Our @AliStoddart1 is live tweeting here and @niamhwebster & @Kelly_McB are tweeting from @demsoc on the #BBCDebate tonight
Nicola Sturgeon says the 'SNP will work with people of like mind' after the election #BBCdebate- Green message from Natalie Bennett to 'challenge the establishment' #BBCDebate
- Leanne Wood unsupportive of continued austerity #BBCDebate #plaid
- Leanne Wood: "Plaid Cymru does want to reduce the deficit but not at any cost and not to artificial deadlines" #BBCDebate
- Audience seem to disapprove of David Cameron's decision not to take part in the debate with loud applause at every mention #BBCDebate
- Nicola Sturgeon: "If we continue with austerity there's going to be 1 million more children across the UK living in poverty" #BBCDebate
- First direct question from Leanne Wood asking Ed Milliband if he would reverse Tory spending cuts if he was in power #BBCDebate
- Surprised CON MPs are on Twitter attacking #bbcdebate participants. Surely only draws attention to absence of CON rebuttal on TV? ^az
- Ed Miliband saying the SNP's plan for fiscal autonomy is based on their "principled desire" to drive for independence #BBCDebate
- Nicola Sturgeon is challenging Ed Miliband to answer where the axe for cuts is going to fall, when and by how much #BBCDebate
- Natalie Bennett to Ed Miliband: "We need to rebalance this society, you're just holding things at the same level" #BBCDebate
- Debate now moving on to housing issues #BBCDebate
- Miliband says Labour plan to build 200,000 homes a year by 2020, prioritise capital investment & to stand up to large developers #BBCDebate
- Wood says Plaid Cymru want to pause plans for right to buy, have rent caps, & for council's to reinvest profits from new housing #BBCDebate
- Bennett says private landlords received £9.3bn from housing benefit last year. Greens want 500,000 new homes with social rent #BBCDebate
- Audience seem to like @natalieben call to make big companies contribute a fair share. #BBCDebate - Next issue is devolved issue of housing
- Sturgeon: "Housing is one of the biggest issues in this election campaign" #BBCDebate
- Sturgeon says that Tories plans to extend right to buy is one of the worst ideas she's ever heard #BBCDebate
- Sturgeon says that Tories plans to extend right to buy is one of the worst ideas she's ever heard #BBCDebate
- Nigel Farage would make all new social housing available to UK Nationals only #BBCDebate
- .@Nigel_Farage focus on public spending and criticism of money being "thrown around like confetti" #BBCDebate
- Wood: "We need to protect the numbers of housing available for social rent", agrees with Sturgeon that right to buy is a bad idea #BBCDebate
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