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  1. Gideon - Cuts will be "tough but necessary"
  2. The Guardian has endorsed the Liberal Democrats for next Thursday's election, with an editorial claiming "the liberal moment has come".
  3. Clegg makes terrible snooker related puns, Cameron put contract out of voters and Tony Blair is back.
  4. BBC fears as nation forced to decide: Coronation Street or the debate
  5. The SNP has failed in a last-ditch legal bid today to be included in the final prime ministerial TV debate on the BBC.
  6. Gordon Brown today described a voter as a "bigoted woman" after a discussion on immigration.
  7. Cameron pledged a new rule that if someone takes over as Prime Minister, they must seek election within 6 months of being appointed.
  8. Clegg denies claims of any impropriety. Cameron denies the he briefed against Clegg in preparation for tonight's debate.
  9. CleggMania - symptoms include lucid generic phrasing, splitters in your delicate regions and a unexpected yellow surge.
  10. Brown and Cameron to follow Clegg's lead and be grilled by Jeremy Paxman. Gloves Off.
  11. The leader of the Liberal Democrats Nick Clegg will try to target young voters aged 18-25 in a "message of hope"
  12. Four Sunday polls show a further surge in support for the Liberal Democrats, with a drop for both the Conservatives and Labour.
  13. A long-serving Conservative MEP, expelled in a row over the party's new allies in Europe, has joined the Liberal Democrat.
  14. Former heads of the armed forces have strongly challenged Gordon Brown's evidence to the Iraq war inquiry yesterday on equipment financing.
  15. The arrangements for a live TV debate between the three party leaders have been finalised, marking a first in British political history.
  16. Conservative leader David Cameron has said his party has a "patriotic duty" to beat Labour in the general election.
  17. Gordon Brown denies ordering the "forces of hell" to be unleashed on Alistair Darling for predicting the worst recession for 60 years.
  18. Several people in Gordon Brown's office have contacted an anti-bullying charity,
  19. Great Grimsby MP Austin Mitchell has said he regrets taking part in a TV show which he claimed set out to "humiliate MPs".
  20. A third of students do not know Gordon Brown is the leader of the Labour Party and almost half are unlikely to vote in the upcoming election