Also: General election could take fourth scalp as SDLP leader faces calls to quit; Scottish Greens plan surge; and Welsh call for EU poll to avoid Assembly election.
Also: Northern Irish Labour denounce bar on contesting elections; SNP suspend members who harassed Murphy; Robinson calls for pan-UK unionist fightback.
The need to fight separately in the campaign has not hardened Tory hearts against a second coalition with Nick Clegg’s party.
Also: Calls for referendum as NI Assembly votes down gay marriage by two votes; and Jones and Davidson join the debate on EVEL.
Nigel Dodds’ latter-day conversion to the legitimacy of the SNP coincides with a threat to the influence of DUP MPs.
The Union’s election postcard reads like a Labour/SNP press release. And we have an appearance from Sam West (Alleyn’s, Lady Margaret Hall Oxford, Socialist Alliance).
Also: Welsh Conservative leader disowns the national manifesto; and Villiers defends the party’s choice of candidates in Northern Ireland.
The former leader takes up the Lib Dems’ new ‘Blukip’ bogeyman of a Conservative/UKIP/DUP pact that would leave the country “immersed in cuts”.
Through the mass of parties, we can see the contours of two opposed and increasingly solid political blocs composed along traditional lines.
How could the Conservatives get by without a majority and outside a coalition? With equal parts of humility and clarity.
Also: the DUP rule out any formal parliamentary arrangement with the SNP; and the Tories grant the Welsh Assembly powers of redefinition.
Ed Miliband’s party is only the sixth least popular choice as a potential Conservative coalition partner. Read all about it.
On the day David Cameron visited Belfast, Bhogal tried to persuade people in Banbridge that it is possible to move beyond ancient quarrels.
Also: What the DUP would have said in the leaders’ debate; and Plaid Cymru try to build on Wood’s boosted profile.
The Prime Minister would do a service to his party and to the Union by doing so.