What's happening

Today David Cameron makes a speech about apprenticeships on a local election campaign visit in the north-west

Today George Osborne attends a G20 finance ministers' meeting in Washington DC

Today Lords energy spokesperson Lord Marland attends a union-sponsored conference on nuclear energy

Today Eric Pickles is 60 today

10.10 Home secretary Theresa May gives the keynote speech at a Stonewall conference on lesbian, gay and bisexual workplace equality

10.45 Ed Miliband visits Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, to campaign with Welsh Labour for the local elections

12.00 Campaign group Disabled People Against Cuts holds a rally at the department for work and pensions against the loss of Remploy jobs

16.00 Andrew Mitchell speaks at a DfID-sponsored event in Washington DC about 'resilience in human emergencies'

What's been said

All governments have a beginning, a muddle and an end and this one's in the muddle now, says Philip Collins in The Times (£)

It is crucial that Europe implements a 30% cut in carbon by 2020, write Nick Clegg and Ed Davey in The Guardian

Sarah Palin has something that the Republican campaign desperately needs - charisma, says Anne Applebaum in the Daily Telegraph

Heads must roll at the Home Office over the Qatada deportation debacle, says Mary Dejevsky in The Independent, but not Theresa May's