Summary

  • Ed Miliband says Labour will not go into coalition with the SNP after the election

  • Nicola Sturgeon promises the SNP can be a "constructive" force at Westminster for the whole of the UK

  • UKIP has been added to the list of parties entitled to at least two party election broadcasts, but the Green Party has not

  • Conservative chairman Grant Shapps faces questions over his outside business interests

  • Danny Alexander launches a review of business rates aimed at making the system fairer

  • There are 52 days until the general election

Live Reporting

Nick Eardley and Angela Harrison

  1. Tomorrow's Guardian

    Guardian front pageGuardian

  4. Tomorrow's Daily Record

    Daily RecordDaily Record

  5. The precariat?

    Clive Myrie

    The BBC's Clive Myrie drew on his own family's history to make an "immersive report" for Panorama on the world of work in Britain today and yesterday.

  6. Laura Kuenssberg, Newsnight chief correspondent

    tweets: #newsnight @nickhopkinsnews exclusive on child abuse; @BBCAllegra talks to @NicolaSturgeon; @edballsmp + Lab arguments ahead of #budget2015

  7. Financial Times front page

    Financial Times front pageFT

  8. Tim Reid, BBC political correspondent

    tweets: All quiet on the #bbc #budget2015 studio front but we will be preview-tastic tomorrow

    BBC studio

  9. End of the issue?

    The Spectator

    Will Ed Miliband's announcement that the Labour party will not go in to formal coalition with the SNP stop attacks from the Conservatives on the issue? Sebastian Payne, over at the Spectator, doesn't think so. He quotes a Tory source saying the party will continue to campaign on the issue. More here.

  10. 'Neck and neck'

    In a blog post, YouGov's Anthony Wells says the most recent polls suggest Labour and the Conservatives "are still neck and neck".

  11. BBC Newsnight

    tweets: Tonight at 22.30 @nickhopkinsnews reveals shocking details of how major paedophile investigation ws shut down after MP arrested #Newsnight

  12. Lobbyists register launch date set

    The BBC has been told the government's new register of lobbyists will go live on 25 March. Registrar Alison White said the register, as promised by the coalition, would be "open for business" and lobbyists could sign up online. The BBC's Tom Moseley has the story here.

  13. Where do I sign?

    David CameronPA

    David Cameron also discussed the TV debates - and online alternatives - in his BuzzFeed interview. The prime minister said: "I'm up for a debate, I'm up for a multi-party debate, whether it is you [BuzzFeed], whether it is another digital debate, whether it is the TV broadcasters, that matters less to me than having a multi-party debate before the campaign gets under way."

    He added: "Everyone's got to agree to it but I've said very clearly - multi-party debate before the campaign, where do I sign?"

  14. James Chapman, Daily Mail political editor

    tweets: Cameron tells Buzzfeed he'll stay on as MP if he loses. If so, would he serve in shad Cab after decent interval? Hague did as former leader

  15. David Cameron interview

    The Daily Telegraph

    David CameronPA

    Here's The Telegraph's take on the David Cameron interview on BuzzFeed. The newspaper writes that the prime minister suggested he will stay as an MP even if he loses the election.

  16. David Cameron's kitchens

    During an interview with BuzzFeed earlier, David Cameron admitted that he had two kitchens, just like Labour leader Ed Miliband. The prime minister told the website he had a second kitchen installed in his house in Notting Hill for the benefit of the carers who looked after his disabled son Ivan, who died in 2009.

    Mr Cameron said: "We actually had to extend into the basement and we put in an extra kitchen, not least because I had a very disabled son, Ivan, and his carers were there and they looked after him and so we did that for them, as well as for him."

    He added: "The point is not whether you have got two kitchens, but whether you have a photocall in one of them and pretend it's your kitchen. That's the issue."

  18. North Sea leader on Budget

    A lot is likely to be said about Wednesday's Budget over the next 48 hours. And tonight, on the BBC, one leading figure from the oil and gas industry has said the budget could be the most important in the history of the industry in the North Sea. Sir Ian Wood, who was commissioned by the government to undertake a review of the whole sector, called for Chancellor George Osborne to take "really significant" action. Mr Osborne is widely expected to announce a change in the North Sea tax regime. More here.

  19. Labour and SNP

    David Cameron talks to Jim Waterson, the deputy editor of Buzzfeed UKGetty Images

    A bit more on that key story about Labour ruling out a formal coalition with the Scottish National Party. The Labour leader Ed Miliband said there would be no SNP ministers in his Cabinet. Commentators say the two parties could still come to a different arrangement short of a coalition, such as a "vote by vote" deal.

    Tonight, in an interview with Buzzfeed, David Cameron said: "Not ruling out a deal, or a pact, or support from the Scottish National Party means that the Labour Party is effectively saying, we're trying to ride to power on the back of a party that wants to break up our country. Now I don't think that is acceptable. The SNP isn't just any old party, they're a party that thinks that the United Kingdom - our country - shouldn't exist. And so I think it is pretty despicable, frankly, not to say 'look there's no dealing with them we're going to do'. And he's not saying that."

  20. Cover-up allegations

    The background to the announcement of an inquiry in to alleged corruption by the Metropolitan police over child sex abuse cases can be found here.