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
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BBC Radio 2
"You can't tax your way to wealth and success," the prime minister tells Jeremy Vine - claiming that this is something Labour "doesn't understand". He also repeats his pledge to make a reduction in the benefits cap "one of the first things" he would do if he wins the next election.
BBC Radio 2
David Cameron has been clocking up the media appearances today. He is about to appear on the Jeremy Vine show on Radio 2.
@notayesmansecon tweets:, external As the UK's housing boom fades so does its economic growth, external #GDP #GBP #ukhousing
Robert Peston
Business editor, BBC News
tweets, external: And who has paid for the recovery, rich or poor, asks Robert Peston?
Labour MP Liz Kendall tweets:, external Social care workforce neglected and exploited for too long. Zero hours contracts, 15 min visits will never provide quality care #labnhsplan
BBC News Channel
Chancellor George Osborne says the latest GDP figures show the recovery of the UK economy is "on track".
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Christine St Claire in UK, emails: A fifteen minute visit is just ludicrous. Of course visits need to be longer. How can anyone get the help they need in such a short time. Well done Ed Miliband, you will get my vote.
Robert Peston
Business editor, BBC News
The BBC's economics editor Robert Peston asks: How significant is the slowdown in the British economy, given that the dominant service sector is still booming, but construction is shrinking and manufacturing almost back to flatlining?
Image source, PAMr Balls was speaking after ONS figures showed the UK's economy grew by 2.6% last year, the fastest pace since 2007 and up from 1.7% in 2013 - although there was a slowdown in the final three months of 2014.
Christine Anderson in UK, emails: Unless carers are paid a decent wage and travel money the proposals won't make any difference
@carowilb tweets:, external 100 days until the general election. I'm intrigued to see what Cameron is going to come up with #NHS
BBC News Channel
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls also told the BBC News Channel living standards had been stagnant for too long. "When Conservatives say they have fixed the economy, most people say who for, not for me... if that's Tory success, just think of what failure would look like."
A quick recap - with 100 days to the election, Labour and the Conservative Party are setting out their stalls. Ed Miliband has given a speech on Labour's "10-year plan" for the NHS - which pledges new safety checks to identify people at risk of hospitalisation and recruiting 5,000 new home care - in Manchester. Meanwhile, David Cameron has been outlining plans to cut the benefits cap - from £26,000 to £23,000 - to pay for more apprenticeships.
Image source, ONSThis is from the BBC's Business Live team: It's worth noting a couple of things from today's GDP figures. The first is that the official estimate is below the forecast from the Office for Budget Responsibility, external at the time of the Autumn Statement that economic growth would be 3% in 2014. The second is that while, as the ONS says, there has been widespread growth across all major components of GDP since the start of 2013, the service industries remain the largest and steadiest contributor to economic growth. In fairness to the OBR, it did originally forecast GDP growth for 2014 of 2.7% back in March last year.
Mr Miliband says there is still a stigma with mental health, and the nation has got to find a way to talk about it.
tweets, external: Ed Miliband: "Because of his broken promises, what tuition fees are for Nick Clegg, the NHS has become for David Cameron."
Ed Miliband is now taking questions from the audience in Trafford, including on his plans for dementia care and the role of pharmacies in the NHS.
A bit more on that speech by Ed Miliband - he said the "key principle" to making the NHS sustainable and successful is investment, so the NHS has "time to care".
David Cameron can't be trusted with our NHS, Mr Miliband suggests.