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How will the election cards fall? – 8 in the morning, April 20th

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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

* The Tories have nominated two of the people who wrote the letter in support of their National Insurance proposals, and who donated to the party, for peerages.

* The cards are thrown up in the air – but Gordon Brown holds the ace with his support for electoral reform, writes Steve Richards.

* Details of plans for House of Lords reports have been leaked to the Guardian, including elections for peers on the same day as the general election.

* Gordon Brown has refused to rule out a Lib-Lab pact after the election.

* There has never been an election like this, not in my lifetime, says Mike Smithson, as betting on the Liberal Democrats rockets.

* The Mirror says David Cameron is panicking “like loser Major” after dropping the Tories’ Party Election Broadcast last night.

* Gordon Brown is set to try to change the focus of the election campaign with a new focus on economic substance.

* Could Nick Clegg really be the British Obama?

Alex is the founder and CEO of The Cares Family. He was editor and first director of LabourList in 2009-2010, during which time he established the site as the number one Labour blog, and later an aide to Ed Miliband.

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