Labour
Labour candidates Eleanor Tunnicliffe and Brian Tomlinson will take part in a general election hustings chaired by Bamber Gascoigne at Duke St Baptist Church, Richmond (7.30pm). Chancellor Alistair Darling debates with Conservative shadow chancellor George Osborne and Lib Dem finance spokesman Vince Cable on BBC2’s The Daily Politics (see below).
Conservatives
Former defence secretary Malcolm Rifkind will present Conservative defence policy ahead of the 6 May general election at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence & Security Studies in London (5.30pm). David Cameron will make an appearance on BBC3’s Dermot Meets…programme this evening (see below). Shadow chancellor George Osborne debates with Chancellor Alistair Darling and Lib Dem finance spokesman Vince Cable on BBC2’s The Daily Politics’ (see below). Conservative candidates Zac Goldsmith and Deborah Thomas will take part in a general election hustings chaired by Bamber Gascoigne at Duke St Baptist Church, Richmond (7.30pm).
Liberal Democrats
Nick Clegg has an early start as he hosts a press conference with Lib Dem spokesperson for children, schools and families at the Work Foundation in London (7.30am). He later joins Lib Dem candidate for Camborne and Redruth Julia Goldsworthy in primary school Q&A on the campaign trail at Redruth Cricket Club, Trewirgie Hill, Cornwall (2.30pm, before making an appearance on BBC3’s Dermot Meets… programme this evening (see below). Lib Dem finance spokesman Vince Cable debates with Chancellor Alistair Darling and shadow chancellor George Osborne on BBC2’s The Daily Politics (see below). He may also join Lib Dem candidate Susan Kramer in a general election hustings chaired by Bamber Gascoigne at Duke St Baptist Church, Richmond this evening (7.30pm).
The media
BNP leader Nick Griffin spoke on Radio 4’s Today programme this morning. In the afternoon, Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg will take part in a special election call edition of Radio 4’s The World at One programme, where he will respond to comments and questions from listeners (1pm). Chancellor Alistair Darling, Conservative shadow chancellor George Osborne and Lib Dem finance spokesman Vince Cable will debate economic policy on BBC2’s The Daily Politics’ (2.15pm), where they will be put through their paces by Andrew Neil and BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders. David Cameron and Nick Clegg will be interviewed by Dermot O’Leary for BBC3 on the Dermot Meets… programme. The interview with David Cameron will air at 8pm followed by Nick Clegg at 8.30pm. The emphasis will be on questions submitted by first-time voters.
Other parties
Scottish National Party leader and First Minister Alex Salmond will give a speech at the Scottish Trades Union Congress conference in Caird Hall, Dundee today. In Belfast, the Social Democratic and Labour Party from Northern Ireland launches its manifesto at 10am. The nationalist party from Northern Ireland won three Westminster seats in 2005, as they had in 1997 and 2001.
Away from the campaign
A fleet of coaches laid on by the government to bring Britons stranded in Europe by the ash cloud sets out from Madrid today. HMS Albion is expected to arrive in Portsmouth tonight at the earliest, after setting sail from Santander in northern Spain yesterday, to repatriate British troops returned from Afghanistan and around 200 priority British civilians who were stranded on the continent. HMS Ocean and HMS Ark Royal have both been sent to service unspecified ports on the Channel, as thousands of British travellers continue to gather there.
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