In a blog for Labour's Progress group, MP Jamie Reed looks back at the week: Cameron,Clarkson and the Chipping Norton way, external .

Alex Krasodomski considers the role twitter will play in the election. Writing in the Spectator, external, the Demos social media analyst says: "A million people expressing the same opinion can be a mob," but he concludes "In the end, that’s perhaps the unfortunate price to pay. If you need more evidence about the democratic role social media can play, take a look at the countries which suppress it."

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The governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, says he does not expect interest rates to be cut further. He told a conference in Frankfurt that the next move in interest rates - currently at half a percent - would be up.

Writing in The Spectator, Rod Liddle accuses the BBC and other media of starving UKIP of publicity, external - unless it's negative.

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PoliticsHome carries the story, external that more than 400 people have complained to Ofcom and Channel 4 suggesting there was bias against Ed Miliband during last night’s leader interview.

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Talking about new rules for England and Wales whereby convicted criminals will have to pay up to £1,200 towards the cost of their court cases, Frances Crook, of the Howard League for Penal Reform asks: "Do we really want to go back to the days of the debtors’ prisons?, external "

More on that additional £1 million being given to Labour by the Unite union. General secretary Len McCluskey said the union was keeping to its promise that it would not stand by and see a one-sided election fight against a Conservative party "made fat on the gifts from the shady and the super wealthy." He said the money from Unite members was "clean, democratically-sanctioned and honestly accounted for".

Britain is to provide £5 million to help international efforts to tackle terror group Boko Haram, the Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said. The money is to support a new regional task force designed to target the Islamic extremists in northern Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin area. Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin will contribute to the task force, which has been authorised by the African Union. Talks are taking place in New York to endorse the unit via a United Nations' security resolution.

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LabourList is reporting, external chaotic machinations at Coventry North West with uncertainty over whether sitting Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson will step down or not.

Downing Street has announced the date of the Queen's Speech . It will be 19 days after the general election.

The Unite union has given a further £1 million donation to Labour, bringing the total to £3.5 million since December, it has said.

Civil Service World, external is reporting that Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood is making diversity in Whitehall a priority, following a trio of "worrying" reports highlighting the barriers facing recruitment from under-represented groups.

Sir Jeremy said: "As long as I’m head of the civil service this will be one of the top priorities and we will relentlessly focus on it, year-in, year-out.”

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Good afternoon. The Politics Live team is changing over and will be with you until midnight. Lots to come this evening, but first a look back at what's been happening:

• Ed Miliband has launched Labour's general election campaign with a promise to safeguard the NHS, saying Labour would stop ''the tide of privatisation" and cap the profits made by private health companies from the NHS
• Plaid Cymru have launched their election campaign, saying more Plaid MPs would mean Wales was no longer "over-looked and marginalised"
• Pundits and politicians continue to debate who was the winner in last night's TV appearances by David Cameron and Ed Miliband
• Three more allegations that the Metropolitan Police covered up child sex offences are to be investigated by the police watchdog, the IPCC.