Ed Miliband and Ed Balls will today launch a whistlestop tour of local election battlegrounds ahead of Thursday’s elections in which he will underline the key themes of Labour’s campaign.

At a Q & A event in Coin Street, London, Mr Miliband will set out some of Labour’s priorities for next week’s Queen’s Speech, measures that would help families immediately by tackling rip-off prices and creating real jobs for young people.  

On BBC Sunday Politics Harriet Harman said:

 “It’s already evident that Jeremy Hunt has breached the Ministerial Code. The Ministerial Code says that a secretary of state mustn’t mislead Parliament. He has. He said on March 3 that he had published all the exchanges between his department, the Department of Culture, and News Corp. 

Chris Bryant MP, Labour's Shadow Immigration Minister, commenting on the chronic queues at Heathrow, said today:

"The Government has made a fundamental error in cutting staff and not ensuring our border force have the resources they need to do their job at a time when we're about to see the biggest security challenge this country's seen for decades.

"Labour has been warning about this for months. 

Mary Creagh MP, Labour’s Shadow Environment Secretary, responding to new figures from The Trussell Trust showing that demand at food banks doubled last year, said:  

"The Tory-led Government are out of touch with families and pensioners feeling the squeeze from higher food bills and struggling to make ends meet. It is an utter disgrace that even though we are the seventh richest country in the world we face an epidemic of hidden hunger, particularly in children. 

Sadiq Khan MP, Labour’s Shadow Justice Secretary, commenting on the looming Royal Assent for the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, said:

“Today the Legal Aid, Sentencing & Punishment of Offenders Bill will receive its Royal Assent. During its progress, the Government were defeated a record 14 times on their unfair and tawdry Bill.

Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, in response to today’s economic growth figures, said:

“David Cameron and George Osborne complacently boasted their austerity plan had taken our economy out of the danger zone, but their failed policies have plunged us back into recession. 

Harriet Harman MP, Labour’s Deputy Leader and Shadow Culture Media and Sport Secretary, has written to David Cameron to demand that three apparent breaches of the Ministerial Code by Jeremy Hunt should be referred to the Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests as a matter of urgency. The full text of the letter can be found below: 

Dear Mr Cameron,

I am writing to you in respect of three apparent breaches of the Ministerial Code by Jeremy Hunt, the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, in his handling of News Corporation’s bid for BSkyB. 

Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Labour Party, said:
 
"Jeremy Hunt should have been standing up for the interests of the British people. In fact, it now turns out he was standing up for the interests of the Murdochs.

"He should resign.  

Jack Dromey MP, Labour’s Shadow Housing Minister, responding to the letter from Newham council asking a housing association in Stoke-on-Trent to accommodate up to 500 families on housing benefit, said: 

"Britain is facing a growing housing crisis.  

"Soaring rents and collapsing affordable house building are making families homeless and forcing them to move hundreds of miles from home. Eric Pickles own private secretary warned privately that proposals would force families out of London. They tried to deny this but now we know the truth.  

Labour's Shadow Home Office Minister, Diana Johnson MP, has attacked the Home Secretary’s delay on banning dangerous ‘legal highs’.

The Government will tomorrow (23 April) finally bring in a Statutory Instrument to ban the popular ‘legal-highs’ Ivory Wave and Bonsai, despite being warned about the dangers of Ivory Wave in August 2010 and promising swift action the following month.