tweets:, external Naming his successors - what was Cameron thinking. He's fired the Tory leadership starting gun into his foot.

tweets:, external Back me to sack me? Cameron saying he wouldn't serve a 3rd term(before winning a 2nd!) repeats Blair's mistake. Clock ticking

Mr Cameron also revealed that his eldest daughter, Nancy, was campaigning to get Jeremy Clarkson reinstated as the presenter of Top Gear. Mr Clarkson is a family friend and neighbour in Mr Cameron's Oxfordshire constituency. The Prime Minister joked: "Nancy has threatened to go on hunger strike unless Jeremy Clarkson is restored. I told her this is not necessarily a useful intervention. It is not exactly Gandhi."

You can find all the details of David Cameron's interview with James Landale, Deputy Political Editor, BBC News, here.

James Landale
Deputy Political Editor, BBC News

BBC Deputy Political Editor, James Landale: "Mr Cameron's admission that he will not stay in office beyond two terms will electrify the election campaign. Not only will this kick-start a lengthy Tory leadership contest, it will also send a message to voters that if they back the Prime Minister now, he would not go on and on as some previous prime ministers have done. But it is quite a gamble. There is a risk that some voters will think Mr Cameron is being arrogant for presuming the result of an election that could see him dismissed from Downing Street in a matter of weeks".

David Cameron has told the BBC he will not serve a third term as prime minister if the Conservatives remain in government after the general election. The PM said if re-elected he would serve the full five years of another Parliament and then leave Number 10. After that, he said, "it will be time for new leadership". Mr Cameron tipped Home Secretary Theresa May, Chancellor George Osborne and London Mayor Boris Johnson as potential successors.

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For Labour, Rachel Reeves said the last five years had been a tragic waste for working people. They had been put through five years of hardship but were still waiting to feel the benefits of what had been the weakest recovery in more than a hundred years.

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Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has opened the final session of debate on the budget. He begins, as many speeches by the government front bench currently do, by telling MPs that "at the start of this parliament we inherited an economy that had suffered a greater collapse than perhaps any other country". The economy has now "grown faster than any other major advanced economy" and this has been down to the "remarkable performance of our labour market", he tells MPs.

BBC Radio 4

Tory councillor in Dudley Les Jones has told PM he feels "relief" Afzal Amin has resigned as party candidate for Dudley North. "I think he should have made this decision immediately", Mr Jones said. "The evidence from those tapes was irrefutable and it was never going to end well."

He added on Mr Amin's interview on Today this morning: "I was quite surprised. It seemed a little bizarre - it was almost to me as if he was in denial. I believe in straight forward politics and that didn't sound very much like straight forward politics to me."

He said he hoped people would see it was an individual decision made by Mr Amin.

The Guardian

The row over Afzal Amin's discussions with the English Defence League and subsequent resignation as a Conservative candidate at the upcoming general election raises the questions of whether it is ever useful for the mainstream parties to talk to a group like the EDL. The Guardian stages a debate, external between Diane Abbott and Padraig Reidy.

The Huffington Post

Former Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman - once rumoured to be a potential Conservative politician - has been talking ahead of his election interviews later this week with David Cameron and Ed Miliband, the Huffington Post reports, external. Speaking at the Advertising Week conference in London, Paxman confirmed he had been "tapped up" by the Conservatives to run for the Kensington seat being vacated by Sir Malcolm Rifkind and described Mr Cameron as a "very effective" media performer.

Rob Broomby
British affairs correspondent, BBC World Service

With day one of our World Service Immigration road trip almost done we've heard from trucker Clive Mills about the problem of preventing illegals getting aboard lorries in Dover and from would-be illegals in Calais talking of their determination to reach the UK - including an Afghan who has been deported once already.

In Dover too, voters Eric and Valerie McGee encapsulate the problem: Eric says there are too many immigrants, while Valerie says many employers would be in trouble without migrant labour and that the UK does need doctors and nurses.

Both agree people fleeing genuine persecution should have protection in the UK.

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Labour shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Ashworth said: "It's right that Afzal Amin has gone but what on earth took so long? Given the serious allegations involved it was obvious that David Cameron should have expelled him immediately. Instead he dithered until the candidate himself jumped before he was pushed...This deeply damaging episode has exposed a Conservative campaign in chaos and a prime minister paralysed by indecision."

Jane Peel
BBC News Correspondent

The Chief Inspector of Prisons, Nick Hardwick, has attacked what he says were the "catastrophic failures" surrounding the release of three inmates on temporary licence - who went on to commit further serious offences. In a report, he says the system for releasing prisoners early, as part of their rehabilitation programme, needs to be "better managed".

The men were freed on temporary licence within the space of just two months in 2013. Ian McLoughlin, who'd been serving life for murder, was released from Springhill open prison. The same day he went to the home of a convicted sex offender and stabbed to death a neighbour who intervened in an altercation between the two men. Al-Foday Fofanah attempted to carry out an armed bank robbery the day he was released from Ford open prison. A third man, who can't be identified, is awaiting trial for a serious offence allegedly committed while he was on temporary licence.

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Mr Maude tells MPs there will be a new approach to government-owned land and property "based on central ownership" which will introduce "market-level rents" and provide greater incentives for departments to "rationalise their space". Central government will also roll out the increased use of digital services, which are "significantly cheaper to provide", to local government and reduce the cost of technology in government. This will also include a new "joint venture for data hosting" to save an additional £100m, he says.

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In a statement on government efficiency and reform, the minister for the cabinet office, Francis Maude, says the government has achieved "unprecedented levels of savings" since taking over in 2010, saving "£3.75bn, £5.5bn and £10bn in successive years compared with Labour," he says.

Part of the famous "long-term economic plan" was to save £20bn though government efficiency and reform in the last year of this parliament, and the government are "on course to exceed this target," he adds.

tweets:, external Afzal Amin resigns from Conservative Party. Does that mean he's planning to run as an independent?

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SNP MP Pete Wishart asks what happens if the UK votes to leave and Scotland votes to remain part of the European Union. Will Scottish people have to "put up with being yanked out [of Europe] against their will?" he asks. Mr Wishart suggests "all of the UK's siblings" should agree on what will happen before any referendum. David Cameron says the SNP lost their last referendum and "they'll lose the next one".

A Conservative spokesman said: "Afzal Amin is resigning as Conservative candidate for Dudley North with immediate effect.

"Conservative Chairman Grant Shapps has welcomed Mr Amin's decision and thanked him for his work in the past."

A reminder of the background to the Afazl Amin story....He resigned as Conservative Party election candidate for Dudley North after being accused of scheming with the English Defence League to announce an inflammatory march against a new "mega-mosque" in Dudley and then take the credit for defusing the resulting tensions. The would-be MP was reportedly filmed by former EDL leader Tommy Robinson, who blew the whistle on the plot because he objected to being used as a pawn.

Mr Amin had been due to defend his actions at a Conservative disciplinary hearing tomorrow. .

Speaking before his resignation, Mr Amin told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme what had been suggested was "very normal conflict resolution, confidence-building measures".

Labour's Ian Austin held Dudley North with a majority of just 649 in 2010. The surprise loss of their candidate represents a setback for Conservative hopes of snatching the seat.