UK Will Go to Polls May 6

PM Gordon Brown's Labour majority under siege
By Will McCahill,  Newser Staff
Posted Apr 5, 2010 8:34 PM CDT

Setting out his economic plans weeks before an election, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown sees risks to economic recovery and says it is not the moment to change course.
(Reuters Business)

With his Labour Party’s majority under siege, British PM Gordon Brown will call a general election for May 6. Brown must ask Queen Elizabeth to dissolve Parliament, after which he’ll give a speech that paints the vote as “the big choice,” sources tell the BBC, which notes that “t he economy, taxation and public services will be key battlegrounds.”
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