The final Sunday: five to go

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With five days of campaigning and get-out-the-vote to go until polls close on election day, LabourList picks five reads from across the media and blogosphere.

* Gordon Brown launches attack on “TV gameshow host” Nick Clegg, suggesting Liberal Democrat policies were devised on an evening out with friends “and writing them on the back of an envelope.”

* Born to rule? Sunder Katwala highlights an ill-judged headline from the Sunday Telegraph

* A YouGov poll for the Sunday Times shows that, while Clegg is the most popular of the three party leaders, there is markedly less enthusiasm for his policies.

* Writing in the Independent, Peter Mandelson claims that “we should not kid ourselves that we are out of the woods yet” on economic recovery.

* Labour councillor Bob Piper questions the influence of newspaper endorsements on voter behaviour.

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