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. On terror laws

    Mr Cameron is taking questions now. As well as housing, he's asked about so-called Jihadi John and whether he has plans to tighten up controls on radicalised individuals. "My view is national security comes first, whatever it takes, whatever is necessary... we want to push for those changes," he tells the audience in Hove. He goes on to say he's "not satisfied we can allow means of communication to develop" that extremists can use and we can't touch.

  2. Campaign Countdown Review

    BBC News Channel

    The Campaign Countdown Review is underway. Desktop users can tune in using the live coverage tab above.

  3. Do party leaders matter?

    Daily Politics
    Live on BBC Two

    Rick Nye

    Policy or personality? Rick Nye, from Populus, says party brands - and that includes leadership - are important when people come to vote, even if some people say otherwise. "You are supposed to be about the substance," he says, but "we are all to a greater or lesser extent driven by the attractiveness of parties and their leaders."

  4. Syria question

    House of Commons
    Parliament

    Urgent question at 15.30 GMT in the Commons. Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper is to ask Home Secretary Theresa May for a statement on whether removing relocation powers - under the axed control orders regime - facilitated the travel of individuals to Syria.

  5. Patrick Wintour, Guardian political editor

    tweets: DC "By 2020, 90 per cent of suitable brownfield sites will have planning permission for housing".

  6. Paul Nuttall, UKIP deputy leader

    tweets: How can Cameron plan for housing when he can't control immigration? Bonkers!

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  7. Help to buy

    The PM promises to extend Help to Buy throughout the next Parliament - assuming he's elected - which should help 120,000 more families.

  8. Kate McCann, Whitehall correspondent at The Sun

    tweets: David Cameron says gov is on track to build 200,000 homes a year by 2017, not 2020.

  9. Starter homes

    David Cameron says there's been "a quiet crisis" going on for some time - young people with good jobs unable to afford homes. Hence, the new starter homes plan. He says big developers have already signed up and promises the new homes won't be snapped up by foreign investors.

  10. More rental options

    Daily Politics
    Live on BBC Two

    Lib Dem Baroness Brinton says more social and low-cost renting accommodation needs to be made available. For many people, buying still isn't going to be possible she adds.

  11. More from Cameron

    David CameronITN

    Labour's policy is to borrow more. Ours, the PM says - and it's that phrase again - is to see through our long-term economic plan.

  12. In short supply

    Daily Politics
    Live on BBC Two

    Rehman Chisti says people who work hard should be able to aspire to owning their homes. He says the government is making "significant" progress, but admits more needs to be done to solve the problem. Labour's Lisa Nandy says house prices have gone up because of the lack of supply - her party wants to help builders construct new homes, too.

  13. Security is key - PM

    David Cameron says his policies can be summed up in one word - security. He says that extends from the security of a good school place to security in old age. Key to that security, he adds, is owning your own home.

  14. PM housing speech

    David Cameron has just started speaking on his housing plans in Colchester, Essex.

  15. Ed Miliband, Labour leader

    tweets: The next Labour government will deliver a better plan on housing:

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  16. Emwazi case

    Daily Politics
    Live on BBC Two

    Mr Chishti says many radical preachers in the UK will tone their words so they are within the law. He says it is important to get such preachers off university campuses to avoid another case like Emwazi's. Labour's Lisa Nandy says a new support system for those vulnerable to radicalisation needs to be put in place.

  17. Terror laws

    Daily Politics
    Live on BBC Two

    Daily Politics is discussing the issues surrounding Islamic State militant Mohammed Emwazi - known to many as Jihadi John. Tory MP Rehman Chishti says fewer people have absconded under TPIMs than under the old system of control orders - and says they are the right way forward. Earlier, former reviewer of terrorism legislation Lord Carlile raised questions about the scrapping of control orders in relation to Jihadi John.

  18. Campaign countdown

    BBC News Channel

    New Statesman's Stephen Bush and Rosamund Urwin from the London Evening Standard

    The BBC News Channel's review of the political week is coming up at 12:30 GMT. Today Rosamund Urwin, from the London Evening Standard, and the New Statesman's Stephen Bush will be discussing possible splits in UKIP, the Green Party's relaunch after Natalie Bennett's disastrous interview last week and reports that the prime minister is bored with his own campaign. We'll bring you the latest here and desktop users can watch it on the live coverage tab above.

  19. BuzzFeed UK Politics

    tweets: A UKIP candidate got stranded on the beach after writing 'We Love Nige'. Read more.

  20. Norman Smith

    tweets: No 10 say it remains PMs "ambition" to get net migration down to tens of thousands