Lesley Brennan, Labour's candidate for Dundee Eastpublished at 10:40 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2015
tweets, external: Received donation from Tony Blair. Instinct was to not accept. Discussed with team. Dundee East is not accepting the £1000.
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
Lesley Brennan, Labour's candidate for Dundee Eastpublished at 10:40 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2015
More powerspublished at 10:40 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2015
5 LiveAngus MacNeil says his party isn't interested in ministerial position - it wants more powers for Scotland and a better life for people north of the border.
On Tridentpublished at 10:34 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2015
5 LiveAngus MacNeil, the SNP MP, tells John Pienaar that promises in the Labour manifesto "often don't mean much", in reference to Sadiq Khan's insistence that a commitment to the renewal of Trident will be in his party's soon-to-be-published document. He says the SNP will vote against Trident.
Trident commitmentpublished at 10:30 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2015
5 LiveSadiq Khan says Labour will stick to its plan to renew Trident if it wins the election.
'Jiu-jitsu move'published at 10:29 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2015
5 LiveOn Scotland, Labour's Sadiq Khan says his party doesn't need a coalition with the SNP. He's repeating what Ed Miliband and Caroline Flint have both said this weekend - but again doesn't explicitly rule it out. He says the Conservatives are trying to switch focus from the TV debates row to the SNP issue and calls it "a jiu-jitsu move".
David Singleton, news editor, PoliticsHomepublished at 10:27 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2015
tweets:, external Ukip's Mark Reckless on how to tackle illegal immigration: "We need to be more pro-active in terms of enforcement." #Murnaghan.
Work ban for extremistspublished at 10:26 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2015
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Sadiq Khan, the shadow justice secretary, says new counter-extremism measures which could ban radical Islamists from working unsupervised with children, make "perfect sense". He says the idea of an allegiance to British values is a good thing, but there are some people in the UK who do not understand such rights and responsibilities now.
Peers should 'reflect carefully'published at 10:23 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2015
5 LiveOn the Lords, Baroness Stowell says the chamber exists to give people confidence in Parliament. To maintain and increase that, she says peers who were jailed before 2014 should reflect on whether they should resign from the House. Recent changes in the law mean peers who are jailed for a year or more will be automatically expelled, but the law does not apply retrospectively.
'Move on'published at 10:19 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2015
5 LiveKevin Maguire says Mr Cameron has been making "disingenuous excuses" not to take part in the TV debates and "a bit of honesty" would be good. Baroness Stowell says most people "want us to move on from the TV debates now". Mr Maguire adds: "You want to move on."
TV debatespublished at 10:17 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2015
5 LiveBaroness Stowell says David Cameron made it clear early on he would take part in leaders' debates but didn't want them to dominate the election campaign. The process has been going on "forever", she adds.
Progress on womenpublished at 10:17 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2015
5 LiveIf there was no progress and women were not being allowed to get on in politics, Baroness Stowell says, we would have to look at what we were doing. But progress is being made, she insists.
Kate McCann, Whitehall correspondent at the Sunpublished at 10:16 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2015
tweets:, external Nicky Morgan refuses to comment on "leaked" document about banning extreme speakers in schools but admits there are "concerns" #Murnaghan
Shortlistspublished at 10:16 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2015
5 LiveBaroness Stowell says all-women shortlists are "not what women want" - progress can be made in other ways.
Women in politicspublished at 10:15 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2015
5 LiveOn International Women's Day, Baroness Stowell tells John Pienaar the Tories are doing a "huge amount" to get women into politics. She says there has been a lot of good work done in the party - more female candidates and a female Scottish Conservative leader among them.
Morgan on Murnaghanpublished at 10:14 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2015
Sky NewsEducation Secretary - and Women's Minister - Nicky Morgan is currently appearing on Sky News' Murnaghan programme. She says the tone of the debate in the Commons when two women are at the despatch box is much better than when it's two men.
Pippa Crerar, Evening Standard political reporterpublished at 10:12 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2015
tweets:, external Love @ShippersUnbound 's suggestion that Cameron go on Goggle Box and be filmed watching the TV debates, glass of warming claret in hand.
Stowell on Pienaarpublished at 10:11 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2015
5 LiveBaroness Stowell, the Conservative leader in the House of Lords, is the first guest on Pienaar's Politics. The former secretary says she always wanted to be the best she could - her goal wasn't to be leader of the Lords. Her success, she says, is down to her attitude.
Scotland decides?published at 10:10 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2015
5 LiveKevin Maguire, associate editor of the Daily Mirror, says Scotland is the story on his mind - and the growing feeling that the country may decide the outcome of the entire general election.
TV debatespublished at 10:08 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2015
5 LivePaul Waugh, editor of the website Politics Home, says it seems "almost certain" that any TV debates will have to happen without David Cameron. He thinks there might be one debate, with six party leaders appearing.
Hammond on extremismpublished at 10:07 Greenwich Mean Time 8 March 2015
The Andrew Marr ShowPhilip Hammond has finished speaking to Andrew Marr, but he covered a huge range of subjects in very quick time, so we'll go back over his interview and pick out more snippets for you.
One thing he was asked about was tackling extremism here in the UK, following this story doing the rounds today. Asked if there was going to be a tougher line against extremism - activities that might fall short of criminality but were still very damaging - in Britain, his answer is a definitive "Yes".