Campaign countdown: 27 January

Summary

There are 100 days to go until the General Election on 7 May
David Cameron says Conservatives will cut benefits cap and use money saved to boost apprenticeships
Ed Miliband sets out Labour's 10 year plan for NHS including longer home visits from social care workers
David Cameron tells BBC Breakfast he will do TV debates if Northern Ireland parties are included....
...but he later tells BBC Radio 2's Jeremy Vine he wants them all held before the election campaign begins
Rolling coverage from the BBC's political team - beginning with Today and Breakfast through to Newsnight
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Live Reporting

Vanessa Barford, Adam Donald and Angela Harrison

Good nightpublished at 23:59 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015
That's all from us for today - the day which marked 100 days until the general election and saw the NHS and the economy high on the political agenda. Political leaders set aside their differences to commemorate the liberation 70 years ago of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in Poland. Prime Minister David Cameron, Labour leader Ed Miliband and the Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg met survivors of the Holocaust at an event in London. We will be back at 0600 to follow the story of the general election - including this week's Prime Minister's Questions.
Poll trackerpublished at 23:47 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015
The polls will be coming thick and fast in the coming months - keep up to date with the BBC's new interactive poll tracker, which lets you see the results of polls conducted by a range of organisations.
The tracker also includes a timeline of key events, so you can see how public opinion might have shifted at important junctures in the past five years.
Key datespublished at 23:33 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015
The parties have been ramping up their campaigns - with 100 days until people go to the polls. The BBC's Jo Coburn highlights some key dates between now and then.
Fracking rebelpublished at 23:17 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015
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Lib Dem MP Tessa Munt says it was "with regret" that she resigned as a parliamentary aide to Business Secretary Vince Cable - but she was unwilling to compromise her opposition to fracking and voted against the government yesterday. The MP, whose constituency is in Somerset, said she would "continue to campaign vocally against fracking".
Tomorrow's paperspublished at 23:15 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015
BBC News
UK
tweets, external: Times: "Labour NHS strategy will bring 'poll catastrophe'" #BBCPapers #tomorrowspaperstoday (via @hendopolis)
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Tomorrow's paperspublished at 22:59 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015
BBC News
UK
tweets, external: Daily Mail: "Net porn fuels horror crimes, says our top judge" #BBCPapers #tomorrowspaperstoday (via @hendopolis)
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Today in Parliament, 23:30published at 22:55 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015
BBC Radio 4
Join the BBC's Today in Parliament team tonight at 23:30 on Radio 4 for the highlights from the Palace of Westminster today.
On the programme: George Osborne and Ed Balls clash at Treasury questions; Ian Paisley Jr. asks for clarification on the On The Runs scheme; and the Scottish Affairs committee asks witnesses why City Link went into administration.
'Alien ideology'published at 22:53 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015
Andy Burnham tells Kirsty Wark on BBC Newsnight: "The Health and Social Care Act 2012 - the coalition's reform that nobody gave them permission to bring forward - has put an alien ideology at the heart of the NHS."
Tomorrow's paperspublished at 22:48 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015
BBC News
UK
tweets, external: Wednesday's Guardian: "Europe's great plane data grab" #BBCPapers #tomorrowspaperstoday via @hendopolis
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NHS out-sourcingpublished at 22:46 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015
On BBC Newsnight, Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham is being pressed to say how much out-sourcing of NHS care Labour would like to see. He says "there isn't a right percentage"; that there is a "supporting role" for the private and voluntary sectors, but the preferred provider is the NHS.
Tomorrow's paperspublished at 22:25 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015
BBC News
UK
tweets, external: Wednesday's FT: "UK grows at fastest pace since crisis" #BBCPapers #tomorrowspaperstoday via @hendopolis
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Tomorrow's paperspublished at 22:18 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015
Neil Henderson
BBC News
tweets, external: TELEGRAPH: Labour election chaos over NHS #tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers
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100 dayspublished at 22:07 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015
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A quick recap - with 100 days to the election, Labour and the Conservative Party have set out their stalls. Ed Miliband gave a speech in Manchester on Labour's "10-year plan" for the NHS - which pledges new checks to identify people at risk of needing a hospital stay and the recruitment of 5,000 new home carers. Meanwhile, David Cameron outlined plans to cut the benefits cap - from £26,000 to £23,000 - to pay for more apprenticeships. In an online advert, the Liberal Democrats suggested without them, the two main parties would either take Britain down a path of "harsher cuts" or "reckless borrowing".
BBC Newsnight, BBC Two, 22:30published at 21:46 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015
Tonight on @BBCNewsnight, external: Labour's shadow health secretary Andy Burnham, Holocaust Memorial Day, the fall-out from the Greek elections and continuing hostilities in Ukraine.
United Kingdom?published at 21:33 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015
The Daily Telegraph
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Iain Martin at the Daily Telegraph writes, external that the Conservatives would "be crazy" not to campaign on a theme of Scotland potentially "stitching up" England in May - with the SNP propping up a new Labour government.
Green supporterspublished at 21:18 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015
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The Green Party says membership in England and Wales passed the 50,000 mark this morning. The party leader Natalie Bennett says today is a day of opportunity: "It marks the start of a countdown to one of the most competitive and unpredictable elections in living memory."
Caught outpublished at 21:09 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015
BBC Sport
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England fast bowler Stuart Broad has apologised after making comments about the UK minimum wage on Twitter. The 28-year-old tweeted: "I've heard if you earn minimum wage in England you're in the top 10% earners in the world. #stay #humble."
Broad, who is in Australia on England duty, deleted the message after angry replies from some Twitter users. He then posted: "No offence meant and sorry if any taken. The hashtag was aimed at myself." Read the full story at BBC Sport.
Green economicspublished at 21:01 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015
The Guardian
The Guardian reports, external that the leading advocate of the Green Party's flagship economic policy of a £72 a week "citizen's income" - the Citizen's Income Trust - has acknowledged introducing the scheme "would mean 35.15% of households would be losers, with many of the biggest losers among the poorest households".
Lib Dem MPpublished at 20:52 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015
Lib Dem MP Tessa Munt has quit as an aide to Business Secretary Vince Cable, after voting against the government on fracking.
Strike suspendedpublished at 20:42 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015
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Unison has suspended a planned strike for its NHS members in England which was scheduled for 29 January.