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4 days out – 8 in the morning, May 3rd

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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

* Alan Johnson is “geuninely optimistic about Labour’s chances of winning Thursday’s election, and about Britain’s “future of opportunity”.

* With a few days to go, Ed Balls says Labour has “the fight of our life on our hands”.

* Yesterday, Gordon Brown embarked on a tour of ten London constituencies.

* David Cameron is already measuring the curtains for Downing Street, but there’s a word of warning from Jackie Ashley.

* Uncertainty in the marginals means there are “huge dividends for all three party leaders now engaged in the most important virility contest of their lives”, writes Sam Coates in the Times.

* The Tories have been forced to withdraw this leaflet which claims Labour have been responsible for a “whole saga of atrocities” in the Muslim world.

* All three leaders will today appear at the “fourth debate”, at a Citizens UK event in London.

* Ed Balls has urged head teachers not to boycott SATS later this month.

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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