tweets:, external This "Balls v Osborne" event makes the drying of paint seem vividly exotic. They aren't even in the same room at the same time.

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What is the business case you could potentially imagine for leaving the EU, a plumber asks the chancellor? George Osborne says business people are the first to complain about red tape from Europe. He thinks he and David Cameron hold the view of the majority of British people - "a better deal for the whole of Europe", while remaining inside it.

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So far, most of those asking questions of the Chancellor over at Sky News are business people.

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When are interest rates going to be back to where they should be - to a level where savers will get some return? - asks the next questioner. The Chancellor George Osborne says having rates so low has supported businesses through a tough time. He says it's better to have a set of policies to help savers directly, rather than just raise interest rates. Policies on savings were, you'll remember, a big part of last week's Budget and Mr Osborne repeats some of them now.

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UKIP would save money by cutting foreign aid, leaving the EU, scrapping the HS2 rail "vanity project", and making changes to Scottish funding, said the party's economic spokesman. Patrick O'Flynn said the party was ready to make "very big spending cuts", as he set out the party's economic plans, speaking from an election campaign event in Greater Manchester. Watch his interview with Jo Coburn

tweets:, external George Osborne is now in the hot seat on @SkyNews! Ed Balls in an hour. Watch your q's answered #AskTheChancellors

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Perched on a stool, Mr Osborne take his first question about getting young people on the housing ladder. He says a strong economy is key, as is helping builders get the finance and land they need, and offering schemes like "Help to Buy" for the young people who want to buy them. There's no single "silver bullet", but there is a "rounded solution" out there, he adds.

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George Osborne is now on Sky News for the first half of the "Ask the Chancellors" event. Labour's Ed Balls will also appear, but not at the same time. It looks like - for today at least - Mr Balls isn't going to get the head-to-head he made his opposite number shake on a few weeks ago.

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Before his policy launch this morning, Nigel Farage took a tour around Concept Metal Products in Middleton, near Manchester. Controversially, he chose to forgo the opportunity to wear a high-vis jacket - the favourite item of attire for every other politician when out and about - and stuck to his trusty coat.

tweets:, external #AskTheChancellors coming live on #skynews - first up #georgeosbourne at 230 answering questions from entrepreneurs and business owners

Norman Smith
BBC Assistant Political Editor

Theresa May wants to throw down a challenge to minority communities to clearly and explicitly disown extremists. She wants them to more publically and vocally express their support for British values. For those on the other side of the line, the new measures she's proposing seem pretty tough. Barring people from speaking in public, shutting down bookshops and reviewing Sharia courts. I imagine there will be quite a tussle to get these measures in force and working - Mrs May hasn't been able to so far, while in a coalition with the Lib Dems. She would argue that she's protecting British values, but others would say she's actually trampling on many of them - such as that of free speech - with these very measures.

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Boris Johnson has been doing his latest Ask Boris session on Twitter. One of the questions the London mayor was asked was whether he'd like to see Jeremy Clarkson back on Top Gear. In inimitable Boris style, he replied:, external am mega clarkson fan but if a vacancy wd def let my name go forward.

Robin Brant
Political Correspondent, BBC News

Nigel Farage came to Middleton to remind the voters here - a supposedly safe Labour seat - of the by-election UKIP so nearly won last year. He also wants to increase the pressure on the Tories with that spending commitment on defence - something David Cameron is yet to pledge. UKIP was throwing a lot of numbers around - more for the military, more for the NHS, fewer people paying the higher rate of tax. All achievable, it says, under a UKIP government that would save (a massive) £25bn by leaving he EU, ditching HS2 and taking an axe to the bulk of foreign aid. It's all an attempt to make the party more credible on a raft of policies as the election approaches. All rubbish, though, say the Tories, who claim the foreign aid money alone has been 'spent' 16 different ways, so far.

tweets:, external Tories querying UKIP costings. UKIP say they're being verified by independent organisation & will be spelled out fully when launch manifesto

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Earlier on the Daily Politics, deputy leader of the SNP Stewart Hosie accused Ed Miliband of losing the plot. He said Ed Miliband would be "very foolish" to rule out a deal that could block a future Tory government. Mr Hosie said the SNP wanted to see "a real end to austerity", more powers for Scotland, and no renewal of Trident weapons.

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One of the protesters who targeted the UKIP leader having Sunday lunch in a pub claimed "our target was never Nigel Farage's family". Dan Glass from Stand Up to UKIP said it was not a protest, "but a celebration of diversity".

UKIP MEP Patrick Flynn said Mr Glass and the protesters were "pretty reprehensible and sickening". He said UKIP had received four million votes at the ballot boxes, and protesters should consider standing for election if they had so much support for their ideas.

Watch the pair speak with Jo Coburn on Monday's Daily Politics, 24 hours after the incident in Downe, south London, where the party leader described those who took part as "scum".

Rob Broomby, British Affairs correspondent for the BBC World Service , is travelling around the UK looking at the impact of migrants on different communities.

Dover - the symbol of fortress Britain - is the point of arrival for thousands of passengers, trucks and cars each day, but it is also a major route into the UK for illegal immigrants and asylum seekers too. Last year the UK government received almost 25,000 asylum applications and 41 % were accepted as genuine and more still on appeal. I heard from Rebwar - an Iraqi Kurd - who smuggled himself across the Channel in a truck aged 17. He is now 25 and has been granted indefinite leave to remain. He described a perilous journey from Iraq in which his boat almost sank in the Mediterranean. He crossed the continent and then smuggled himself over the Channel in a truck risking life and limb. He begins his story the day he learned his two brothers - Iraqi Kurdish policemen - had been kidnapped and murdered. Listen to Rebwar's story., external

tweets, external: The #Budget2015 debates come to a welcome conclusion at 10pm, followed by a vote (s) on the Budget Resolutions.

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tweets, external: .@Conservatives attack #ukip spending plans, say @Nigel_Farage has spent savings from the international aid budget in 16 different ways