News in Picture

We've waited a very long time to find out about Lord Ashcroft's tax affairs.

Now, just weeks away from the election, it turns out that the man who is one of the biggest ever donors to the Conservative party, who was controversially awarded a peerage, and who is at the heart of the Tories' election campaign, does not pay UK tax on earnings outside Britain after all. 

He refused to reveal his tax status for years, but now he has stated that he is a "non-dom" - resident in the UK but not "domiciled" in the UK for tax purposes. 

Lord Ashcroft has sat in the House of Lords since 2000 but has paid no tax in the UK on his overseas earnings, and he is a deputy chairman of the Conservative party.

Is it right that the Tories' election campaign should be funded by this kind of money? We'll be speaking to Shadow Cabinet member Theresa May, not least to ask her why Lord Ashcroft did not reveal this information of his own volition a decade ago.
 
All this as the opinion polls suggest the Conservatives' lead is narrowing.

Two more polls will be published tonight - we'll have the details and we'll be asking Newsnight's three wise politicos (Olly Grender, Danny Finkelstein and Peter Hyman) what appears to be going wrong with the Conservatives' campaign strategy.
 
Also tonight - are some people with mental health issues dangerous? And is it politically incorrect to talk about links between violence and mental health problems.

Why Did You Kill My Dad? is a documentary that will be shown on BBC Two this evening. It was made by a filmmaker, Julian Hendy, whose father was murdered by a psychotic man with a long history of mental health problems.

Julian Hendy spent three years researching such homicides, and he'll be live on Newsnight tonight in discussion with the Chief Executive of a mental health charity and a representative of mental health trusts.
 
And Peter Marshall reports on the Virginia jihadis - five young Americans due in court in Pakistan tomorrow where they could face terrorism charges and a lifetime in prison. 
     
Join me at 10.30pm on BBC Two.

Kirsty