Summary

  • Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond says the UK and Russia will continue to have a "prickly relationship" if there is no clear change in Vladimir Putin's intentions towards Ukraine

  • Mr Hammond refuses to commit to meeting Nato's target of 2% of GDP being spent on defence if the Conservatives win in May

  • Ed Miliband says he would pass a law guaranteeing TV debates in all future general elections

  • Labour candidate Lesley Brennan turns down a £1,000 donation to her campaign from Tony Blair

  • Reports suggest the government is considering banning radical Islamists from working unsupervised with children

  • There are 60 days until the general election

Live Reporting

Nick Eardley and Victoria King

  1. 'Sensible'

    Sunday Politics

    Are we seeing a progressive alliance in UK politics? Janan Ganesh says yes, because Labour has had to be sensible about austerity.

  2. tweets: Would be good if broadcasters exercised as much time asking David Cameron to rule out coalitions with the various minority parties #GE2015

  3. 'No coalition'

    Sky News

    "We don't want to have a coalition with anyone," Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman says.

  4. 'Prickly relationship'

    Philip Hammond

    A bit more on Philip Hammond's comments on the Andrew Marr show earlier. He predicted the UK and Russia would continue to have a "prickly relationship" with no clear change in Vladimir Putin's intentions in Ukraine. And the foreign secretary said Moscow had chosen to enter a "strategic competition" with the West rather than being an ally. Here's our story.

  5. More on a deal

    Sunday Politics

    Guests on the Sunday Politics

    The FT's Janan Ganesh says Ed Miliband should rule out a deal with the SNP. "It probably won't happen anyway," he says, and it would make things easier for candidates always being asked questions about a deal (and giving the same answer, as we've seen this morning).

    Nick Watt, from the Guardian, says ruling out a deal would be portrayed as being "anti-Scottish" by the SNP.

  6. Brown's seat

    Sunday Politics

    Helen Lewis, from the New Statesman, says the scale of change in Scotland is "shocking". She points to a poll suggesting Labour could lose Kirkcaldy - its safest Scottish seat last time and Gordon Brown's constituency.

  7. Kate McCann, Whitehall correspondent at the Sun

    tweets: "All male teams will make different sorts of decisions" Harriet Harman tells #Murnaghan - that's why we need more women in politics

  8. Cameron 'boost'

    Sunday Politics

    The Scottish people don't believe Labour's scare tactics, Andrew Neil suggests to Margaret Curran. She says you don't vote for coalitions at an election, you vote for a party and every Labour seat lost "is a direct boost" for David Cameron.

  9. SNP question

    Sunday Politics

    "I am getting frustrated with you," says Margaret Curran, as she's still being pressed by Andrew Neil to rule out a deal with the SNP. She says she wants to talk about the issues her constituents are facing in Glasgow East.

  10. 'Dead heat'

    Sunday Politics

    Margaret Curran, Labour's shadow Scottish secretary

    We're not planning a deal with the SNP, Margaret Curran says. If you look at polling in Scotland, it's a dead heat between Labour and the Conservatives to win the election, she says. "If you don't vote Labour, you could actually get the Tories back," she adds.

  11. Scottish Labour

    Sunday Politics

    Margaret Curran, Labour's shadow secretary for Scotland, tells Sunday Politics that Scottish Labour is "moving forward". She denies a story which said Scottish MPs called on Ed Miliband to rule out a deal with the SNP is accurate.

  12. Patrick Wintour, political editor of the Guardian

    tweets: Sturgeon's vow "SNP will never, ever, put the Tories in government". So if Lab rejects SNP deal, no downside. So keep in play for LD talks ?

  13. Andrew Neil

    tweets: Sunday Politics coming on NOW!!! BBC1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  14. Nicky Morgan on women in politics

    Sky News

    Over on Sky News, Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has been talking about the role of women in politics. She says David Cameron is a feminist and. She told the Murnaghan programme: "He [Mr Cameron] absolutely is a feminist. He is on the side of women and he has done a huge amount to get women into the cabinet.

    "You think about all the women who are in the cabinet at the moment, they are Conservatives. The Lib Dems have not put any women MPs into the cabinet.

    "The prime minister is absolutely on the side of making sure that women have the best possible opportunities, as is the chancellor, as are, I think, all of my male colleagues."

  15. David Singleton, news editor, PoliticsHome.

    tweets: TUC boss Frances O'Grady says there's a need for more women in Parliament, but she doesn't want "golden skirts" #Murnaghan

  16. 'Pathetic record'

    5 Live

    Lib Dem MP Tessa Munt says her party's record on getting more women into Parliament is "pathetic", but "it's not for the want of trying". She said lots of women stand for the party, but the Lib Dems have fewer safe seats so it is harder to get them elected.

  17. 'Shocking' inequality

    5 Live

    Labour's Heidi Alexander says she has never experienced sexism in her party or in the Commons chamber. But she says there are things in politics that could done differently and that the rate of female MPs is "shocking" in 2015.

  18. Jason Beattie, @DailyMirror political editor

    tweets: And of course, the only party to have done a deal with the SNP is the Tories which propped up Salmond in Holyrood from 2007-11

  19. Women's Day

    5 Live

    Laura Sandys - Tory MP for South Thanet - says Parliament is obsessed with gender and background, not what people want to achieve. We need diversity of personalities, not just gender, she adds.

  20. Ed Miliband, Labour leader

    tweets: We must make sure we have true equality not just in law, but in our economy, our society and our culture. #IWD2015