UKIP has promised to up the NHS budget by £3bn a year. "This money will provide 20,000 more nurses and 8,000 new GPs," Ms Bours says. "I think that's a far better way to spend our money than giving it to the extortionate, out-of-touch EU club."

Allegra Stratton
Political editor, BBC Newsnight

Tweets:, external Jack Straw tells Newsnight he doesn't think Labour can cap MPs' outside earnings at 10/15% w/o following IPSA advice to up MPs' salaries

Prime Minister David Cameron is now on his feet, beginning a speech about a future Tory government's plan to keep universal benefits for pensioners.

"It's the NHS itself that needs emergency care and nursing back to health," UKIP's health spokesman Louise Bours says. The main cause of the injury? The kicking it receives as a political football, she says,

Norman Smith
BBC Assistant Political Editor

No 10 say the prime minister "understands the concerns that have been raised" about the conduct of Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw. The spokesman said Sir Malcolm's position as chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee would be one of the issues discussed with the Chief Whip. The spokesman declined to express a view on whether Sir Malcolm should remain as Chairman. He was asked if the PM still has confidence in Sir Malcolm's position but he declined to express any support.

Mark Reckless wants to improve the system for GP appointment bookings - he says he personally, as the father of two small boys, has experienced problems with that. He's also concerned about Medway Hospital and the "privatisation and fragmentation" that have affected the service.

Mark Reckless says "my priority above all" is to improve the NHS in "this constituency" - Rochester.

Mr Farage singles out Labour several times, saying he won't allow Labour to tell people what UKIP thinks about the NHS. And with that, he introduces UKIP MP - and of course, ex-Tory - Mark Reckless.

On the subject of health tourism, Nigel Farage says people coming into this country need to have health insurance, just as British people would if they went overseas. He says he is on "a quest to have better value for money" in the NHS.

"The National Health Service matters to me absolutely hugely," Mr Farage says. "UKIP is committed to an NHS free at the point of access and paid for out of taxation, full stop." But saying all that doesn't mean we can't be critical of some aspects of it, he adds.

The UKIP health policy event is just getting started. Here's Nigel Farage - a man "who's life has been saved three times by the NHS", his introduction says.

Joey Jones, deputy political editor, Sky News

Tweets: , externalPM's spokesman refuses to say the David Cameron has confidence in Malcolm Rifkind as chair of Intelligence and Security Committee

Norman Smith
BBC Assistant Political Editor

There's a humongous question mark about whether the TV debates will actually take place. Today's news is just the running order the broadcasters would like to see happen. I'd say it's looking very shaky indeed for several reasons. Chiefly the fact that David Cameron wants the debates - if they happen at all - to take place in March rather than April, because he says that otherwise they knock the wind out of the sails of the rest of the campaign. Another big issue is the fact that the DUP has not been included and is threatening legal action if the debates go ahead without them.

More from Sir Alistair Graham. With respect to Jack Straw and the work he said he could do for the firm, Sir Alistair said: "The issue is, is that private work being done with parliamentary facilities? Which is against the rules."

He also added: "We saw Sir Malcolm [Rifkind] saying he was self employed - he can do as he would like - when of course that is not true." Mr Rifkind has previously said that was a "silly" thing to say.

"I think there are some serious questions to be answered in Jack Straw's case," Sir Alistair Graham, former chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, tells the BBC. Mr Straw denies any wrongdoing.

Paul Waugh, PoliticsHome.com editor

Tweets:, external NB David Cameron still not definitively signed up to TV debates. What's announced today is 'proposed order' by broadcasters

Despite this announcement, it's still unclear whether the TV election debates will take place. You might remember that earlier this month the Democratic Unionist Party said it intended to seek a judicial review of the BBC's decision to exclude it from the televised general election debates.

Those seven parties, of course, are the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, UKIP, the SNP, the Green Party and Plaid Cymru.

News just in: Election debates order confirmed. On 2 April, seven party leaders will debate on ITV. Then on the BBC, on 16 April, the same seven will again appear on screen together. Finally, Channel 4 and Sky News will hold a debate on 30 April between just Labour's Ed Miliband and Prime Minister David Cameron.