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Tonight the three men vying to be chancellor after the general election - Alistair Darling, George Osborne and Vince Cable - go head to head in a live TV debate on Channel 4.

It is not the first time chancellor and would-be chancellors have slugged it out on TV, but the financial crisis has thrown a super trouper of a spotlight onto all things economic.

The debate is being watched closely, not least by our Political Editor Michael Crick, who will be assessing how the trio perform.

We will also be looking at Tory plans to block some of next year's planned National Insurance tax rises.

Mr Osborne has dubbed Labour's tax rise "the economics of the madhouse", claiming that seven out of 10 workers would be better off if the Tories won the election.

But the government has hit back with Gordon Brown calling the Tory plan a "panic measure" ahead of the election.

Who are we to believe? We'll ask politicians from the three main parties.

We've also got a report from outside the Westminster bubble. Our Economics Editor Paul Mason has travelled from the south-east of England to the tip of west Wales asking what is wrong with Britain, and how we can fix it.

And, as Home Secretary Alan Johnson takes steps to ban the "legal high" mephedrone and other synthetic drugs within weeks, Susan Watts reports on the tension between a government having to listen to media and public outcry, and the scientists calling for a proper establishment of the facts.

We hope to be talking to Dr Polly Taylor - who resigned from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs saying pressure is being put on scientists and academic freedom is being compromised to please politicians or the press.

Join Jeremy at 10:30pm.