David Cameron says he will only take part in one TV election debate before 30 March
In a "final offer" to broadcasters, Mr Cameron calls for one debate consisting of seven leaders
Ed Miliband and David Cameron clash over the record on immigration at PMQs
UKIP says it wants to return immigration to "normal" levels, with up to 50,000 work permits
Nigel Farage denies there's been a U-turn after he says UKIP has no formal migration cap
Ex-minister Andrew Mitchell pays £80,000 in damages to a police officer at the centre of the "plebgate" row
Lib Dems pledge to hand drugs policy from the Home Office to the Department of Health
There are 64 days until the general election
BBC Radio 4 Today
So the IFS tells us average household incomes are back to the same level they were in 2007-08. But the recovery has been slow and poorer people aren't that much better off. Chancellor George Osborne tells Today the country has reached a milestone but "we have got to reach a truly national recovery and that can't be risked by abandoning the [long term economic?] plan".
tweets:, external "After #GE2010 we had 3 different 2-party systems: after #GE2015 we may have a much more complex electoral geography" Read more., external
The Guardian
Quick hat tip to the Guardian's Andrew Sparrow. He points out that Nigel Farage was wrong to say UKIP never said it would publish its manifesto at the spring conference during his Today interview. Suzanne Evans, UKIPs deputy chairman, said this in January, when she took over responsibility for the manifesto.
"I relish the task of putting together the final details and presenting a sensible, radical and fully-costed manifesto at our spring conference in Margate."
tweets:, external The UKIP migration target of 20,000 to 50,000 is billed by Farage as "Back to Normality", a fine broader election slogan for UKIP.
tweets:, external How would quitting EU allow migration control as Ukip claims? Free trade would have to include free movement. Switz has migrant pop of 23%
BBC Radio 4 Today
BBC Radio 4's Tom Bateman is in Tottenham for the Today programme. He's looking at how much - if anything - has changed in the area since the 2011 London riots.
Despite a number of high-profile initiatives there are still not enough funds available to help young people into jobs in Haringey, Chris Hall, the head of a local school for children expelled from the mainstream system, says.
He adds that lack of jobs remains the biggest problem in the borough, with unemployment levels well above the national average, At the same time the council has to find £70m of spending cuts.
BBC Radio 4 Today
When will your manifesto come out Mr Farage? "It'll be coming out in April. I suspect it'll come out later than the other parties... Later so that what we say will have some impact." He says he would "never have contemplated" releasing it last week despite it being reported that, in fact, that was what was originally planned.
tweets: , externalUkip 5 year "immigration ban" was actually a moratorium on integration (settlement & citizenship). Glad if thats gone
BBC Radio 4 Today
Pressed on the suggestion of a 50,000 limit made very recently by his immigration spokesman, Mr Farage replies, his ire rising a bit: "We're not having caps, we're getting rid of caps." He goes on: "I do not believe we would need up to 50,000 people a year. I think the figure would be substantially lower." He says the UK is currently discriminating against better skilled people from outside the EU in favour of low-skilled European workers.
tweets: , externalChris Leslie's r4 slot showed programming your frontbenchers to chant "out of touch" isn't quite enough to deal with good economic news
BBC Radio 4 Today
"Back to normality - what we had from Windrush to the year 2000" - that's what Nigel Farage tells Today he wants to return the level of net migration to.
BBC Radio 4 Today
"I'm not putting caps or targets," Mr Farage continues. "You need to have more flexibility than that." "What I want to talk about is how we'd be better off with an Australian-style points system."
tweets:, external Living standards back to where they were in 2007-8, but mainly for those over 60. & are rising strongly now, says IFS
Image source, ReutersIn case you're wondering what Barry Sheerman was tweeting about, the government announced overnight it had sold its stake in Eurostar. The stake is being bought by a Canadian pension fund and a UK asset manager, who will buy shares for £585m. Eurostar will also hand over £170m to redeem shares which guarantee a dividend. The government's stake was officially valued last year at £325m.
BBC Radio 4 Today
Shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Chris Leslie is sure that people aren't feeling richer. "I don't think we can dispute there is a recovery, but the question is who benefits from that recovery," he tells Today. He certainly doesn't accept that the IFS report blows any holes in Labour's arguments about a cost of living crisis.
Big discussion about the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) report on household incomes. Whether the average household income is back to levels they were at before the financial downturn struck. One one measure, for the over 60s, it is. But for most of the rest of us, it hasn't got there yet. Our story here.
tweets:, external Household incomes returning to pre-crisis levels, more or less. Labour's campaign theme for March? Cost of living crisis.
BBC Breakfast
Mr Farage says his new immigration system would cost "a few hundred million pounds" which "sounds a lot" but would bring huge savings in the long run.
BBC Breakfast
UKIP suggests someone coming in to Britain should earn £27,000 or more. But when it's put to Mr Farage that a nurse's starting salary is much less than that, he admits: "I do accept that with the health service there will be some exceptions."
BBC Breakfast
Nigel Farage has moved on to BBC Breakfast. He says last year 27,000 people came into the UK who would have passed UKIP's points system. He seems happy with that as long as all of that number don't claim benefits for five years and have health insurance.