The election in pictures, with Martin Argles

29 March 2010: Election posters on the wall of Conservative Central Office
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29 March: George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, hold a press conference at Conservative Central Office
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29 March: Osborne at his press conference
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24 March: Alistair Darling with the budget box outside 11 Downing Street as he prepares for his budget speech
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24 March: Alistair Darling and his wife, Margaret, on budget day
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23 March: Tory spin doctor and former News of the World editor Andy Coulson during David Cameron's monthly press conference
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23 March: Robin Hood tax campaigners protest outside the Treasury, London. The Robin Hood Tax has been suggested by a movement of people who wish to see a tax that takes a tiny amount of money from speculative banking transactions, raising billions of pounds every year, to then be distributed to help fight global poverty and climate change
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22 March: Nick Clegg and Vince Cable at London Stock Exchange to announce Lib Dem economic policy
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19 March: Ed Miliband, the climate change secretary, on the roof of his office
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18 March: Lord Mandelson and Ken Clarke debate policy at British Chambers of Commerce
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16 March: Dr Richard Taylor, independent MP for Wyre Forest, outside the Houses of Parliament, London. In 2005 Taylor became the only independent MP to have retained his seat for a second term in the house since the 1979 elections
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15 March: The coffin of former Labour leader Michael Foot arrives at Golders Green crematorium for his funeral, adorned with a Plymouth Argyle football scarf
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5 March: A demonstration by the English Defence League in favour of the visit to Britain of the Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders, who was screening his film Fitna at the House of Lords. There was a counter-demonstration by those opposed to the visit
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4 March: Gordon Brown and his wife Sarah welcome Jacob Zuma, the president of South Africa, and his latest wife Thobeka to Downing Street
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3 March: Eric Pickles, the chairman of the Tory party, outside the Commons
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1 March: Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader, speaks at Salvation Army headquarters about creating a fairer society
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28 February: David Cameron makes his keynote speech at the Conservative spring conference in Brighton
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28 February: Ladbrokes's odds board. Behind, people queue to watch Cameron give his speech
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28 February: Demonstrators in Brighton at the Tory spring conference
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26 February: US civil rights campaigner Jesse Jackson attends a photocall organized by Operation Black Vote to encourage black people to register for voting
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24 February: Gordon Brown leaves 10 Downing Street to attend prime minister's question time. Brown said he played no part in negative briefings about his chancellor after Alistair Darling said the 'forces of hell' had been unleashed on him by No 10
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23 February: David Miliband, the foreign secretary, and Jack Straw, the justice secretary, talk outside the Foreign Office, after leaving the weekly cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street
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23 February: Bob Ainsworth, the defence secretary, leaves the cabinet meeting
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23 February: Ed Miliband, the climate change secretary, speaks to Harriet Harman, the leader of the Commons, after the weekly cabinet meeting
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22 February: Harold Tilllman, chairman of the British Fashion Council, and Carolyn Rush, the BFC's joint chair, talk to Samantha Cameron (centre), the wife of the Conservative leader
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22 February: Brown's ex-spin doctor Charlie Whelan leaves Downing Street
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20 February: Gordon Brown at the Labour party launch for their general election campaign slogan 'A future fair for all'
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20 February: Brown at the Labour slogan launch at the University of Warwick
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20 February: Darling at the launch
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20 February: Harman joins in the applause at the launch
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20 February: Conservative-supporting students picket Labour's campaign slogan launch at the University of Warwick
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