Lib Dem peer claims David Cameron told Nick Clegg privately he doesn't think he'll win a majority
Mr Cameron calls it "desperate tactics" by the Lib Dems, but Mr Clegg says it's "a big fib" for the Tories to claim they can win outright
Labour and the Lib Dems focussed on the NHS while the Conservatives campaigned on tax
Labour sources tell the BBC the party is considering the option of having a minority coalition with the Lib Dems
Comedian Russell Brand endorses Ed Miliband
Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood says she would vote down a Labour Budget if it contained cuts
UKIP launches its Scottish manifesto in Falkirk
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There are 650 seats being contested on Thursday night, but there are some key battleground constituencies to watch to find out which party, if any, could win a majority. In a Daily Politics film, Jeremy Vine looks at the vulnerable and winnable seats, picking out a few in England and Scotland. Watch the clip
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Image source, APUKIP leader Nigel Farage has endorsed doubling or trebling British aid to earthquake-struck Nepal.
The UK government's humanitarian response package now stands at £22.8 million.
But describing the UK contribution as "just a few million", Mr Farage told The World At One a short time ago he had "no objections to doubling or trebling that" - thereby taking it to more than £60 million.
He said he did not want to see aid going to the "wrong places".
Image source, GettySpeaking to reporters on a visit to Wells in Somerset, Mr Cameron was asked again if he had told Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg that the Tories would not win a majority.
"Certainly not," he said. "Nick Clegg is obviously increasingly desperate because he knows he is losing seat after seat across the country"
The prime minister added:
Quote MessageI could tell you all the things he has said to me in private. That would certainly surprise you."
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Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson is warning that an alliance between Labour and the SNP at Westminster in would lead to "militant left-wing policies".
She said Britain was facing the "desperate prospect of a weak Labour government having its crutches kicked away by an SNP using every vote to make the case for independence".
Quote MessageIt would be a disaster for our economic recovery, with more borrowing and higher taxes to pay for unlimited welfare. The SNP's real motive would be to drive up resentment - all the better to create a wedge between our great nations."
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Image source, PADon't expect a sunny burst of optimism to break through the clouds of negative campaigning in these last 72 hours before The Vote. Voters fear losing what they’ve already got more than they appreciate gaining something in the dim and distant future. Behavioural psychologists call it the "endowment effect" or "status quo bias".
It’s why the Conservatives are believed to have scraped out a win in ’92, as nervy voters clutched their purses and wallets and looked at the "threat" of Neil Kinnock and his gang. And it’s what the Conservative campaign has been based on - telling people how good they've got it right now, and how Labour will blow it, rather than telling people how good they might have it in the future.
Only on "Manifesto Day", and a handful of times since, did David Cameron lurch away from that message with his talk of the "good life" to come . Yes, negative campaigning is dreary and depressing, corroding the very soul of political life. But the fault, dear reader, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
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Image source, PAUKIP has "massive support" in Falkirk and looks like its going to win in Falkirk, according to the party's leader in Scotland. David Coburn, candidate for the seat, made the upbeat remarks as he launched UKIP's Scottish manifesto in the town centre.
Mr Coburn told the audience of supporters that Labour had "disgraced themselves here" while Falkirk voters were not interested in the SNP.
Quote MessageThey are not interested in the Scottish nationalists because the Scottish nationalists are not good for the business of Falkirk. They are not interested in fracking, which is essential to keep Grangemouth (pictured above) open. They are not interested in coal technology or improving it. They really just want to send us back to a William Wallace pre-industrialised age ... but I think the vast majority of people would like to have their central heating thank you very much."
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"I suspect there's a sort of numb panic" - that's the assessment of the politicians' current mood from Prof Tony Travers, of the London School of Economics. We've been through weeks of campaigning, but "it's still absolutely level-pegging", he says.
"The truth is that they must now be thinking, 'If we can just get one final message across we can perhaps get a few extra votes and that will allow us then to be in a better negotiating position on Friday.' I suspect that's what they're privately now thinking."
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"I am very pleased Russell Brand hasn't endorsed me," says Nigel Farage, with a chuckle. "I don't think it'll make any difference to the campaign, at all."
Asked whether he'd received any celebrity endorsements, Mr Farage said former BBC talk-show presenter Robert Kilroy Silk had once joined the party, but he added of that experience: "I think we were rather bitten by the celebrity culture so we haven't done much with it since."
From Jonny Dymond, Conservative campaign correspondent
The prime minister did a 15-minute walkabout in front of Wells Cathedral during a May Day fair, chatting with smallholders and taking selfies with voters. Everyone was friendly and pretty pleased to see him, although there was a little bit of barracking from an anti-fracking protester.
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"The future is global, it is not the EU," Nigel Farage exclaims. "The EU is now a millstone round our neck.
"We have let into the EU 10 former communist countries. Many of them have communities that live in abject poverty and I don't blame anyone for wanting to better their lives... but the fact is they have driven down wages in this country."
Image source, GettyGreen Party leader Natalie Bennett, herself born in Australia, has told an audience in Haringey, north east London, that voting Green could help to deliver a "fair, humane, decent" immigration policy.
Quote MessageFor months we have seen the entire political establishment trying to out-UKIP UKIP, to sound tougher on immigration than UKIP. As a migrant... I've watched in horror as other parties have lined up to blame immigrants for a whole range of ills that come not as a result of immigration but as a result of government policies."
She said it was "no great surprise" that the Tories "have tried to grab back their voters from UKIP". But she also turned her fire on Labour.
Quote MessageTo many, what has been much more shocking has been Labour's failure of backbone and Labour's chasing after Ukip on immigration rhetoric. Rather than standing up to Nigel Farage and his chums, Labour has wilted."
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"I am not part of the establishment, I am anti-establishment... that is why they are gathering round together and being so beastly to me," Nigel Farage says after explaining he went to private school, and wants to create more grammar schools.
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