Summary

  • The Conservatives promise to build 200,000 new starter homes by 2020

  • Labour has previously said it would make sure 200,000 new homes are being built each year by 2020

  • The Lib Dems say they will build 300,000 new homes.

  • Britain's banks should face an additional £1bn tax levy to help pay off the deficit, the Lib Dems say.

  • There are 66 days until the general election

  • Rolling political news, including key moments from Today, Breakfast, Daily Politics and Newsnight

Live Reporting

Tim Fenton and Angela Harrison

  1. Newspaper review

    Metro and Telegraph fronts

    Just sitting down for your first coffee of the day? Here's our overnight newspaper review, featuring today's announcement on homes from the Conservatives and a warning on UK defending spending.

  2. Ross Hawkins, BBC political correspondent

    tweets: Housing on @BBCBreakfast - part of the reason you can't afford a home: building not yet back at pre crash levels

    Graph from Twitter

  3. Bank tax

    Danny AlexanderPA

    The Liberal Democrats have announced plans to tax Britain's banks with an additional £1bn levy. Danny Alexander, the coalition's chief secretary to the Treasury, wants to effectively strip banks of the benefit of recent corporation tax cuts. The money, the Lib Dems say, would be used to pay off the deficit. More here.

  4. Housing pledge

    Generic homesPA

    Later, David Cameron will promise to make 200,000 homes available to first-time buyers in England by 2020 if the Conservatives win the election. Plans for 100,000 cut-price homes for people under 40 have already been announced by the coalition. Labour has pledged to build 200,000 new homes by 2020, while the Lib Dems have set out plans to build 300,000. More here.

  5. Good morning

    Hello and welcome to a fresh Monday's political coverage. Nick Eardley and Victoria King will bring you all the action, reaction and analysis in text and you'll be able to watch and listen to all the main BBC political programmes, from Today and Breakfast through to Newsnight and Today in Parliament. Don't forget you can get in touch by emailing politics@bbc.co.uk or via social media @bbcpolitics. Here's how Sunday unfolded.