Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg have begun speaking about the new settlement proposed for Wales - fittingly, they're holding the news conference in what Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb calls the "great Welsh cathedral" that is the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

Louise Bours MEP, UKIP's health spokeswoman, is next to speak in Margate. She says the "establishment parties have stolen the NHS". There have been "endless top-down reorganisations that drain it of cash", motivated "not [by] political need but political opportunism". She says patient care has suffered due to "policies of uncontrolled mass immigration".

tweets, external: Ed Balls on my train to Leeds for fees announcement "you won't have wasted your journey" he says #GE2015

tweets, external: Lots of platform audience interaction at #UKIP conf. Risks sounding a bit like a pantomime.

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Nigel Farage's wife, Kirsten, has arrived for the UKIP spring conference in Margate. There has been some doubt as to whether the UKIP leader will be speaking today given that he has just flown back from a gathering of conservative politicians in the United States. But as we speak, he is billed to appear at just after 16:00 GMT.

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Turning to Europe, Suzanne Evans says the UK is "more than just a star on someone else's flag" - she says she wants to see the country "freed from the demands of a decaying and deluded EU". She recites a list of prime ministers since Ted Heath, and says: "By one treacherous treaty after treacherous treaty they handed power that should still be vested in parliament, in Westminster, in the people of Britain, over to Brussels." And she adds that Labour and the Conservatives are the true parties of "little Englanders" - UKIP "aren't the ones who want to stay in the shadows jumping at Frau Merkel's every command".

Suzanne Evans, who only took over responsibility for UKIP's manifesto last month, says successive promises by party leaders have been broken, such as Nick Clegg vowing not to raise tuition fees, and David Cameron promising a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty. She says: "That's the trouble with cast-iron guarantees - they can be a bit brittle."

UKIP's Deputy Chairman Suzanne Evans is next up. She opens her speech with a joke referencing her party's oft-mocked 2010 manifesto, which was 427 pages long. The 2015 version, she insists, won't be calling for taxi drivers to wear uniforms, people to wear formal-dress to the theatre, or for the Circle Line on the London Underground to be actually shaped like a circle again. She says in 2015, the party's manifesto will focus on "quality, not quantity" and potential "bear traps" will be spotted and avoided.

Mark Reckless tells the audience at the UKIP spring conference his party is "the party of the NHS": promising to back local health boards, spend £3bn more on the NHS, transform dementia care, and abolish what he calls a "tax on illness" - hospital car parking charges.

Mark Reckless, who was re-elected to Parliament as a UKIP MP in November, is talking about issues which he says can help the party "reach beyond its base" - including planning, the NHS and energy. On the EU, he says UKIP wants to leave "not because we are nationalists but because we are democrats".

UKIP MP Mark Reckless is formally opening its spring conference in Margate. He starts by joking that his appearance is set to be less newsworthy than that at UKIP's autumn conference in September, when his dramatic arrival in Doncaster confirmed that he had defected from the Conservatives.

Alex Forsyth
BBC News Education Correspondent

The BBC's Alex Forsyth says Labour "will hope after all these years of deliberation, they've come up with a policy that's going to appeal to voters and makes financial sense - but the critics so far aren't convinced". She adds that tuition fees are "politically toxic territory", having burned both the last Labour government and - of course - the Lib Dems under Nick Clegg.

tweets, external: Local #UKIP man Tim Scott tells Margate audience "we're on the march...they're scared of us...let's not give them any more ammunition"

tweets, external: .@UKIP chairman 'have we peaked?' Margate audience 'nooooo' #ge2015

Daily Politics
Live on BBC Two

A veritable bonanza on the Daily Politics today - join Andrew Neil and the following guests at 12:00 GMT: journalist Harry Cole; Atul Hatwal of Labour Uncut; the American pollster Frank Luntz; UKIP Deputy Chairman Suzanne Evans; Conservative MP David Willetts; House of Cards creator Lord Dobbs; and the Lib Dem prospective parliamentary candidate in Hampstead and Kilburn, Maajid Nawaz.

tweets, external: What is it about tea towels in #ge2015 ? @IsabelHardman @IainMcNicol

The website Labour Uncut reports, external that "senior members" of Ed Miliband's inner circle are planning to encourage the Labour leader to sack Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls in the event the party has to secure a post-election coalition deal with the SNP: "Insiders familiar with these discussions over the past few weeks describe a scenario where Labour would have to 'reset its economic standing with the public' and demonstrate to the SNP that it would not be 'wedded to austerity-lite'. For some of Ed Miliband's closest and oldest advisers, removing Ed Balls would achieve both objectives as well as ridding them of a potentially truculent and obstructive Chancellor."

UKIP Deputy Chairman Suzanne Evans tells the BBC's Vicki Young that UKIP are being "singled out" over offensive comments made by members and supporters of the party. She says among candidates from other parties across the country there is "an amazing amount of racism, sexism, and fraud", but UKIP are being "picked on". She adds that as UKIP's spring conference gets under way, the party has taken comfort from the fact that a local poll in Thanet South, where Nigel Farage is bidding to be an MP, puts the UKIP leader 11% ahead of his nearest opponent.

Shadow Transport Secretary Michael Dugher - sometimes described as Labour's "attack dog" - has sunk his teeth into Jeremy Clarkson, scourge of the hybrid-driving, muesli-eating classes. Dugher described the Top Gear presenter as "bit of an idiot" in an interview with the House magazine, external, saying he was "not remotely representative of motorists" and just "represents himself". Clarkson snapped back on Twitter, external: "Labour's transport spokesman says he doesn't like Top Gear. Good. We don't make it for people who wear pink ties."

Robert Peston
Economics editor

The BBC's economics editor Robert Peston looks at some questions Ed Miliband needs to answer about his plans to reduce tuition fees, as well as examining just how Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls might pay for the measure.