Election 2010: Campaigning in pictures

Liberal Democrats (in date order): Nick Clegg at Dynamic Earth, in Edinburgh
Photograph: Murdo MacLeod

Vince Cable at Waterloo station, in London, before boarding a train to Hampshire
Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Clegg speaks to Cable on a train to Hampshire
Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Clegg speaks to supporters and the media outside Southampton General Hospital
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Clegg at Southampton General Hospital
Photograph: Getty Images

Clegg gestures during a Q&A session with students at Oxford Brookes University
Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP

A Liberal Democrat supporter goes to see candidate Parmjit Gill campaigning in Leicester
Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian

Clegg talks to journalists onboard his campaign bus
Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Clegg listens to the audio of recorded comments by Gordon Brown calling Gillian Duffy a 'bigoted woman'
Photograph: Andrew Winning/Reuters

Mannequins of Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg and David Cameron seen with a noose hung in front of them during a publicity stunt at the London Dungeon
Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Nick Clegg answers questions from students as he visits South Birmingham College in Birmingham
Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg is presented with a garland, after talking to students at De Montfort University in Leicester
Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg makes a speech to media and supporters in Sheffield
Photograph: Dan Chung

Nick Clegg is accompanied by his wife, Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, as he talks to supporters at Clarks Outlet Shopping Centre in Wells
Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Nick Clegg delivers a speech to supporters in a park in Colne Valley, Yorkshire
Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

Nick Clegg is photographed on a mobile phone as he speaks to the congregation of a community church in Burnley
Photograph: Cathal Mcnaughton/Reuters

Labour (in date order): The home secretary, Alan Johnson, and the Olympics minister, Tessa Jowell, meet voters in Brixton, south London
Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Brown, his wife, Sarah, and Jim Murphy (right) meet members of the public in Glasgow
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Brown has tea on Weymouth quay, in Dorset
Photograph: Geoff Moore/Rex Features

Police officers monitor Gordon Brown on CCTV as he approaches the Oldham event control room
Photograph: Richard Pohle/The Times/PA

Gordon Brown speaks to Gillian Duffy in Rochdale. He was caught on microphone describing her as a 'bigoted woman'
Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA

Brown appears on Jeremy Vine's BBC Radio 2 show and is played the recorded conversation in which he calls Gillian Duffy 'a bigoted woman'
Photograph: David Fisher/Rex Features

Gordon Brown leaves the Rochdale home of Gillian Duffy after apologising to the 65-year-old
Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA

Meanwhile... Labour MP Harriet Harman builds sand castles at the Woodside Children's Centre in Dudley
Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

John Prescott chats to shoppers as he campaigns in Dudley
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Labour party supporters wearing T-shirts during the launch of a new campaign poster in Birmingham
Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images

Gordon and Sarah Brown visit the Thompson friction welding factory in Halesowen
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

The business secretary, Lord Mandelson, is driven in an electric car during a visit to the University of Birmingham
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Students from University of Birmingham watch the leaders' televised election debate in the rain on a big screen set up by the BBC in a rugby field
Photograph: Dan Chung

Police gather at the scene of a car crash at a bus shelter next to where Gordon Brown and his cabinet were launching a poster campaign in Birmingham
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman, at a party poster launch in Birmingham
Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Gordon Brown and Tessa Jowell campaign on the streets of South London
Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images

Gordon Brown speaks to a Sunday congregation at the Church of the New Testament in Streatham
Photograph: Reuters

Gordon Brown with his wife Sarah leave the Church of the New Testament in Streatham
Photograph: Lewis Whyld/PA

Conservatives (in date order): A worker puts up a Conservative election poster showing the Tory leader, David Cameron, in Manchester
Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

Cameron adjusts his jacket after leaving his Jaguar to board his election battlebus for a visit to Romsey
Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images

Cameron is confronted by a father in London
Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

George Osborne puts on his jacket as he arrives at the workshop of Squires Gear & Engineering in Coventry
Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Cameron at Bury market, Greater Manchester
Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Cameron plays table tennis in the Bolton Lads & Girls club, Lancashire
Photograph: Reuters

Cameron talks to staff at a Coca Cola plant during a visit to Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

The shadow chancellor, George Osborne, stands behind the actor and playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah, who was hosting the 'Black Britain Decides' event at the Methodist Central Hall in London
Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters

David Cameron and his wife, Samantha, arrive at Euston train station
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Cameron is given a teddy bear on his visit to the Children's hospital in Birmingham
Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Getty Images

Chris Philp (left), the Conservative party candidate for Hampstead, Boris Johnson (centre), the Mayor of London, and Damian Green, the Conservative's shadow immigration minister, try some David Cameron cup cakes in Camden
Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images

The Conservative Party leader, David Cameron, meets pupils at Western Springs Community Primary School in Rugeley, Staffordshire
Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

The Conservative Party leader, David Cameron, speaks about 'a contract with the voters' at the Landau Forte college in Derby
Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Getty Images

David Cameron talks to the shadow health minister, Andrew Lansley, as they head to Dagenham in the Tory campaign bus
Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/AFP/Getty Images

David Cameron meets the two day-old twins Tabitha and Bo London at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage
Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

David Cameron and his wife Samantha in Newquay
Photograph: Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images