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In case you're wondering what on earth Joe Murphy is going on about, Lady Victoria Borwick, is a deputy mayor of London, a local councillor for Kensington and Chelsea and has just been selected to replace Sir Malcolm Rifkind as the Conservative party candidate for the parliamentary constituency of Kensington.

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Business Secretary Vince Cable has been talking extensively to the Guardian, external.

He's stated it would be "inconceivable" for the Liberal Democrats to agree to any post-election deal involving the Scottish National Party after the general election - which would also rule out any potential coalition with Labour given that the electoral maths suggest a coalition with the SNP is the most likely way Labour can form a government.

Mr Cable says it would be wrong to "get into tie-ups" with a party committed to the breakup of the UK.

Does Mr Cable harbour leadership ambitions? He tells the newspaper he still expects to play a major role in the next parliament, either in a future Lib Dem coalition or outside government.

And that's it for Any Questions for the evening.

Next up. Following the death of Sir Terry Pratchett on Thursday how do the panel feel about giving individual's the right to die? Suzanne Evans says she doesn't feel they should. Her biggest concern is that there could be abuses of the system and that some people could look for financial gain. Tim Farron says it's "an enormously tricky issue" but that the "bit foggy" law that currently exists is "probably the least worst option".

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Ken Clark says those who thought that Jeremy Clarkson was "a quiet polite well-ordered chap must have had an awful fright".

Next question: Is Jeremy Clarkson an asset or liability? Phil Redmond says there used to be a saying that "what happens on location stays on location". He says he's had to stop "two stars rolling around on the floor" in the past. He says he has dealt with all sorts of incidents as a producer. "For Jeremy Clarkson to turn up two hours late by helicopter... something has already gone wrong," he says.

Mr Redmond points out that making sure the catering is done is one of the most important elements of location shoots especially when your stars "are tired and grumpy". He suggests BBC director general Lord Hall "will sort things out."

Suzanne Evans says the last prime minister we had that came from a grammar school was John Major, She says more and more politicians come from privileged backgrounds. She says the lack of diversity in parliament is part of the problem with politics today. She adds most politicians have "done a PPE".

Next question: Is the government made up of warriors of the dispossessed or the opposite? Ken Clarke says if you're a one nation Tory like him then you believe in free market economics but want to spread the benefits of the wealth that is created by that.

He says former education secretary Michael Gove's reforms of the school system have been hugely beneficial to the dispossessed - a remark that draws boos from the crowd.

Tim Farron says such reforms have set education back and that his colleague David Laws "has been like a centre back man-marking Michael Gove".

Mr Clarke says most modern democracies have parties that engage in dog whistle politics. "In the US it's the Tea Party, In Greece its Syriza, in the UK we have UKIP," he says. He says such parties want to "stop the world and get off", they come up with simple solutions to complex problems, he adds. And the only good thing to say about UKIP is that they have helped rid the UK of "some of the nastier elements" such as the BNP.

Ken Clarke says the UK still needs equality laws because a "small minority of people" in the UK are bigoted, but at the same time the country needs sensible immigration laws. Mr Clarke says Mr Farage has no particular policies on most things. "He never expected to be in the public eye like this," Mr Clark says. Mr Farage is "talking off the top of his head most of the time", Mr Clarke adds. He also claims the majority of UKIP's support comes from former BNP supporters.

So for the first question. Are anti-discrimination laws no longer necessary? Tim Farron accuses UKIP leader Nigel Farage not of dog whistle politics but "fog horn politics". He says Mr Farage's views show that UKIP doesn't back an ethnically diverse society. UKIP's Ms Evans responds that when Mr Farage said "British" the media heard "white British" which was not the case. She points out his comments were from an interview where he was asked what "UKIP land" would look like.

Just a reminder that Any Questions is coming up in a few moments from the Wirral. We'll be bringing you the highlights as they happen. Former Lib Dem president Tim Farron, the creator of Grange Hill and Brookside, Phil Redmond, former Lord Chancellor Ken Clarke and Suzanne Evans, deputy chairman of UKIP, make up the panel tonight.

Here's a snippet more from the opening rally of the Lib Dem spring conference... Paddy Ashdown insisted the party prospects were better than people imagined. At one stage he picked up a toy parrot and said: "This parrot is very much alive, and fighting." He said the parrot he was holding would be auctioned to raise funds at the end of conference.

Tweets, external: Some will win, some will lose, some will sing the blues - sings ominous choir at Lib Dem rally

Mr Ashdown continues by talking to party members about an "opportunity society" which is "free of class and free of discrimination... where every person has the chance to fulfil their potential".

He adds: "This is no longer just a dream, this is not a never-never land, for now we know how to get there. The Lib Dems are on track for success but we are not there yet."

He says the party's aim is to "mend the economy without breaking our society".

Former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown begins his speech at the conference by making reference to T.S Eliot's poem The Waste Land and its first line: "April is the cruellest month.."

"And don't we Lib Dems know it," he quips.

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