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Pushed for time, but want to keep up-to-date with how the campaign’s going? Here are today’s must-reads …

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  Liberal Democrat manifesto: Tough but fair (Guardian)

There’s a warm welcome for the party’s manifesto from the two progressive quality papers. Here’s the Grauniad:

Right now, the Liberal Democrats are in the midst of what may be the most important 48 hours of their entire election campaign. The manifesto launch suggests that the Lib Dems are well aware of the stakes. For their moment in the spotlight, they chose a focused, costed and serious political message. Unlike the design-led offerings of their opponents,

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During the election campaign Lib Dem Voice is each day highlighting six blog-posts from the Lib Dem Blogs Aggregator which we think are well worth reading.

Here’s our pick from 14th April …

• 2010 General Election Diary Day 9: Frit, frit, frit! (Nick Barlow)

Why BBC1 should ’empty chair’ David Cameron next Monday: “Occasionally, they could flash up the caption ‘You’re watching a Panorama special: Jeremy Paxman interviewing David Cameron. David Cameron has declined to appear. Next week, we’ll do the same with Gordon Brown if he doesn’t turn up.’”

• A preview of the first leaders’ debate

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Pushed for time, but want to keep up-to-date with how the campaign’s going? Here are today’s must-reads …

The Liberal Democrats have launched their General Election manifesto, pledging to build a fairer Britain if elected on May 6. The 109-page document promises fairer taxes, economic reform, a £2.5 billion pupil premium for the poorest children and sweeping constitutional change include a new electoral system.

LDV Co-Editor Mark Pack treated Lib Dem Voice readers to a sneak preview last night.

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  Tory lead narrows amid huge voter disenchantment, Times poll finds (The Times)

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My LDV Co-Editor Mark Pack has just posted up the party’s official response to today’s launch of the Tory manifesto. If that doesn’t sate you, then here’s Nick’s verdict courtesy the BBC …

Clegg: ‘You can’t trust the Tories’ – Nick Clegg has said the Conservatives cannot be trusted, after the Tory party launched its election manifesto ”to change Britain for the better”.

Pushed for time, but want to keep up-to-date with how the campaign’s going? Here are today’s must-reads …

Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, who works as an international lawyer and has barely been seen on the campaign trail, spoke out in a documentary about her husband.

“It is a bit frivolous, there is an element of frivolity obviously on knowing where your clothes come from,” she told ITV’s Tonight programme. “I wouldn’t look on it as whether it’s frivolous in relation to the women – I think (it) is frivolous in relation to the voters.

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During the election campaign Lib Dem Voice is each day highlighting six blog-posts from the Lib Dem Blogs Aggregator which we think are well worth reading.

Here’s our pick from 12th April …

• National Insurance: are the Tories this useless? (Mat Bowles)

Haven’t had your fill of the NIC debate yet? Mat takes a fair and balanced look: “Note that when Vince has attacked the Tories on this, he’s not argued with them too much over the NI stuff; he’s argued with them over how they’re going to pay for it; he’s right to say that the money they’re

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Pushed for time, but want to keep up-to-date with how the campaign’s going? Here are today’s must-reads …

• Lib Dems to accuse Labour of failing to deliver fair taxes (Guardian)

Tax is the issue of the day for the Lib Dems, with the party launching an attack on Labour for increasing taxes on the poor over the last 13 years:

According to party analysis of Treasury figures, the poorest 20% of people are losing more of their income in tax than they did in 1997, while the richest 20% are paying less. …

Clegg will say: “On the day Labour launches its manifesto,

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Pushed for time, but want to keep up-to-date with how the campaign’s going? Here are today’s must-reads ….

• The UK’s only hope is a Treasury of National Unity, say Lib Dems (Guardian)

Lib Dem deputy leader Vince Cable has called for a cross-party “Treasury of national unity” in an interview with the Graunad today – but it’s his onslaught on the business leaders who last week paraded in favour of the Tories’ unfunded NIC tax-cut that’s grabbed the headlines:

“It is a sideshow, a diversion from the central issues. I think we went into this election with general agreement that there

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During the election campaign Lib Dem Voice is each day highlighting six blog-posts from the Lib Dem Blogs Aggregator which we think are well worth reading.

Here’s our pick from 8th April …

• Stuart MacLennan: Why was a Labour candidate talking about “chavs”? (Jonathan Calder)

Protesting against the frankieboyleisation of society: “What is a Labour candidate – a Labour candidate – doing talking about “chavs”? Even in the post-Blair Labour Party, surely its candidates should have some vestigial sense of being on the side of the workers?”

• Vote tactically for usssssss (Alix Mortimer)

Not enamoured of Adonis: “Get away from

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