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’Cleggmania’ in UK; Brown gets opinion poll lift

London: Thursday is the election day in Great Britain. The Liberal Democratic Party Leader Nick Clegg is enjoying an unprecedented personal support for a 3rd Party Leader and barring an eleventh hour surprise, should be the key to save a hung parliament. The general mood in Britain is one of ‘Cleggmania’ after his good showing at the public debate with Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the Labour Party and David Cameron of the Conservative Party. British PM Gordon Brown’s Labour party gained an opinion poll boost on the final day of campaigning ahead of Thursday’s election, but three national newspapers came out in support of opposition parties. A YouGov poll for the Sun newspaper suggested the centre-right Conservatives’ momentum had stalled, putting them unchanged on 35 per cent, while centre-left Labour rose to 30 per cent. The Liberal Democrats, who had been enjoying a strong rise in support on the back of a higher profile for their telegenic leader Nick Clegg, fell four points to 24 percent. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who has pulled in former Prime Minister Tony Blair to campaign for the Labour, made a fervent plea to former Labour voters to return to the fold of the party and vote tactically to stop the Conservatives from coming into power. Meanwhile, David Cameron, whose party leads with 33% of the public opinion insisted that he was not taking anything for granted though he felt confident of an unstoppable momentum for the Conservatives. The Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats are almost neck to neck in the public opinion, in 2nd & 3rd places, and the expectation of Gordon Brown is to stop the Conservatives from taking par by finally aligning with the Liberal Democratic Party. Nick Clegg has said that the Conservative Leader was arrogantly sure of making it to No. 10 Downing Street even before Britain had voted. Elections are a quiet affair in Britain and there is none of the Jathas, wall writings, slogans and the other colourful electioneering experience that we have in our country. The style of the British Leaders is to make maximum personal contacts by visiting large number of persons individually. The Conservative Leader campaigned yesterday across Great Britain in an all night effort, along with his wife Samantha to woo voters to vote for the Conservatives. Gordon Brown has equally been travelling along the length and breadth of the country to bolster support for his Labour Party. Meanwhile, Nick Clegg’s popularity continues to be substantial. Election counting will be done Friday.

                                                                                                               
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