Electioneering has begun in England after the prime minister announced the UK will go the polls on 6 May.
Gordon Brown drove to Buckingham Palace earlier to ask the Queen for a dissolution of Parliament.
Party leaders will head to marginal seats across the country to begin campaigning in earnest ahead of the general election.
Labour are behind in the polls, but the Tories will need an unusually large swing to win an outright majority.
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