British leaders in last-ditch push for swing voters
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
LONDON, May 3 (AFP): Britain's party leaders pushed into the final days of campaigning Monday, targeting key marginal seats in the fight for what looks set to be the closest general election in decades on May 6.
With the country on a public holiday, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is struggling to retain power, campaigned in tight seats in eastern England while Conservative leader David Cameron, who is ahead in polls, was in the northwest.
Amid talk of a possible hung parliament, the knife-edge contest is increasingly focused on swing voters in a few dozen seats where the results are too close to call, and which could determine the outcome of the election.
Brown's Labour has accused Cameron of trying to "give the impression that he is home and dry" after he outlined plans for his first 100 days in power Sunday including an emergency budget and setting up an Afghanistan "war cabinet".
With the country on a public holiday, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is struggling to retain power, campaigned in tight seats in eastern England while Conservative leader David Cameron, who is ahead in polls, was in the northwest.
Amid talk of a possible hung parliament, the knife-edge contest is increasingly focused on swing voters in a few dozen seats where the results are too close to call, and which could determine the outcome of the election.
Brown's Labour has accused Cameron of trying to "give the impression that he is home and dry" after he outlined plans for his first 100 days in power Sunday including an emergency budget and setting up an Afghanistan "war cabinet".