WEDNESDAY 14th APRIL

Elsewhere
Ed Wallis at Next Left: Why Cameron is heir to Alastair Campbell
Mark Pack at LDV: Buckingham Palace, the Bank of England and a donation to Tories
New Statesman, Mehdi Hasan: The myth of the “big society”
Adam Bienkov at Tory Troll: Tories “in it together” with underage drink sales

Across Liberal Conspiracy

2:35pm: Westminster: Election sexism watch

2pm update: Nick Clegg launches manifesto

Westminster: Tories wrong on lobbyists register
Westminster: – ‘Where are your spending cuts?’ asks right-wing think of the Conservative party
Westminster: Charles Kennedy joins Libdem electoral reform group
Media: Tory PPC challenges anti-BBC stance

In the news today
Tory claim on NI job losses under fire
Research done by George Osborne’s main economic adviser has thrown into question the Conservatives’ claims that Labour rises in National Insurance contributions would destroy upwards of 57,000 jobs.

50 heads attack Conservative education plans
A group of 51 headteachers, including prominent academy leaders, today attacked the Tories’ plans to give parents the freedom to set up schools and said they feared “across-the-board cuts” to schooling under the Conservatives.

Lib Dems offer tax bait to voters
Mr Cable made the remark as he helped his party leader, Nick Clegg, launch the Lib Dem manifesto, a document that Mr Clegg said would help “hardwire fairness” into British society – and which has a £16.8 billion tax cut for low and modest earners at its centre.

JP Morgan smashes expectations with $3.3bn profit
As well as beating the $2.14bn profit recorded in the same period a year ago, today’s earnings also exceeded the $3.28bn profit racked up in the last three months of 2009.

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