Low-key campaigning resumes, as leaders attend Royal wedding
Campaigning was muted for a second day on Saturday, as party leaders attended the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla-Parker Bowles in Windsor.
Nevertheless, the campaign did continue, with other key figures out and about in the country.
Chancellor Gordon Brown was in Edinburgh at Alistair Darling’s formal adoption as candidate for Edinburgh South West, where he promised that the Government would make more funding available to MG-Rover.
He also indicated that the Government might undertake an inquiry into claims of profiteering by Rover bosses in the aftermath of the company’s previous collapse, when BMW pulled out of the West Midlands manufacturer.
Conservative health spokesman Andrew Lansley was in Sawston in Cambridgeshire to launch a new “Save our GPs” campaign for his party.
Liberal Democrat local government spokesman Ed Davey headed to Conservative leader Michael Howard’s constituency of Folkestone and Hythe to push the party’s anti-Council Tax message, while Simon Hughes was campaigning in Brent East – won in spectacular style by the Lib Dems in a 2003 by-election.
Conservative defence spokesman Nicholas Soames – a close friend of Prince Charles – was joined by SNP leader Alex Salmond in London, for a “Save the Regiments” rally in Trafalgar Square in the afternoon.
In Glasgow, the Scottish Green Party held their spring conference.
Party convenor Robin Harper MSP declared, ” In this campaign Greens will put the public interest and communities first, not big business interests; call for serious action on climate change as the biggest threat facing humanity; and for peaceful approaches to resolving conflict.”
