What the parties say today...

The Conservatives are calling today "demolition day" for Gordon Brown's tax and spend policies.

Gormless will find it increasingly difficult to wave the spectre of 'Tory cuts' or '10%' figures at the Conservatives after Bank of England boss Mervyn King criticised Labour's budget which has led to "a situation where the scale of deficits is truly extraordinary".

In a separate development, the OECD has issued a stark warning about the UK economy and their latest figures have been seized upon by both the Conservatives and LibDems to attack Labour's running of the economy.

The Green Party are attacking new Secretary of State for Health, Andy Burnham. Burnham recently resigned as Vice President of the British Fluoridation Society to avoid accusations of a conflict of interest. On the same day as he resigned, he told a conference that the country should speed up fluoridation plans. The Green Party state that Burnham "was instrumental in proposing the inclusion of compulsory water fluoridation in the Government's 2003 Water Act" and yet "Burnham's links with the Society were not included in his register of interests, despite strict Parliament regulations stating such interests must be declared". The Green Party is strongly opposed to water fluoridation which it says is "mass medication" of the population.

UKIP are getting all excited about the fact that a new Harris poll shows that 10% of people are planning to vote UKIP at the next General Election. The Harris poll makes fascinating reading (here in .pdf format) with the 'minor' parties polling some quite high numbers.

The SNP is trumpeting a claim that Scotland is leading the world in climate change efforts.

Plaid Cymru are flagging a higher education scheme in the Heads of the Valleys area.

The British National Party are accusing Trevor Phillips of the EHRC of hypocrisy after highlighting what they say was his call for companies to adopt "anti-white hiring policies" in 2007.

The LibDems have nothing new today.