Summary

  • 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

  1. UKIP immigration policypublished at 12:09 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2015

    UKIP's immigration spokesman Steven Woolfe says the party's points-based system will work like someone "submitting a CV". "People from anywhere across the world, irrespective of whatever culture, creed, nationality you are, goes onto our system whether its online or through an organisation helping them and puts in their application," he says.

    "If they fit the points they go through to the next stage. Then the Commission will work out what sort of numbers we need for each year. If it says we need 50,000 people that year then we'll have 50,000 visa available and that goes through those people that have passed."

  2. Speaker speakspublished at 12:08 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2015

    Speaker Bercow is on his feet again, and calls for order (it's getting pretty rowdy in the chamber). Over to Ed Miliband, who says the PM must admit he has broken his promise. David Cameron says he has cut migration from outside the EU but that it has risen from within the EU. He's back to his list of commitments met again.

  3. Promises keptpublished at 12:07 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2015

    After Ed Miliband accuses David Cameron of breaking his promise to cut net migration, the PM reels off a list of pledges that he says the government has honoured - much to his backbenchers' delight. Speaker John Bercow cuts him off for taking too long, opening the floor to Ed Miliband who says Mr Cameron's promise on immigration was not worth the paper it's written on.

  4. Pic: Miliband waves migration pledgepublished at 12:07 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2015

    Ed Miliband
  5. Kevin Maguire, Daily Mirrorpublished at 12:06 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2015

    tweets: , externalCameron again refuses to say if he discussed tax avoidance with Lord Green. He did/didn't*(*delete according to politics) #pmqs

  6. Cameron hits backpublished at 12:06 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2015

    David Cameron adds that he wants to keep the economy strong but change the benefits system. Labour wants to protect the benefits system and trash the economy, he adds.

  7. Miliband on immigrationpublished at 12:06 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2015

    Ed Miliband is on his feet and begins his questioning on immigration. He says the PM made a "no ifs, no buts" promise to reduce net migration to the tens of thousands and had said people should vote him out if he didn't keep it but now it's higher than when he took office, he says. David Cameron says the strength of the UK economy and the benefits system were the reasons why migration had gone up.

  8. Mark Ferguson, Labour Listpublished at 12:03 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2015

    tweets:, external Lots of empty space on the green benches today #pmqs

  9. Lord Green kicks it offpublished at 12:03 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2015

    The first question to the PM comes from Labour MP Khalid Mahmood, who asks David Cameron to clarify whether he or the chancellor had a conversation with former trade minister Lord Green about HSBC's tax affairs. David Cameron responds by saying all the proper checks were made on Lord Green's appointment, and that Labour had employed him as a trade adviser.

  10. Pic: David Cameronpublished at 12:03 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2015

    David Cameron
  11. Michael Fabricant, Tory MPpublished at 12:01 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2015

    tweets:, external Am told that tomorrow is World Erotic Book Day. Shall I ask at #PMQs what the PM will do to mark it? (Maybe not).

  12. Likely subjects?published at 12:01 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2015

    Daily Politics
    Live on BBC Two

    Guardian commentator Nick Watt offers his predictions on Ed Miliband's line of questioning at this week's PMQs. He thinks the Labour leader would be on more comfortable ground if he goes on David Cameron's "failure" to meet the net migration target, rather than this morning's IFS report on household incomes.

  13. Pic: Cameron in the Housepublished at 11:59 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2015

    David Cameron
  14. UKIP immigration policy 'consistent'published at 11:58 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2015

    Daily Politics
    Live on BBC Two

    Tim Aker, UKIP MEP and parliamentary candidate for Thurrock, rejects assertions that UKIP has changed its mind on its immigration policy. He says the party has been "consistent", and that its target is to bring immigration under control.

  15. Angus MacNeil, SNPpublished at 11:56 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2015

    tweets: , externalInteresting on @bbc5live panel..Farage claims of UK being most crowded country contradicted by Reckless who agreed with me - Netherlands is!

  16. UKIP and Channel 4published at 11:54 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2015

    UKIP's Steven Woolfe gets a double round of applause as he says "when UKIP come into power, when we win this election... and when we do so Channel 4 by the way, I will be the immigration spokesman not the fantasy person you created."

  17. Stephen Crabbpublished at 11:52 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2015

    House of Commons
    Parliament

    Stephen Crabb

    Welsh Secretary Stephen Crabb answers questions in the Commons.

  18. Tuition feespublished at 11:50 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2015

    Daily Politics
    Live on BBC Two

    On tuition fees, Labour front bencher Hilary Benn rejects the notion that Labour's policy - to reduce them from £9,000 to £6,000 - is "unravelling". He contends that Labour is on the side of students.

  19. Lib Dem electoral fortunespublished at 11:47 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2015

    Daily Politics
    Live on BBC Two

    Lib Dem party president Tim Farron is pressed over the party's prospects at the forthcoming election. He thinks predictions the Lib Dems will lose up to 30 seats will not prove accurate. He says if the election is a "difficult experience" and the party comes through it "then the leader deserves all the credit for bringing us through it".

  20. DailySundayPoliticspublished at 11:47 Greenwich Mean Time 4 March 2015

    Opinion polls trackerImage source, Twitter

    tweets:, external Here are the poll graphics from #bbcdp debate with @afneil @Jo_Coburn @claire4devizes @timfarron @hilarybennmp