Mr Portillo was asked a lot about where his deputy Oliver Letwin, who talked to the FT about 20bn tax cuts last week, was. Labour's sent the chief secretary to the Treasury down to his Dorset constituency to look for him. Mr Letwin duly appeared later to give a press conference and appeared on Sky TV, but I'm afraid that didn't stop Labour issuing a new poster in which he appears as that famous TV and film character, The Fugitive. I know he's been seen on TV - but elections are always unfair, and both sides were doing their best to be unfair to each other this morning. Find out how any poll result would translate into parliamentary seats with our ICM poll converter .
Labour tries to shift attention to health.
The Bishop of Bradford says the election is distracting attention from a number of new foot and mouth cases in Yorkshire. It's cheaper than Viagra, apparently. Read it here . I saw Tony Blair this morning, not in real life of course, but on telly. He was surrounded by irate TV hacks outraged at the suggestion that they make their own stories.