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It’s time: Brown calls election – 8 in the morning, April 6th

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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

* After a 9.15am cabinet meeting, Gordon Brown will today visit the Queen at Buckingham Palace and call the election for May 6th.

* As soon as the election is called, Gordon Brown will begin campaigning in Kent and the South East.

* The Times has some of the history of Prime Minsters visiting the Queen to ask for a dissolution of parliament.

* It’s the economy: The Independent outlines how Gordon Brown could be on his way back to Downing Street after the election.

* More details emerge about the forthcoming Labour Party manifesto, including votes at 16, “Democracy Day” referenda on the voting system and House of Lords reform.

* “You don’t know what you’re doing”: Gordon Brown goads the Tories on economic policy in an interview with the Mirror.

* Check out LabourList’s new polling analysis, which we’ll be publishing every day over the next month.

* The Tories were today accused of “sleight of hand” over their promise to fund new cancer drugs.

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Alex is the founder and CEO of The Cares Family. He was editor and first director of LabourList in 2009-2010, during which time he established the site as the number one Labour blog, and later an aide to Ed Miliband.

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