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Compare and contrast the coverage of today's midday election meetings, courtesy of Sarah and friends at the BBC Live Election blog:
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CONSERVATIVES
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1307: This from the BBC's Chris Buckler - Ed Balls' name gets booed when shadow education secretary Michael Gove mentions him at a school rally in Gormersal in West Yorkshire. The parents blame the education secretary for blocking their plans to set up a new school in the area. DESCRIPTIVE
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1257: Mr Cameron tells people who are campaigning for their own school that they are "an inspiration" for what they're doing and his party would help people like them realise their dream. He says they demonstrate his belief of bigger society. SIGNIFICANT
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1243: David Cameron, also dressing down for a Sunday but wearing a tie-less navy shirt to Mr Brown's white, has arrived in Gomersal, West Yorkshire, where he will make a speech on education. He's surrounded by people wearing green. DESCRIPTIVE
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LABOUR
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1230: He focuses his attack on the Tories, claiming they would allow nurseries schools to charge top-up fees, cut child tax credits for the middle classes and remove child trust funds from people earning £16,000 or more. He says Mr Cameron is planning on doing that while cutting inheritance taxes for the richest. SIGNIFICANT
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1226: Mr Brown says his party would give fairness to young people by creating 1m new skilled jobs, to the world by protecting the environment with bold promises on climate change, and in democracy with a referendum on changes to the political system. SIGNIFICANT
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1219: Gordon Brown, minus a tie (it's Sunday after all), is addressing an event in Harrow. He's talking about how his party's policies are rooted in the politician's favourite buzzword, "fairness". SIGNIFICANT
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Labour is allowed to get its key messages across. I see from ConservativeHome that the Conservative message on education today was a detailed and substantial one. Shame it wasn't reported:
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/thetorydiary/2010/04/david-cameron-and-michael-gove-give-conservative-education-policy-a-big-push.html