General election 2010: week two of the campaign

David Cameron and Gary Barlow of Take That during a visit to Brine Leas high school in Nantwich
Photograph: Johnny Green/PA

Gordon Brown and wife Sarah Brown arrive at Brighton station
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Nick Clegg, David Cameron and Gordon Brown during the leaders' election debate
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Esther Rantzen looks at the road ahead in her car, as she campaigns as an independent candidate for Luton South
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Peter Mandelson dances with ex-spiritual healer Hannah Mackenzie at the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool
Photograph: Graeme Robertson

Historian Tristram Hunt, parliamentary candidate for Labour, poses as he canvasses in Stoke on Trent – where he has faced criticism as he has no connections to the area.
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SNP Leader Alex Salmond (right) and SNP candidate John Mason clean a shop window while on the campaign trail in Glasgow
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Audience members listen as David Cameron delivers a speech during a rally at Philips high school in Bury
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Liberal Democrat's leader Nick Clegg making a campaign visit to an Asda supermarket in the Oldham East and Saddleworth constituency
Photograph: Christopher Thomond

Labour party officials hold the doors open as Gordon Brown and his wife walk with Sam Prince from the NHS during a visit to a health centre in Yeadon, near Leeds
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The Ukip candidate for Buckingham, Nigel Farage, outside the party's office in the town
Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA

Clegg launches the Liberal Democrat manifesto at the Bloomberg building in London
Photograph: Daniel Deme/EPA

Nick Clegg smells recycled bubblegum during a visit to 2K Manufacturing in Luton, Bedfordshire
Photograph: Chris Radburn/PA

The former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown is interviewed by a TV crew as he campaigns with candidate Dan Rogerson in Rock, Cornwall
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The shadow foreign secretary and former Conservative leader William Hague launches the Conservative manifesto in Bolton
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Samantha Cameron speaks with people eating lunch at the Surma community centre in north London during an election campaign visit
Photograph: Chris Jackson/Reuters

Cameron and his wife greet supporters as they leave Battersea power station after the manifesto launch
Photograph: Oli Scarff/Reuters

David Cameron addresses a campaign rally in Loughborough
Photograph: Andrew Parsons/EPA

The Respect MP George Galloway talks on a phone as he canvasses for votes in Poplar, east London
Photograph: Jas Lehal/Reuters

Brown chats with Catheryne McKinley as he visits the home of her parents, Nancy and Les White, in Erewash, Derbyshire
Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Brown and the chancellor, Alistair Darling, visit a college in Derby
Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters

Brown stands with his cabinet as they hold copies of the manifesto
Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters

Brown gestures during the Labour manifesto launch
Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters

Brown launches the Labour manifesto watched by Lord Mandelson, Alistair Darling, Harriet Harman and Ed Miliband
Photograph: Sean Smith

Sarah Brown watches as her husband launches the Labour election manifesto at the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Edgbaston
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Cable visits Cyrenians Cymru, a Swansea-based charity working with the homeless and disadvantaged
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David Cameron, talks to employee Paul Whitehead during a visit to the Fuller's brewery in Chiswick, west London
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Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah visit the Converteam factory in Rugby
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The Labour party election campaign director Douglas Alexander (centre) talks to reporters on a visit to Rugby
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