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The Scottish Conservatives are not the only party gathering together in anticipation of important elections in May.

Plaid Cymru is hosting its last get-together before the Welsh Assembly polls, with its leader Leanne Wood set to argue that Wales is "crying out for new leadership" after 17 years of Labour rule.

She dismissed Labour and Conservative claims the assembly election in May was a two-way contest between them.

Speaking before her party's conference in Llanelli, Ms Wood stressed the NHS as a key priority for Plaid Cymru. She rejected the idea of a coalition with the Tories, but said she was ruling out nothing else. Read more

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Facebook is set to pay millions of pounds more in tax in the UK after a fundamental overhaul of its tax structure.

After heavy criticism that it was avoiding tax, the BBC can reveal that profits from the majority of Facebook's advertising revenue initiated in Britain will now be taxed in the UK.

The company will no longer route sales through Ireland for its largest advertisers.

That includes consumer businesses such as Unilever, major retailers such as Tesco and Sainsbury's and major advertising giants such as WPP.

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BBC Scotland's political editor Brian Taylor is putting your questions to Scottish Conservative Party leader Ruth Davidson ahead of her speech to the party's conference in Edinburgh.

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Obviously the PM's focus in Scotland is not solely on the EU referendum. There are elections to the Scottish Parliament on the horizon, with the Conservatives looking to improve on their performance in 2011.

In his speech later, the prime minister will warn that Scotland risks becoming a "one-party state" under the SNP.

The prime minister will attempt to portray the SNP as Scotland's establishment party and will outline what he will describe as the SNP's "litany of failure" while in power at Holyrood.

Opinion polls suggest the Conservatives are in a race with Labour for second place ahead of May's Holyrood election. Read more

BBC Scotland's political editor Brian Taylor is putting your questions to Scottish Conservative Party leader Ruth Davidson ahead of the party's conference in Edinburgh.

Watch live coverage online on Friday between 08:45 and 09:15, from 11:45 to 13:45, and from 14:45 to 16:45 when Conference 2016 will also be shown on BBC One Scotland.

You can also follow our coverage on our Scottish politics index.

We have a busy day in prospect with David Cameron, Liam Fox, Michael Fallon and Ruth Davidson all addressing the Scottish Conservatives Spring Conference. All this against a backdrop of growing acrimony in the party about the conduct of the EU referendum campaign. Mr Fox and Iain Duncan Smith, who both support EU exit, have been among those to warn that the Remain side's arguments and rhetoric risk poisoning the well and making it harder for the party to unite after the 23 June referendum vote. 

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The Scottish Conservative leader has called on voters in Scotland to back the Conservatives as the only credible opposition to the SNP.

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Speaking ahead of her party's conference in Edinburgh later, Ruth Davidson accused Labour of failing to challenge the Nationalists, since they came to power in 2007.

Speaking on Good Morning Scotland, Ms Davidson said: "We can read a poll as well as the next person and all the polls at the moment are telling us that there is one party that is out in front.

"What people across Scotland want to see is someone that's really going to challenge that party and put them under pressure - that's going to test their ideas and can be the sort of opposition that we've just not seen in Scotland for the last nine years.

"I would go as far as to say that in nine years as official Scottish opposition, the Labour Party just hasn't laid a glove on the SNP."

Iain Duncan Smith says the "smear" tactics used by the campaign to stay in the EU risk long-term damage to the government.

The Home Office risks undermining Britain's security if it does not get a grip on its much-delayed e-borders scheme, a committee of MPs says.

Only the Tories can challenge the SNP and prevent Scotland becoming a "one party state", David Cameron tells a gathering of Scottish party members.

An audience member cites Britain Stronger In chairman Lord Rose’s comments yesterday, that wages would probably rise in the UK if it left the EU - and, with that in mind, challenges Labour’s decision to support continued membership.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell says the party wants to reform Europe to “protect wages” and enforce trade union rights and secure long-term investment.

He rejects the notion put to him that he and Mr Corbyn have not been out campaigning much, saying Labour has been “crowded out” by the media because of coverage of Tory divisions over Europe. He adds:

UKIP MEP and health spokeswoman Louise Bours says she’s sure scare tactics will continue to be used throughout the campaign - but suggests it's coming from the In campaign, not those pushing for a vote to leave.

Making her case for Britain to leave the EU, she says the UK has "tremendous influence in the world" and thinks that case isn’t been made enough. She also challenges remarks made earlier by Mr McDonnell and says it is Nato, not the EU, that has kept peace in Europe.

On the row between the different leave campaigns, she says she wished those running them would “put their egos aside” and join together in the common interest.

Footballer Jermaine Jenas says he doesn’t feel like he’s being given enough facts from either side of the campaign to make an educated decision on the referendum. He thinks there have been “scaremongering tactics” – but says it’s a familiar tactic in football.

Meanwhile, Guardian columnist Zoe Williams says she thinks the Out campaigners have been making a better “hope” case and she would like to see the In campaign replicate that.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell says the campaign needs to “calm down a bit”, adding that most people “just want a sensible, rational debate” – which is met with some applause. He says he voted against joining the European common market in 1975 but he’s now of the view that the UK should stay in the EU, because withdrawing at a time of “fragility” in the economy “would set us backward”. He also argues that the UK can better secure peace and combat climate change by being a member.

The first question is on the EU referendum and whether the campaign who scares people the most will win.

Justice minister Dominic Raab - who supports an EU exit – says there’s been lots of "scaremongering" from the In campaign.

“I think we need to debate the substance of this,” he says, before explaining why he thinks the UK would be better off out of the EU - namely that it would “bring back democratic control” to the UK.

The City of London Corporation votes "overwhelmingly" to support the campaign for Britain to remain in the EU.

Comments by the French finance minister have triggered a row between opposing camps in the EU referendum. Emmanuel Macron told the Financial Times, external his country could end UK border controls in Calais if the UK votes to leave the EU. Out campaigners including Boris Johnson dismissed his warning as scaremongering.

David Cameron and Francois Hollande were asked about his intervention at a press conference - the French president said there would be "consequences" if the UK voted to leave.

Labour's Jeremy Corbyn, meanwhile, addressed business leaders at the British Chambers of Commerce conference, setting out his vision of a "new economics".

Question Time and This Week are still to come - you can watch on the Live Coverage tab above.

David Cameron's jibe at Leave EU campaigners that they are indulging in "David Icke-style" conspiracy theories has provoked a response from the man himself.

For younger readers, Icke is a former Coventry City goalkeeper and BBC sports presenter who gained brief notoriety in the 1990s for declaring that he was the son of God, before going in to a career as conspiracy theorist author and speaker.

He ran in the Haltemprice and Howden by-election in 2008 which he described as an opportunity to highlight the "rapidly emerging - and global - Big Brother State".

Icke says on his blog: