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Hung parliament jostling – 8 in the morning, April 27th

8amBy Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

* Gordon Brown yesterday published a manifesto for the NHS, confirming legal guarantees for every woman to choose a home birth and to give terminally ill people a right to palliative care at home.

* Shares in Lloyds and RBS rose yesterday, giving the taxpayer a possible £9bn profit.

* The shine is coming off Nick Clegg – Labour still has everything to play for, argues Mary Riddell.

* “I will work with anyone. I will work with a man from the moon, I don’t care, with anyone who can deliver the greater fairness that I think people want”, says Nick Clegg.

* “Senior Labour figures” urge Gordon Brown to allow Labour candidates to call for tactical voting.

* A hung parliament doesn’t just change the nature of government – it changes almost everything about the workings of parliament, writes Martin Kettle.

* Party leaders are acting like World Cup panellists, says Steve Richards – and Cameron is a “conviction opportunist”.

* Labour PPC John Cowan has been suspended after posting offensive comments online.

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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