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A Labour election candidate has been sacked after posting a string of highly offensive comments about voters, politicians and celebrities on his Twitter account.

It isn’t normal to hear a major retailer arguing for a rise in the rate of VAT, but that is precisely what Sir Stuart Rose, chairman of Marks & Spencer, did on the BBC radio “Today” programme on the first full day of the election

As more business leaders create a backlash over Government plans to raise National Insurance Gordon Brown, and the Labour party, has looked “very rattled” in the run up to the General Election, David Cameron has claimed

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.