Fortunes differ in British election race focus 04/11/2010

Fortunes differ in British election race

focus 04/11/2010 LONDON — Britain’s Labour and Conservative parties are locked in a tight election race — but their funding war chests are far from equal, and the issue is causing headaches on both sides. Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Tory rival David Cameron hit the campaign trail this week, kicking off a month-long blitz of rallies, adverts and canvassing in one of the closest vote races in years, ahead of May 6 polls. In the last election in 2005, both parties spent almost 18 million pounds (27 million dollars, 20 million euros) each on national campaigning, close to the legally-imposed limit, as well as millions more at a local level. The Conservatives are in a good position to match this in next month’s vote, having received 32.5 million pounds in donations and public funding last year alone, compared to just 16.2 million pounds received by Labour.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100411com6.html

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