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Mr Cameron is asked whether disability living allowance is safe over the next five years? "Disability living allowance is being replaced at the moment by Personal Independence Payments," he says. "Disability living allowance has needed reform for a long time... it will lead over time to some savings, because it's a better, targeted benefit."

BBC Breakfast

David Cameron is challenged on welfare. He says he is “absolutely clear” on child benefit. “We are keeping it, not cutting it,” he says.

Mr Cameron says the government made a difficult change to take child benefit away from better off couples, "but I believe strongly in child benefit. It’s very important for families' budgets to be able to plan."

He says there is a “bigger point” here, however. The welfare system still needs to be reformed while ensuring work always pays, while at the same time cutting people’s taxes.

He says Labour leader Ed Miliband "stumbled" on the issue of cuts at Thursday's Leaders' Question Time because he couldn't say where spending cuts will come from.

“He is going to dip into your wallet and cut your pay,” Mr Cameron warns.

Pushed on whether there will be any cut to child benefit, Mr Cameron says: "It stays as it is".

”I've be very clear on child benefit. I couldn’t have been clearer," he says.

It’s worth pointing out, however, that if child benefit stays "as it is", and does not rise in line with inflation over the five years of the next parliament, then that will still amount to a “real terms” cut.

BBC Breakfast

Asked on BBC Breakfast about some direct questions from quite angry people in Thursday's Leaders' Question Time, Mr Cameron says:"I thought it was excellent. I thought it was just the sort of television programme we need - direct conversation with the voters without too much intermediation from anybody else."

BBC Breakfast

Prime Minster David Cameron has said the news of the Duchess of Cambridge going into labour is "very exciting".

He says: "One of the privileges of my job is you get to see them [the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge] up front, and they are a wonderful couple. They are loving parents, and with the rest of the nation I'll be wishing them well today, hoping for a healthy and happy outcome."

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This week the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said that despite what politicians may say, there is no magic money tree to shake, and that after the election, households can expect lower incomes, whoever wins.

But why is the IFS taken so seriously by politicians? Paul Johnson, its director, tells Radio 5 live: "We have for many years tried very hard to first be absolutely independent.. second to be scrupulously accurate with our figures and calculations, and thirdly to combine... really serious academic work... with actually making ourselves comprehensible to the world."

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With only five days to go to the election, the campaigns will go into a new phase, John Tonge, professor of politics at the University of Liverpool, tells BBC Breakfast.

"We've had the manifestos, we've had the policies, no political party would be credible if it was simply pulling policies out of a hat in the final week of the campaign, so we're now into a form of trench warfare, in which the arguments we've heard over the last few weeks, and indeed the last few months, will be repeated," he says.

"We've also got the ground war, where it's a question now of getting the vote out, so party campaigners will be knocking on your door, trying to get you to get out and vote."

There are five...count 'em... five days left until the general election. Labour is saying it would not do a deal to form a goverment with the SNP after the election, but the Scottish Nationalists have been receptive. The Conservatives have painted a picture of chaos if there is a Labour-SNP deal. But how would you feel? And what about a Conservative- Lib Dem or UKIP alliance?

We'd like your views on those or any other political issues close to your heart. Email us at politics@bbc.co.uk.or tweet us at @bbcpolitics., external

As the parties go into the final few days of the election campaign, Labour leader Ed Miliband has accused the Conservatives of trying to use the SNP to distract voters from the Conservatives' record. He will try to reframe the election as a clash of values and visions, not a clash of nations. And David Cameron will announce the Conservatives' manifesto for pensioners.