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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  1. Ed Miliband on NHSpublished at 08:27 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015

    BBC Breakfast

    Explaining how Labour is going to fund an extra £2.5bn a year across the UK for the NHS, Mr Milband says the party has "very clear plans" to raise the cash - from mansion tax, clamping down on tax avoidance and a levy on tobacco firms' market share.

  2. In quotes: Cameron on benefits cappublished at 08:23 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015

    BBC Radio 4 Today

    David CameronImage source, BBC/PA
  3. Miliband on the sofapublished at 08:21 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015

    BBC Breakfast

    Ed Miliband
  4. Ed Miliband on TV debatespublished at 08:20 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015

    BBC Breakfast

    "The PM is wriggling and wriggling to get out of these debates - let's make these debates happen," says Ed Miliband.

  5. Ed Miliband on NHSpublished at 08:16 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015

    BBC Breakfast

    The Labour leader is talking about the NHS again. He tells BBC Breakfast the "iron curtain" between health and social care isn't serving us well. "The NHS has got to start taking an interest in the social care system," he says.

  6. David Cameron on benefits cappublished at 08:16 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015

    BBC Radio 4 Today

    David Cameron says that families subject to the existing benefits cap have been more likely to find work than people not hit by the cap. His party is "unashamedly pro-work and pro- people who work hard". The Conservatives are proposing to lower the cap from £26,000 to £23,000 a year and use the money saved to boost apprenticeships.

  7. Nick Robinson, BBC political editorpublished at 08:12 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015

    tweets, external: "There's horror and there's hope". @Ed_Miliband speaks movingly of his grandfather who died in a Nazi camp & those who were saved @bbc5live

  8. Chris Mason, BBC political correspondentpublished at 08:12 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015

    tweets, external: The most arresting sequence of Ed Miliband's @bbc5live interview was about Labour leader's loss of his grandfather in the Holocaust

  9. Ed Miliband on TV debatespublished at 08:02 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015

    BBC Radio 5 live

    "He gives it the big one about leadership," says Ed Miliband. If so, why is he so scared of the TV debates, the Labour leader asks of David Cameron. Mr Miliband says he'll take part, even if there's an empty chair where the Conservative leader should be.

  10. Ed Miliband on NHSpublished at 08:01 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015

    BBC Radio 5 live

    He says the NHS is always going to be a priority for Labour and "staff and patients are crying out for a sense of a plan" for it - adding that his party has "the right policy and the right plan".

  11. Ed Miliband on NHSpublished at 07:56 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015

    BBC Radio 5 live

    Labour leader Ed Miliband there is a "big fight on for the future of the NHS" and that he wants to "rescue" it, not weaponise it.

  12. Ed Miliband talking NHSpublished at 07:53 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015

    BBC Radio 5 live

    Ed Miliband on 5live
  13. Andy Burnham on NHSpublished at 07:47 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015

    BBC Radio 4 Today

    The shadow health secretary says the country needs to "rethink" the way we care for older people, who are often "trapped" on hospital beds and subject to "flying 15-minute visits" by social care workers on home visits. "We need to support people with dementia and autism as well as those with cancer," he says.

  14. Andy Burnham on NHSpublished at 07:40 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015

    BBC Radio 4 Today

    Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, tells BBC's Radio 4's Today programme the Labour Party is planning to "re-set" the NHS in England as the "National Health and Social Care Service".

  15. David Cameron on election choicepublished at 07:28 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015

    BBC Breakfast

    David Cameron

    David Cameron ends his Breakfast appearance by being asked about the lessons for the UK from what has happened in Greece. He says the election choice is "competence with the Conservatives", or "chaos with other options".

  16. David Cameron on TV debatespublished at 07:24 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015

    BBC Breakfast

    On the subject of TV election debates, Mr Cameron said it was a "good thing" that discussions had been taking place about which parties should be included. Asked if he would take part in the debates if Northern Ireland parties were included, he replied "yes", adding "a deal could be done".

  17. David Cameron on apprenticeshipspublished at 07:22 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015

    BBC Breakfast

    David Cameron says apprenticeships are "very good" options for young people and the overwhelming majority of apprentices get jobs afterwards. The Conservatives are saying that they can create more using money saved by cutting the benefits cap limit.

  18. David Cameron on benefits cappublished at 07:18 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015

    BBC Breakfast

    David Cameron tells BBC Breakfast that plans to reduce the benefits cap shows the Conservatives want to build on what he says is a successful policy of getting more people in to work - he says there was criticism in some parts of the country that £26,000 was too high. It's "absolutely crucial" to making sure young people get jobs and build a future for themselves, he says.

  19. David Cameron on Breakfastpublished at 07:14 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015

    David Cameron

    The Prime Minister David Cameron is appearing on BBC Breakfast from Downing Street.

  20. Nick Robinson, BBC political editorpublished at 07:11 Greenwich Mean Time 27 January 2015

    tweets:, external Significance of today is not that it's 100 days until an election. It's Holocaust Memorial Day - when we pledge 'Never Again' @HolocaustUK