughout the campaign, at one point saying UKIP supporters should vote Tory in areas where UKIP can't win.

    But this morning, when pushed on what his supporters in non target seats should do, he insisted that "doesn't make sense".

    The UKIP leader also restated that his party would not go into any formal coalition after the election, but instead said he could support the Conservatives or a Conservative/Lib Dem coalition.

    In the past he has said the price for that support would be an "immediate" referendum, within a year of next week's vote, but today he said just a referendum (which has been promised by the Conservatives for 2017).

    He insisted that defence spending would be a key issue for UKIP MPs elected next week, saying they would "campaign" for an increase to 2% of GDP.

    But he did not say it would be a red line issue in any negotiations.

    Nigel Farage also pointed to the next general election in 2020 as being significant for UKIP.

    He repeated his belief that the party can come second in swathes of areas across the north of England this time round and build a base to challenge Labour at the next election.

  10. BBC 'an anachronism'published at 08:44

    BBC Radio 4 Today

    Nigel Farage doesn’t think the BBC has treated him particularly fairly.

    He says Ofcom has stated there are four major parties in UK politics and “while it was delightful to talk to that audience” last night - he is talking about his own question the leader TV programme which aired after the BBC News at 10pm - it “happened really rather late at night”.

    He said the BBC hasn’t abided by Ofcom because “it isn’t bound". He calls the BBC an anachronism.

  11. Get involvedpublished at 08:43

    Text: 61124

    Daily Politics viewer:

    The Leeds audience was right about the culpability of the last Labour government on the economy. Whilst the bankers may have been the "instrument" of the "bust" it was presided over by Labour who did nothing to discourage the reckless personal borrowing creating debt of £1 trillion!

  12. Circumspect exit pollspublished at 08:42

    Columnist, Independent on Sunday

  13. Farage: Clegg can stay as deputy prime minsiterpublished at 08:42

    BBC Radio 4 Today

    If Mr Clegg wants to remain deputy prime minister that’s fine but he will have to concede on a referendum on the EU for the British people, says Mr Farage.

    “I can see the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats in coalition with UKIP giving confidence and supply,” he adds.

    Aside from a referendum on Europe, Mr Farage says other priorities include defence spending and genuine deficit reduction.

  14. Farage: Won't help, can't help Labourpublished at 08:41

    BBC Radio 4 Today

    John Humphrys and Nigel Farage in the Today studio

    "I won’t help Labour, I can’t help Labour" Mr Farage says about any deal with Labour leader Ed Miliband. "There are no circumstances [where a deal could be done] given that [Mr] Miliband has turned his back on a referendum."

    The UKIP leader adds:

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    I don’t want UKIP to go into coalition… I do not want a ministerial car but I do want to drive the agenda and if we have arithmetically a position where we can have influence on the basis of confidence and supply we would do that provided we could get a full free and fair referendum for this country."

  15. Voting intentionspublished at 08:35

    BBC Radio 4 Today

    Asked about tactical voting, Mr Farage says he doesn’t think if he told UKIP voters what to do they would listen.

    "Actually what you see is half of UKIP voters if you ask them to vote for someone else - half wouldn’t vote at all and the other half would vote either Labour or Conservative," he says

    When Mark Reckless won Rochester only a third of the UKIP vote came from Conservatives, the rest came from Labour or elsewhere, Mr Farage adds.

    Asked about comments made by Tory Chief Whip Michael Gove regarding tactical voting, Mr Farage says if Mr Gove says to Conservative voters in Heywood and Middleton "we clearly haven’t got a chance, vote UKIP" then "that would be very interesting and would be a change of the political position".

    And he adds:

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    Mr Cameron won’t even talk to me, I’m a member of the lower orders remember.

  16. Pumped uppublished at 08:33

    Political sketch writer, Telegraph

  17. Tactical votingpublished at 08:32

    BBC Radio 4 Today

    The percentage of the UKIP vote that are former Tories are in the minority, Mr Farage says, and most of them came to us in 2010,11 and 12 and are not going to go back.

    "But our growth area is with Labour voters and I think if it is seen that Mr Miliband simply cannot become prime minister without committing that lie, then suddenly, those seats in the Midlands and the North, in which we are the challengers, are seats that we can now win," he says.

    "We will need some tactical voting from the Conservatives to do it and I understand that, I completely understand that."

  18. Going placespublished at 08:25

    Political Editor, MailOnline tweets

  19. Farage: Miliband has turned his back on British voterspublished at 08:22

    BBC Radio 4 Today

    Ed Miliband has completely turned his back on the idea of giving the British people a say and I have a feeling after last night, Mr Miliband cannot be prime minister, UKIP leader Nigel Farage says.

    He tells John Humphrys that he thinks it would be the greatest lie of modern British politics for him to now to try to form a coalition with the SNP,

    "I think the game has changed a bit last night and I think UKIP’s role in all of this may have changed a bit after last night," says Mr Farage.

    "What has happened is the percentage of 2010 Labour voters who say they are going to vote UKIP has nearly trebled, there has been a shift in the polls."

  20. UKIP leader faces John Humphryspublished at 08:21

    BBC Radio 4 Today

    Nigel Farage on Today