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Labour and SNP 'close to post-election deal'

Ed Miliband and Nicola Sturgeon are "at the altar, and preparing to sign the register" on a post-election deal, according to Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson.

Sturgeon made the Labour leader an offer to join forces to help him become Prime Minister during the TV debates.

But David Cameron has warned there would be more borrowing and higher taxes if Miliband goes ahead with the deal.

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Nick Clegg: I went to pub instead of watching debate

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has his photo taken with a supporter during a General Election campaign visit to the Thainstone Centre in Inverurie, Scotland. Credit: PA

Nick Clegg says he did not watch last night's TV debate, preferring to go to the pub in his Sheffield Hallam constituency instead.

Speaking during a visit to the Gordon seat in Aberdeenshire, the Liberal Democrat said:

I would have liked to have been there.

David Cameron did not want to participate but, just because he did not want to speak up for what we have done in the last five years, I would have liked to have had the opportunity to have done so.

What was lacking in that debate was a sensible, centre-ground voice spelling out some of the realities of what we face as a country and setting out a hopeful vision of how we finish the job of balancing the books and finish it fairly. Instead, we had this rather lopsided debate.

– Nick Clegg

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