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So what happens when over the next month until the nation goes to the polls on May 6th?

Speaking to workers at the Lib Dems’ Cowley Street campaign headquarters, Mr Clegg said the May 6 poll would be ”a huge, huge election” which would spell the beginning of the end for Gordon Brown.

It is understood that Lord Mandelson will be the party’s chief election strategist as well as chairing “the majority” of Labour’s news conferences following the announcement that Gordon Brown has called the General election for May 6th.

“The Big Society”, the Conservative Party told us in a paper published this week, “is our positive alternative to Labour’s failed big government approach”: it looks to tackle dependence on the state by empowering communities to address local issues and securing mass engagement in social action.

Your source for all the latest news, comment and analysis that might affect your business from Plaid Cymru and Westminster leader Elfyn Llwyd in this year’s general election.

Latest news about the Green Party, Green Party policies and the Green Party leader Caroline Lucas.

Your source for all the latest news, comment and analysis that might affect your business from the UK Independence Party and leader Lord Pearson in this year’s general election.

Gordon Brown has called the General Election for May 6 and launched his campaign by calling for a ‘mandate’ to restore the trust between voters and the politicians elected to represent them.

Your source for all the latest news, comment and analysis that might affect your business from the Labour Party and leader Gordon Brown in this year’s general election.

Royal Bank of Scotland has been fined £28.6m for breaching competition law after sharing confidential details about the pricing of its commercial loans with rival staff at Barclays.

There are reports in today’s edition of The Sun that, in the increasingly likely event of a hung parliament, the next series of The Apprentice may have to be postponed until 2011.

We have looked at all of the key points related to business in yesterday’s budget – the last one before the election- and spoken to leading commentators and business owners to get their opinion on what Darling’s Budget really means to business.

For anyone who missed the last Budget that Chancellor Alistair Darling delivered before the General Election, you can read the full transcript here.

As businesses round the country prepare themselves for the coming budget, research has found that small business decision makers are calling for a range of innovative tax breaks to help the unemployed back to work and give the UKs economy a much-needed boost.