It's time: Brown calls election - 8 in the morning, April 6th

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* More details emerge about the forthcoming Labour Party manifesto, including votes at 16, “Democracy Day” referenda on the voting system and House of Lords reform.

* “You don’t know what you’re doing”: Gordon Brown goads the Tories on economic policy in an interview with the Mirror.

* Check out LabourList’s new polling analysis, which we’ll be publishing every day over the next month.

* The Tories were today accused of “sleight of hand” over their promise to fund new cancer drugs.

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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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