Here are the latest despatches from our panel of candidates, giving their takes on how the third week of the campaign had gone. Reports from Hannah Foster, Lee Martin and Philippa Stroud will follow later...
John Lamont - Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
It has been another hectic week on the campaign. There is still no sign of any "Clegg bounce" in the Borders which must be odd if we are to believe the opinion polls. Indeed, many voters are expressing concerns about the possibility of a hung Parliament and the Lib Dems putting Labour back into power. A vote changer for many.
The Lib Dems continue to fight dirty - damaging posters and putting out untruths about Conservative policies. They must be worried!
On Monday, we hosted the launch of the Scottish Conservative manifesto in Melrose. I was delighted to welcome David Cameron via DVD (thanks to the ash cloud!), Annabel Goldie MSP and David Mundell, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland. There was a great crowd to welcome them and to see the manifesto launch. Again, there was a tremendous response on the street.
More of the same for the coming week with a special surprise on Tuesday (perhaps!)...
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Stuart Andrew - Pudsey
A very varied week this time starting off with a visit by Michael Gove. We met with media students at the Trinity University College in Horsforth where a number of searching and challenging questions were raised. The following day it was the turn of shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley who met local GPs and then helped out the Guiseley in Bloom volunteers as part the national Social Action day.
It has also been an interesting week with the media as the Pudsey constituency has been the focus of the BBC local Look North programme all week. It started with a "day in the life of a candidate", followed by speed dating with floating voters and a "Political Mastermind" - which I am pleased to report I won!
The real battle though is still wide open: our canvassing shows that there is a lot of support for us but that many have yet to make their minds up. The leadership debate was good for David Cameron with a number of people commenting on their approval of his performance, but it all highlights that the race in Pudsey is going to be very interesting indeed!
Louise Bagshawe - CorbyThe strangest week yet in the campaign: Starts with a guy in a fox suit, ends with an Elvis impersonator.
Monday - After a morning at the office dealing with correspondence, return home after lunch to prep for major public meeting in Irthlingborough. Meanwhile my young agent, Robert, is confronted by a guy in a giant fox suit and two activists from the League Against Cruel Sports. For those who follow me on Twitter, I put their resulting video online. It is the funniest thing this side of a Thick of It episode. Best is where they sit in the back of their car trying to contact Lib Dem candidate Portia Wilson and the phone rings and rings endlessly. (She's a Northampton councillor, doesn't live in the seat). Great public meeting that night in the town.
Tuesday - Social Action day across the country. We are picking up litter in Corby - there's a kids' playground and park right next to the Conservative club. In the children's play area I pick up everything from broken glass bottles to a discarded condom to crushed lager cans. Sad. Alan Duncan, Shadow Prisons Minister and our neighbour in Rutland and Melton, brings his team along to help. After that, delivering the last remaining routes in Thrapston. Nominations close in Corby and UKIP have not stood a candidate in the seat. Rumour has it he could not find the full deposit. Campaign team meets that evening. Everybody very upbeat and prepared to fight hard for the last fortnight. Special applause for activist George Whittacker and our poster team, who have 136 large posters up around the seat. Our fighting fund appeal has broken all local records.
Wednesday - Canvassing. All day. First Brigstock, then Oakley Vale. Find our first few LD/Tory waverers, remind them the LDs are 100/1 in this seat. When I meet a Labour voter at this point, I am almost suprised.
Thursday - More canvassing, this time Raunds with Opposition Whip Brooks Newmark. Tons of people out. Brooks and I jointly confronted by one man screaming in a garden, asking me how after expenses I dared to show my face. Pointed out that as not have been elected, have neer charged a penny. He then started denouncing my neighbouring MP Philip Hollobone. I defended Philip stoutly - he has the lowest expenses in all of Parliament, and until very recently didn't even hire a secretary. But this man was unconvinced. Shows how many members of the public tar all MPs with the same brush.
Friday - two public meetings in a row - Oakley Vale in Corby, then Hargrave on windfarms. The Oakley Vale meeting was "lively" - two Labour activists came along and tried to disrupt it. They failed. I quite enjoyed myself, I have to say. The meeting itself shouted the husband down when he kept trying to heckle, and local Oakley Vale activist Glenn Smith told me afterwards that floating voters present had decided to vote for me based on their behaviour. Hargrave was a public meeting organised by campaigners, to whom I pledged my support. Phil Hope MP sent a letter, as is his wont. The one stat that stood out for me was that we are in the lowest wind area in the UK - yet have ten separate applications for windfarms in the seat.
Saturday - The day was dominated by the appearance of Elvis at a rally for Phil Hope in Lodge Park school, which Gordon Brown attended. May I say that, contrary to rumour, I have not actually bribed anybody in the Labour campaign organising team to get me more votes? Watching it on TV, I almost felt sorry for Labour. But not quite.
