All you need to know about Day 17 of the UK's 2005 general election campaign, at-a-glance:
21 APRIL IN A SENTENCE
The Tories announce plans to raise the stamp duty threshold to £250,000, while the Lib Dems focus on education. Labour pledges to cut crime, and there remains much concern over postal voting.
CAMPAIGN CATCH-UP
The Conservatives unveil plans to scrap stamp duty on all properties bought for less than £250,000.
The main parties are seeking to bolster their law and order credentials after figures showed recorded crime down, but violent crime up in England and Wales.
The Liberal Democrats are highlighting plans to scrap university tuition fees and to lower student debt.
A Liberal Democrat councillor has been refused the go-ahead to bring a High Court challenge over postal voting arrangements for the general election.
The government must press on with moves to form a devolved government in Northern Ireland without Sinn Fein, the Democratic Unionists have said.
The Greens pledge to renationalise the railways and cut road traffic as part of a five-point plan to rebuild Britain's transport network.
There are 70 seats across the UK where black voters could decide the outcome of the election, campaigners claim.
A junior minister has apologised for suggesting that Labour was planning to scrap the council tax.
PICK OF THE ANALYSIS
For the second day running, Michael Howard has unveiled significant new policies in the key battleground area of taxation.
The Sun's decision to plump for Labour two weeks before polling day is significant.
PHOTO OF THE DAY
Dr Ian Paisley sees the funny side during during the launch of the Democratic Unionist Party manifesto
QUOTE OF THE DAY
There is nothing more nauseating in public life than to observe the sight of Labour MPs... trooping through the division lobbies, in clear breach of a promise given in a manifesto they were elected on in the last general election, to pull up the ladder of opportunity behind them
Charles Kennedy on the introduction of tuition fees and top-up fees.
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