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Now it's Nigel Farage's turn. David Cameron has said your;e not going to get any seats. "I know," Mr Farage, says, "It's desperate Dave." He says most UKIP voters are not lapsed Conservatives as Mr Cameron says, many come from Labour and many are those who normally wouldn't vote.

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Yvette Cooper is asked how it feels feels having her husband [Ed Balls] held up as the poster boy for what the Tories say is Labour's record of economic failure?

"Ed has been at the forefront of saying the deficit has got to come down. The Tories approach has failed."

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Let's talk about cuts, says Andrew Marr. What will they be? Yvette Cooper says they wouldn't have cuts of the "depth" of the Conservatives, but Labour has identified £800 million of savings from the Home Office budget. That allows frontline services to be protected - it'll come from things like encouraging police forces to work together more, Ms Cooper adds.

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She is asked: If you're putting an important piece of legislation forward do you do it without knowing in advance how the SNP would vote? That's an issue for all governments, she says, knowing what the opposition is thinking.

Andrew Marr tries again - Would you have conversations though?

"You're still trying to pre-empt an election that hasn't happened, trying to play games with the things Ed has been talking about," Ms Cooper says.

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"We cannot do coalitions, deals or pacts with the SNP." Yvette Cooper says. But what about conversations with them? "It would be up to other parties how they vote on a Labour programme. It's for them to decide. We're not going to have deals and pacts about what's going to be in a Labour Queen's Speech."

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Can you look me in the eye and say you're going to win those 100 seats, Andrew Marr asks. She replies: "The public will decide on Thursday."

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Now up shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper. You'd have to win more than a hundred seats in England to make up for your losses in Scotland if the polls are right? "We're working for a majority," she says, and we're getting "a very warm reception on the doorstep". We're fighting for every vote, including in Scotland, she insists.

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It seems like all the millions spent on strategists and public relations experts have been a waste, because the polls haven't moved, says Matthew Parris, adding: "It renews your faith in human nature." Gaby Hinsliff says "there'll be real questions afterwards about whether it was worth spending that money".

On the subject of Ed Miliband's pledge stone, "what happens if he loses", she asks, "do you just bung it in the garden?"

"He'll have to wear it around his neck for the rest of his life," jokes Matthew Parris.

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The paper reviewers discuss David Cameron's strategy of appearing more "pumped up" - the prime minister's words - in the last week."This is new shouty, fighty Cameron," political commentator Gaby Hinsliff says. Matthew Parris, of the Times, is unimpressed. "I can't bear it... and I think people see through it."

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Now onto politics. Discussing the idea that David Cameron can stay in No. 10 even if there's no outright majority, Gaby Hinsliff says: "It's basically exercising squatters' rights... bluff everyone into assuming you've won". She says that's what Gordon Brown tried to do.

It's not quite like Gordon Brown though, Matthew Parris says, noting that Mr Brown didn't have the most seats "The whole idea of legitimacy will matter," Parris says, and if the Tories get close to 290 seats it really will look like they get first dibs.

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The Andrew Marr Show is under way. So far the paper review, with Matthew Parris, of the Times, and Gaby Hinsliff, political editor of Grazia magazine, is concentrating on the royal baby.

Political commentators on Twitter seem somewhat bemused by Ed Miliband's decision to carve Labour's election promises in an 8ft piece of stone. Here are a few below, but what do you think, good readers? Email us at politics@bbc.co.uk or tweet us @bbcpolitics to let us know.

The UK financial markets could suffer should the election not deliver a decisive result, according to an article in The Guardian, external . “The worst outcome would be a dead heat,” said Dhaval Joshi, of investment analysts BCA. Labour and the Conservatives are currently neck and neck in the polls.

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Sky News political correspondent Sophy Ridge has spent a day on the campaign trail with Justine Miliband, external. They talked about the highs and lows of politics, and how she copes with the unrelenting focus on her husband's every step - or stumble.

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If you like a bit of a chuckle in between reading manifestos and mulling over red lines, the Sun has taken a leaf out of the book of US TV host Jimmy Kimmel and persuaded Nick Clegg to read out some of the mean things written about him on Twitter., external

With polling day looming the Sunday papers have made clear their political allegiances. There aren't many surprises. The Sunday Express's editorial comes out in favour of UKIP, saying Nigel Farage is the only leader really listening to the British people.

The Sunday Telegraph has a plea on behalf of the Conservatives, describing David Cameron as "a reasonable and compassionate man" who should be allowed to "get on with the job". The Sunday Times also backs the Tories - its sister the Times has swung both ways politically over the years.

The Observer and Sunday People's editorials both back Labour. The former says Ed Miliband "has a far more sophisticated vision of economic and social justice" than his prime ministerial rival.

Finally, the Independent on Sunday says its readers should make up their own minds.