Brown 'upping the tempo' in UK general election fight

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President and Managing Director of Bank Asia Md Mehmood Husain, among others, posing for photograph with the recipients of the bank's higher studies scholarship-2011 at a function at Lohagara in Chittagong Saturday.

LONDON, Apr 24 (AFP): Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Saturday he was 'upping the tempo' with just under two weeks to go before the May 6 general election in which he is battling to avoid being kicked out of office.
Brown will engage more with ordinary members of the public, his Labour party said, after he was outshone by Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats in the first two of three pre-poll television debates.
"As you get nearer to election day you are always upping the tempo," Brown told reporters travelling with him to Corby, central England. "Of course we are upping the tempo. We are upping the tempo today and tomorrow."
Clegg's Liberal Democrats, for years the third party of British politics, have surged ahead in the polls following his strong performances in TV debates on the last two Thursdays.
But one out Saturday indicated that David Cameron's Conservatives were still in the lead overall.
The Daily Mail/Harris poll of 1,048 put the Tories on 34 per cent, the Liberal Democrats on 29 and Labour on 26.