It's been far from a lazy Sunday for some of our biggest political hitters, with UKIP leader Nigel Farage defending his party's attitude to gay people; Conservative former defence secretary Liam Fox hinting at a potential Tory rebellion if defence spending targets are not met; Labour's Yvette Cooper saying the security services had their "hands tied" by coalition policy; and the two governing parties at odds over the limits of free speech on university campuses.

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The Daily Mail

In his column in the Mail on Sunday, external, James Forsyth suggests this is "almost certainly [David] Cameron's last General Election battle." But he argues that the Conservatives won't "win without taking some risks" and that some Tories are pushing for the right to buy - "the great, iconic Thatcherite policy" - to be extended to two and a half million housing association properties.

The Independent

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Jane Merrick, political editor of the Independent on Sunday, says that despite the controversy around Labour's "pink bus", women in the Labour Party have never been so powerful. Ms Merrick argues that the future of the party lies in the hands of "the group of talented female MPs from [the 2010] cohort - Liz Kendall, Rachel Reeves, Stella Creasy, Gloria De Piero, Emma Reynolds and Luciana Berger."

Sunday Times

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A YouGov/Sunday Times poll, external (pdf) finds that 66% of people think ISIS are the biggest threat facing the UK, as opposed to 20% who see Russia in that position. 4% of respondents - who, depending on your opinion, could be wise, foolish, perceptive, or ignorant - say that neither is a threat to the UK.

The Daily Telegraph

There is still a chance that another Conservative MP could defect to UKIP before the general election, Nigel Farage has suggested in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph., external The UKIP leader said there was still "one conversation" going on with a Conservative about switching sides to join Douglas Carswell and Mark Reckless, who defected to UKIP late last year - triggering by-elections which they won in Claction and Rochester and Strood respectively.

tweets, external: Engaging gentle look at Jim Murphy Scots Labour leader & suddenly the man on which the election outcome could turn. http://www.scotsman.com/news/dani-garavelli-jim-murphy-the-dynamic-underdog-1-3705170 …, external

The Spectator

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At The Spectator, Alex Massie says, external an SNP landslide in Scotland in May could spell the end of the Union - but parties in the rest of the UK don't appear to understand this. With the SNP "stronger than ever" after the independence referendum, "David Cameron would be wrong to think that his mission in May is to sneak over the finish line: his fight will have just begun. So unionists are entitled to feel a deep and heavy sense of foreboding. This election is going to be a disaster."

tweets, external: No 10 aide to @adamboultonSKY "There's a general election on.You wouldn't expect the PM to spend much time on foreign policy" (Sunday Times)

New Statesman

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At the New Statesman, Emran Mian writes, external, the senior civil servant to work on the Browne Review of Higher Education which "paved the way" to the introduction of £9,000 fees, writes that Labour's tuition fee announcement was "better than expected" - but still "terrible policy". He complains that the change is "simply unnecessary". "University applications are rising, despite the higher fee levels, and the gap between the participation rate of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and others has continued to reduce", he says.

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The Guardian

The Observer has an A-Z guide to the 2015 general election, external, which'll get you up to speed on some of the serious and not-so-serious factors set to make this election the most exciting and unpredictable in a long time.

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The SNP has criticised plans to place plaques featuring the Union flag and the line "funded by the UK government" on publically-funded projects in Britain as a "silly gimmick." The SNP's deputy leader and Treasury spokesman Stewart Hosie said the project "can't cover over the fact that his government at Westminster has slashed infrastructure spending - destroying jobs and delaying economic recovery - including cutting Scotland's capital budget by a quarter."

The Daily Telegraph

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At the Telegraph, Janet Daley writes, external that the Conservatives have failed to properly neutralise the allegation that they are the party merely of the wealthiest in society: "The Tories are trusted on the economy, but they could fail to turn that into an election victory, thanks to a feeling that they are too closely allied to the 1%."

Liberal Democrat MP Jenny Willott has accused Labour of wreaking "political carnage" on Cardiff in the way it is running the local council. The Cardiff Central MP claimed there was "open warfare" between Labour cabinet members, MPs and AMs. Ms Willot told her party's Welsh conference in Cardiff that services like rubbish collection suffered while Labour members argued over budget cuts.

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We know following the Politics Live page on a daily basis can be engrossing enough, so you might have missed some of the best longer-form content from the BBC's journalists during the week. Our economics editor Robert Peston took a look at Labour's pledge to reduce tuition fees; political reporter Brian Wheeler explained why the latest immigration statistics were potentially embarrassing for the Conservatives - before our assistant political editor Norman Smith asked why there wasn't more "weeping and wailing inside Number 10" in response to the figures. Finally, the website's own Tom Moseley outlined just a few of the jobs MPs do when they're not being MPs.

The Independent

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The Independent on Sunday reports, external that Labour's shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt is calling for girls to start careers lessons from the age of seven to encourage them to become more ambitious. He told a Labour conference in London that his party would want to encourage more employers to go into schools to talk about careers. "I want them to go into primary schools to talk to pupils - particularly girls in primary schools - so that they broaden their horizons," he said.

Gloucestershire Chief Constable Suzette Davenport has accused politicians of failing to get tough on drivers who use mobile phones at the wheel, out of fear of upsetting voters. Chief Constable Davenport, who is the lead for roads policing for the Association of Chief Police Officers, told the BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast show: ''My view is that if someone is caught twice using a mobile phone within a period of time we should be considering things like disqualifications for short periods of time."

The Guardian

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All would-be MPs should be forced to tell voters what paid jobs they have and whether they would keep them if elected, ethics chief Lord Bew has said. Lord Bew, who chairs the Committee on Standards in Public Life, told the Observer, external politicians were "really riding for a fall" if they failed to address the issue of outside earnings. His comments come after two former foreign secretaries, Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw, were suspended from their parties after allegedly offering their services to a private firm for money.

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Political correspondent, BBC News

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UKIP has referred a parliamentary candidate to its national executive committee after he suggested "Jihadi John" should have committed suicide. Richard Hilton, PPC for Mitcham and Morden, wrote on Twitter: "Jihadi John 'contemplated suicide'. It's a shame he didn't. Don't understand media attempts to blame MI5 for his evil." UKIP says neither the party nor Mr Hilton encourages suicide, and as soon as Mr Hilton realised his Tweet might be misconstrued he took it down.

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Politics Home, external have found an extract from UKIP's 2001 Manifesto which seems to counter Nigel Farage's claims that "prior to 2004 UKIP as a party didn't even talk about immigration as an issue because in fact we've got on for a long time with a net inflow to this country of about 30,000 people a year" made on today's Sunday Politics.

The 2001 manifesto stated: "The current problems of immigration and asylum result from inadequate enforcement of our laws, with migrants allowed by other EU countries to 'escape' into Britain. Our own government must re-establish proper border controls and apply our immigration laws humanely but firmly."