A brief look back at what's been happening today:

• Ed Miliband has said a Labour government would impose a cap on the profits private companies can make in the NHS
• BBC News has learned that the Conservatives are considering cutting some welfare benefits if they win the election
• Plaid Cymru launched their election campaign, saying Wales' future is in their party's hands
• The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating more allegations about corruption in the Metropolitan Police
• Reactions and debate continued over the TV appearances last night of David Cameron and Ed Miliband.

That's all from the Politics Live Page for tonight. Thanks for staying with us. We'll be back on Sunday morning from 08:00.

Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State Rachel Reeves has written to Iain Duncan Smith, the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, asking him to write to disability charities setting out the full details of Tory plans, and how they will affect disabled people and carers.

It follows the leaking of documents to the BBC that show options for welfare cuts commissioned by the Conservatives from civil servants. The Conservatives say the options are not party policy and that "it's wrong and misleading to suggest that any of this is part of our plan".

Justine Miliband has pledged to support her husband Ed "as much as possible" in the election campaign. She told the Guardian, external: "I’m looking forward to getting out and talking to voters, and to first-time voters in particular."

The Labour leader's wife dismissed the recent row over the Milibands' second kitchen: "There is a really, really serious side to politics and there is this other side. I just don’t see the point in getting worried about it."

Sky News

Sky News has taken a look, external at some of the more colourful characters who are standing as Independents. Featured candidates include a singer, a sex worker and a sand sculptor all aiming to become MPs.

Image source, Twitter

The Guardian

The latest Opinium/Observer poll, external shows 51% would opt to leave EU compared with 49% who would vote to stay in.

Full poll results here, external.

A charity says carers need more support not less, following reports that the Conservatives asked civil servants to draw up options for welfare cuts. The proposals - seen by the BBC in a leaked document - included one of cutting eligibility for carers' allowance.

Emily Holzhausen, from Carers UK, said: "Caring can come at a huge personal cost to carers, placing a strain on their finances as well as health and well-being.

"Our research shows that over one third of carers could not afford to pay utility bills and 45% were cutting back on food".

BBC News Channel

Responding to leaked documents showing options for welfare cuts drawn up by civil servants for the Conservatives, Labour's shadow employment minister Stephen Timms told the BBC News Channel that people do not want to see "the boot put further into disabled people or carers".

He added that a million people a year were being "forced into destitution" and resorting to food banks.