So Michael Caine came out in support of Cameron's Tories (bringing headlines of 'I'm a Tory, not a lot of people know that.'), and specifically his plan to offer voluntary citizen service for all 16 year olds. An interesting proposal, a good idea indeed - but if voluntary will it work any better or reach any more kids than the Duke of Edinburgh? Yes, the government needs to act in this area, but I don't think this is firm enough. Make it compulsory.
Labour have continued with their courting of the Lib Dems. Lord Adonis (Labour Transport Secretary) has now come out calling for Liberal Democrat supporters to vote Labour in marginal seats in order to avoid a Conservative government. It makes some sense, the Lib Dems do have more in common with Labour than they do the Tories - but with Clegg's insistence that he will not be king maker (which, if we do have a hung parliament, he will. He won't be able to avoid it.) is it worth attempting to woo them this early on?
Also, Dragons' Den millionaire has done a uturn on Labour's NI tax. James Caan originally said the increase would cost thousands of jobs, but now says after looking at the figures closely he believes this to be the way forward. An interesting swing back in support of Labour's NI tax increase... I wonder how many more will come out in support now that one person has.
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