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By Al Jazeera Staff in Europe on May 5th, 2010
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Britain has held what appears to be the tightest election race in a generation.

The Conservative party took the lead but failed to gain a clear parliamentary majority, leaving the UK with a hung parliament. Eyes are now on the Liberal Democrats, as the two main parties attempt to woo them into forming an alliance.

You can follow the the latest news from Al Jazeera's UK election team right here.  

1636 GMT It's not just Nick Clegg that David Cameron is going to have to convince of the merits of a coalition. As this story from the Financial Times shows, he faces a battle persuading his own party.

By Alan Fisher in Europe on April 6th, 2010
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Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, has announced the date of the country's general election as May 6.

Opinion polls suggest Brown's ruling Labour Party is trailing the opposition Conservative Party.

Follow the story as it develops here. 

By Alan Fisher in Europe on February 21st, 2010
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Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, might be about to surprise us all. 
 
For months most people have thought that he'll cling on to power until the last possible moment and only go to the country when he has to. So that points firmly towards early May being the polling date.
 
So why might he go earlier? Let's outline the case.
 
Firstly the big interview he did last week. 
 
Here the father who famously dismissed using his children to help him politically by annoucing "they're people not props" told us about the loss of his baby daughter, his son's ongoing illness and how he rather clumsily proposed to his wife.
 

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