Today's most viewed The parties – April 26 Labour
The Chancellor, Gordon Brown, drives home message about Labour's strength among the business community, demonstrated by a list of more than 150 endorsements in a newspaper advertisement. The Prime Minister is also in Scotland, visiting a community centre in Rutherglen. Tony Blair joins Jack McConnell there to claim the election is a straight choice between improving education or separations from UK.
SNP
The Nationalists' worst gaffe of the campaign so far sees Jim Mather tell the Financial Times that "raising income tax rates would be naive in a knowledge economy" - apparently forgetting that the SNP's chosen replacement for the council tax is a hike on income tax. He also describes giving Scotland a competitive edge as "sprinkling fiscal fairy dust".
LibDems
LibDem leader Nicol Stephen wants every child to receive an hour of physical activity each day, with 1000 more sports coaches and PE teachers to make it happen. He promises the largest single boost to grassroots sport in decades, with more than £100m of new investment in the next parliament.
Conservatives
Murdo Fraser spells out Tory pledge on grants for homes and small business to install schemes such as mini-turbines and solar panels. He claims ratings by environmental groups putting Conservatives bottom of the league table are fundamentally flawed because they fail to take into account complementary policies set at Westminster.
Others
Star turn is Respect's George Galloway doing four public rallies in Scotland in support of his "blood brother" Tommy Sheridan, as he castigates Labour in general and Jack McConnell in particul
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