By Anushka Asthana, Political Correspondent
David Cameron and Ed Miliband went head-to-head today, taking to the airwaves to fire out accusations in both directions as the 100-day countdown to the General Election began.
In a series of bitter clashes, the Prime Minister told Sky News that a "left-wing" Labour government would "wreck" economic progress.
Mr Miliband hit back with claims that the NHS was at its "most perilous moment", saying the Conservatives would leave the health service "unrecognisable".
Both party leaders focused heavily on these core issues as they set out their stalls for the 2015 election.
A highly political day also saw the Chancellor and his Labour counterpart confront each other as figures showed the economy grew by 2.6% last year - but with the rate slowing at the end of 2014.
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George Osborne said this showed the recovery was "on track", but shadow chancellor Ed Balls warned the slowdown was a big concern for working people whose wages had already fallen.
It came as a Sky News projection - based on up-to-date polling - had Labour as the biggest party in a hung Parliament.
But Sky's figures also suggested Mr Miliband's party could be badly hit in Scotland amid an astonishing surge for the SNP, who could rise from six to 53 seats.
Labour is fighting back in Scotland, but if the projection proved accurate then it would give the Scottish nationalists the balance of power on 8 May. The SNP welcomed the figures but said they were "taking absolutely nothing for granted".
The Tory and Labour attempts to shore up their positions ahead of the election saw senior figures speak out on issues from the economy and NHS to the leaders' debates.
:: ON THE ECONOMY:
The Prime Minister warned of an "unstable, left-wing Government that starts to borrow and and spend and wreck the economic progress that we have made". "Of course I worry about that," he told Sky News.
The Chancellor said today's figures showing the "recovery is on track" but warned the "international climate is getting worse". One hundred days until an election was not the time to "abandon that plan and return Britain to economic chaos".
But his Labour counterpart Ed Balls hit back warning that "Tory claims the economy is fixed will ring hollow with working people who are still not feeling the recovery" and whose "wages are down by £1,600 a year since 2010".
:: ON UNFUNDED PROMISES:
When asked about unfunded tax cuts by Sky News' Political Editor, Faisal Islam, David Cameron insisted that plans to increase the personal allowance further and raise the 40% threshold would be affordable.
He said: "If you run the economy competently and properly you can do those things. That's what we will do in the next Parliament."
Mr Miliband hit back at claims his party is making promises without the financial backing by insisting money would be raised through a mansion tax on expensive homes, a crackdown on tax avoidance and a levy on tobacco firms.
He said: "And we will use that money for a plan to train and hire more doctors, nursers, care-workers and midwives - so that they all have the one thing that patients most need: an NHS with time to care."
:: ON THE NHS:
This was Labour's drive of the day with speeches from Mr Miliband and shadow health secretary Andy Burnham. The Labour leader said: "I believe this truth more than any other - the NHS wasn't just the right principle for our grandparents' generation, it is the right principle for our grandchildren's generation too."
He promised that Labour would provide 20,000 more nurses and 8,000 more GPs with a new guarantee of appointments within 48 hours with family doctors.
Mr Cameron hit back on ITV by pointing to Wales where a Labour-led Assembly is in charge of health care. He said: "Where Labour are running the NHS, they cut the NHS and, as a result, waiting lists are longer, the problems at A&E are worse, they don't have the cancer drugs fund that we have in England.
"I think we need to look at Labour's record rather than rhetoric."
:: ON THE LEADERS' DEBATES:
On Sky News, the Prime Minister insisted he was willing to do them, but added in another stipulation. He said: "I thought at the last election they were excellent, the debates, but they took the life out of the election campaign. We know when the election is, so let's get on with the debates before the campaign begins."
But the Labour leader accused Mr Cameron of trying to dodge the debates. "The Prime Minister is wriggling and wriggling to try to get out of these debates ... Let's make these debates happen, let's have David Cameron actually sign up and say he is going to do these debate, not keep trying to avoid them."
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