Election 2010 daily guide: Wednesday 5 May

Published on Wednesday 5 May 2010 11:35

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

Learn from your mistakes: Gordon Brown has a radio microphone removed during a visit to Sheffield Forge Masters last night.

CAMPAIGN DAYS REMAINING: 1

Scottish schedule . . .

Prime Minister Gordon Brown will be in Scotland later today making a last ditch attempt to persuade undecided voters to back Labour. Labour are set to deliver half a million leaflets to homes across Scotland encouraging people to vote for them. It comes after Mr Brown yesterday pledged to "take full responsibility" if Labour fails to hold power tomorrow.

And Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy will also hit the campaign trail in East Renfrewshire, alongside International Development Secretary and local candidate Douglas Alexander.

First Minister Alex Salmond will be joined by fellow nationalists at the party's headquarters in Edinburgh this morning, after having embarked on a whistle-stop tour of the country in recent days.

In the next 24 hours the SNP campaign team will make 100,000 telephone calls to supporters in key seats and deliver the last of a quarter of a million letters to target voters.

The Conservatives will focus on their target seat of Dumfries and Galloway this morning. Shadow Scottish secretary David Mundell will hit the campaign trail with Tory candidate Peter Duncan in Dumfries High Street. The Tories are looking to overturn a Labour majority of less than 3,000 to take the seat.

Liberal Democrat leader Tavish Scott will be in Edinburgh to tell voters that only his party can fix the "broken system" of Government at Westminster. He will join local candidate Kevin Lang in the Edinburgh North and Leith constituency, before going onto Edinburgh South with candidate Fred Mackintosh. Both are marginal seats which the party is looking to seize from Labour.

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