tweets:, external Umunna suggests the aim should be to push power down and do less at the centre #labourgovernment

Shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna is speaking to a Labour List event, external right now. He says his party must "own the positive story" at this election - to show they are different from the Conservatives who have nothing to say beyond cuts. He goes on: "We do believe in the state, we don't see austerity as an opportunity to hack off massive chunks of the state."

The Sun

The prime minister has given unprecedented access to a new Sun website, Sun Nation, for what it calls its 'Cam Cam'. As well as following David Cameron around, its organisers even persuaded the PM to wear a head camera, allowing viewers to see the world 'through the prime minister's eyes' for the first time. In the film Cameron also offers a rundown of his typical Tuesday:

• Working from 6 to "about 8"

• Shower, breakfast with kids, downstairs by 8:20

• Meeting with Conservative ministers 8:30 to 9:15

• Cabinet 9:30 to 10:30

• Radio interviews, record messages

• 4:00 daily meeting with Tory colleagues

• PMQs prep

• Audience with the Queen

• Leaving party for advisers

• More PMQs prep

• Up to the Downing Street flat around 7.45

tweets:, external Taking less tax from a dead person's estate is not "a giveaway".

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BBC Radio 4 Today

Roy Ramm, former commander of special operations at Scotland Yard, is more upbeat about the prospects of ex-police officers involved in the Cyril Smith child abuse probe volunteering information. "I think that the publicity surrounding this now may well bring police officers who were warned and threatened forward," he tells the Today programme. But he agrees with criminologist Roger Graeff that the threat of the Official Secrets Act needs to be removed. That comment puts pressure on ministers, who may be pressed about it in Parliament later.

BBC Radio 4 Today

Roger Graeff, criminologist and film-maker, fears it will be hard for the truth to come out over historic child abuse claims from the 1970s. There's the Official Secrets Act, "which has to be very clearly removed before the people directly involved would come forward". And then there's "so much fear and threat and cover-up and destruction of evidence" that "trying to prove" the allegations "at this distance" is hard to envisage, he tells Today.

The Sun

"The prime minister is desperate to offer voters some sunshine, not just the grim necessity of his long-term plan." That, according to the Sun's leader today, is part of the thinking behind the decision to raise the minimum wage.

BBC Radio 4 Today

"I would have found it fairly unconvincing," former Scotland Yard special operations commander Roy Ramm says of the story that police officers investigating child abuse in the 1980s were threatened with losing their job if they referred to the abandoned probe. "I think I would have gone public and sought support from the media."

BBC Radio 4 Today

Newsnight's disclosure about the Cyril Smith child abuse programme is now being discussed on Today by Roy Ramm, former commander of special operations at Scotland Yard (1993-96) and Roger Graeff, a criminologist and film-maker. "It's really quite frightening," Mr Ramm says. "The abandonment of that investigation would not have come without very senior and significant political intervention." Desktop readers can listen in on the live coverage tab above.

Reality Check

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Following Ken Clarke's comments about the Fixed Term Parliament Act being a "mistake", here's a run-down of what the legislation actually means:

• The Fixed Term Parliament Act, passed in 2011 to secure the stability of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition, removed the prime minister's ability to hold an election at the time most advantageous to him or her

• General elections now take place every five years unless two-thirds of MPs vote to "go to the country" early

• If a government falls because it loses a vote of no confidence - which can happen with a straightforward majority - the prime minister is expected to resign

• An election will then take place within 14 days unless another government can win a confidence vote

• The legislation is scheduled to be reviewed between June and November 2020

• But Mr Clarke says "tea-room chats" are already taking place to find another way around the Act

The Guardian

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Polly Toynbee, writing in the Guardian, external, is somewhat baffled by Labour's inability to generate real "outrage" at the coalition's activities. "Miliband doesn't burn with fury," she complains. "Labour MPs - the class of 2010 especially - seem lacking in anger and hunger to oust the Tories, as if being an MP is enough. Oddly, some old hands have more fire in their bellies." While the Labour leader's themes are sound, she says, they're not being emphasised with sufficient vigour. "High risk?" Toynbee concludes. "The risk of going gently into that electoral goodnight is greater."

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As Westminster contemplates another hung parliament, former coalition cabinet minister Ken Clarke has said he believes the Fixed Term Parliament Act ensuring elections only take place every five years was a "mistake". He's told a BBC documentary, "What Happens When the People Say Not Sure", that this major piece of constitutional change only came about because the Tories and Lib Dems each feared they were "going to be double-crossed" by the other party. Now, he says, "tea-room chats" are taking place in Westminster to try and work out how a second election could take place in the "anarchic situation" of the general election not producing an overall winner. Read our story on his comments here.

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New Statesman

The New Statesman has summed, external up the five things it thinks we learned from David Cameron's Buzzfeed interview yesterday., external Among them, the PM has two kitchens and Christian Benteke is his favourite Aston Villa player. "That the stories that came out of the interview are of the 'And finally...' genre, and will be largely overshadowed by the Budget, will be regarded as a win in Downing Street," the New Statesman says.

BBC News Channel

Housing minister Brandon Lewis has just been on BBC Breakfast defending the government's record - and playing the blame game. "We haven't built enough homes in this country for a very long time. In 2010 we inherited the lowest level of building since 1923," he says. Housing associations, which enjoyed a surplus last year, need to build more homes too, Mr Lewis adds. But he says progress is being made. "On our current trajectory we'll be building around 200,000 new homes in 2017. We need to go further… while protecting that green and pleasant land that we love so much in this country." He points out the government's affordable housing programme is helping first-time-buyers and says 100,000 more homes will be built than otherwise because of a change of building regulation rules.

A bit more from David Cameron's interview with Good Morning Britain. Unsurprisingly, he refused to go into what would happen in the event of a hung parliament. He insisted that winning an overall majority for the Conservatives "can be done", but "if I fall short, you can ask me the next day what I'll do about it".

BBC Radio 4 Today

Newsnight's investigations correspondent Nick Smith has been on the Today programme outlining more details of his story about the Cyril Smith child abuse probe. Investigators were nearly ready to begin mounting prosecutions when they were called into a room and told to hand over their notebooks and all their evidence, he says, They were warned that if they spoke of the probe again they'd be breaking the Official Secrets Act - and told if they kept quiet they may get career advancement. The Independent Police Complaints Commission is looking at this but, instead of starting a new investigation, has decided to manage the ongoing Scotland Yard probe.

tweets:, external @David_Cameron tells @GMB chances of an EU referendum in 2015 - as demanded by #Ukip - are "pretty slim"

The Daily Mail

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Sketchwriter Quentin Letts was on enemy territory yesterday - at least, that's how he saw it - as he watched Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon at the "sacred wigwam of Fabianism", the London School of Economics. "They preferred her to Miliband by a mile," he wrote for the Daily Mail, external. "Yesterday she might as well have been the leader of the opposition. She had the poise, the mischief, the neck." Amid speculation over a possible Labour-SNP government Ms Sturgeon was outlining how the SNP could bring "positive change across the UK" even as Ed Miliband ruled out a formal coalition with the nationalists. Letts added: "After flashing her majorities at Mr Miliband, she came over all modest and said of course one had to wait until after polling day, for the voters must nae be taken for granted. Yeah yeah."