Election 2010 daily guide: Monday 3 May

Published on Monday 3 May 2010 12:43

Our daily guide to all the news, analysis, polls and gaffes from the General Election campaign trail.

Election race: Tory leader David Cameron takes a morning run along the seafront in Blackpool. (PA)

CAMPAIGN DAYS REMAINING: 3

Scottish schedule . . .

The Scottish National Party depute leader Nicola Sturgeon will set off on a tour of seats in the west, with a visit to Paisley while Alex Salmond starts a whistlestop tour of other key seats. Mr Salmond will join Dundee East and West candidates, Stewart Hosie and Jim Barrie, to meet voters in City Square. The first day of Mr Salmond's tour will also see him take in Aberdeen, Ochil and Falkirk.

Scottish secretary Jim Murphy will unveil Labour's latest election poster in Edinburgh.

The Lib Dem's shadow chancellor Vince Cable will meet business leaders and students as well as take part in a Q&A in Aberdeen.

And Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie and Gary Mulvaney, the candidate for Argyll and Bute, will be unveiling the Tories latest "celebrity endorsement".

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Salmond rages against the BBC machine

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