WATCH: Farage resigns as leader of UKIP…

…but he will “consider whether to put my name forward to do that job again”.

Iain Dale: Credit to Crosby – we doubters have egg on our faces

Plus: Scotland is a problem of Labour’s own making. Dan Jarvis’s time has come. Prepare for a UKIP leadership bloodbath. And good riddance to Vince Cable!

WATCH: The party leaders cast their votes

Farage, Sturgeon, Miliband, Bennett and Cameron visit their local polling stations.

Lord Ashcroft: The Conservatives lead by two points in this week’s Ashcroft National Poll

Plus: This week’s focus groups in Pudsey, Hazel Grove, and Rossendale & Darwen; and how much do we really know about the party leaders?

UKIP’s limp campaign is a victim of mismanaged expectations

The inflated hopes engendered by their 2014 annus mirabilis look set to sour a perfectly respectable result for the People’s Army.

Worst case scenarios for each of the parties

Based on recent polls and allowing for a bit of slippage here and there, here’s the worst that could happen.

The Election Battleground 10) The South East

Our whistle-stop tour heads to the South East, where the Tories and Labour are fighting it out and two minor parties have everything at stake.

Lord Ashcroft: The Conservatives lead by four points in this week’s Ashcroft National Poll

Plus: this week’s focus groups in Plymouth Moor View and St Austell & Newquay; responses to the manifestos; and what are the leaders’ favourite TV programmes?

It would be wrong to have talks with Clegg, but not to have talks with Carswell

Gove’s declaration that the Conservatives won’t have discussions with UKIP if the Commons is hung is tactically understandable but strategically wrong.

The death of the two-party system is much exaggerated

Through the mass of parties, we can see the contours of two opposed and increasingly solid political blocs composed along traditional lines.

WATCH: Opposition leaders’ debate 3) – See it in full

The five of them go head-to-head.

WATCH: Opposition leaders’ debate 1) Farage attacks the BBC’s opposition debate audience

“This audience, which is a remarkable audience even by the left-wing standards of the BBC.”

Two intriguing signs Farage wants to keep his options open in a hung parliament

On the future of Cameron and the date of a referendum there have been subtle but important shifts.

Henry Hill: The rise of the Scottish ‘Nasty Party’?

Also: the DUP rule out any formal parliamentary arrangement with the SNP; and the Tories grant the Welsh Assembly powers of redefinition.

Lord Ashcroft: Labour and the Conservatives are tied in this week’s Ashcroft National Poll

Plus: This week’s focus group in Wirral West on McVey, Sturgeon and Trident; and what would the party leaders be like as dinner guests?