Gordon Brown looks set to fire the starting gun for the 2010 general election later today.
After months of anticipation, the Prime Minister is expected to visit the Queen and request the dissolution of Parliament for a May 6 election.
The month-long campaign promises to be the hardest fought for many years, with Labour and the Tories closer in the polls than at any general election since 1992.
Monday's Easter Bank Holiday - usually a relatively quiet day in the political calendar - was dominated by pre-election skirmishing between the party leaders.
After Mr Brown issued a podcast attacking the Tories' spending plans, shadow chancellor George Osborne unveiled a new Conservative poster accusing Labour of crushing the recovery. Chancellor Alistair Darling took to the airwaves to defend next year's increase in National Insurance contributions - a move the Tories have promised to largely scrap.
The Conservatives also released a Webcameron video on YouTube featuring Mr Cameron's pregnant wife, Samantha. And Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg, a potential kingmaker in a hung parliament, unveiled one of his party's election battlebuses in North London.
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