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Cameron warns over vote for Clegg | Cameron warns over vote for Clegg |
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David Cameron is warning a vote for Nick Clegg could see Britain being "stuck" with Labour - after a Lib Dem surge in opinion polls. | |
He will say people are "desperate" for change but only a "decisive" Tory win will stop Gordon Brown "limping on". | |
Mr Clegg said it was a "tired old claim" that a vote for the Lib Dems was a vote for another party. | |
For Labour Lord Mandelson warned a hung parliament might give "disproportionate power" to the Lib Dems. | |
Meanwhile Gordon Brown has recalled cabinet ministers from the campaign to deal with the air crisis holding a Cobra emergency planning meeting. | |
The latest YouGov poll for the Sun, carried out on Saturday and Sunday, suggests the Lib Dems are 1% ahead of the Tories on 33% with Labour in third place on 26% - which if repeated on 6 May would result in a hung Parliament. | |
Hung parliament | Hung parliament |
It suggests the bounce Mr Clegg received after his widely-praised performance in Thursday's inaugural televised prime ministerial debate, is enduring. | |
But BBC polling expert David Cowling says the margin of error makes it unclear whether the Lib Dems or Conservatives are in front "but there is no doubt that Labour is third". | |
If there is no clear election winner, Mr Clegg has said he would work with the party which has the biggest "mandate" - although he has not made it clear whether that means the highest number of votes or seats, which could be different. | If there is no clear election winner, Mr Clegg has said he would work with the party which has the biggest "mandate" - although he has not made it clear whether that means the highest number of votes or seats, which could be different. |
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Conservative leader Mr Cameron told the Guardian that anything other than a Conservative vote on 6 May risked leaving people "stuck with what you have got". | |
In a speech in London, he will say the TV debate has "really shaken things up": "I think what it shows is that our politics has hit such a low, that people are so desperate for something to change, that they are running towards anything that's different." | |
But with predictions of a hung parliament, he will say only an outright Conservative victory will guarantee Labour do not get back in. | |
"The big question - the only question - when you enter the ballot box on May 6 is who can get the job done. Gordon Brown limping on can't do it. He's had 13 years and look at the mess he made. | |
"The only way to get change, the only way to get the job done, the only way to get leadership and make sure we don't carry on with Gordon Brown is a decisive Conservative victory." | |
'Tired old claim' | |
At a press conference in Cardiff on Monday morning, Mr Clegg said both Labour and the Conservatives were obviously going to "lash out" and claim a vote for the Lib Dems was a vote for another party. | |
But he said it appeared an "increasing number of people... seem to be open to the idea, in growing numbers, of doing something very different". | |
"To short-circuit that process and then repeat this tired old claim that a vote for the Liberal Democrats is a vote for another party, misses, in my view, the blindingly obvious which says that a vote for the Liberal Democrats is exactly what is says on the tin - it is a vote for the Liberal Democrats. | |
My bet is that most people will not follow through on their current flirtation with Nick Lord Mandelson | My bet is that most people will not follow through on their current flirtation with Nick Lord Mandelson |
"It is a vote for our policy on fairer taxes, on schools, on a new approach to the economy on cleaning up politics, nothing more, nothing less." | |
Introducing his party's plans for a "green jobs stimulus package" paid for by £3.1bn in cuts elsewhere, he said the general election campaign was "starting to come to life". | |
On Sunday Gordon Brown said Lib Dem economic policies must be "exposed" and Business Secretary Lord Mandelson predicted: "My bet is that most people will not follow through on their current flirtation with Nick." | |
He warned: "A hung parliament may seem attractive to some but it may give disproportionate power to a small party holding the balance of power and bring its own danger. Important legislation, for example on fighting terrorism which the Lib Dems are likely to oppose, would be difficult to get through." | |