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Tories slam the door on Brown

Tory election poster
Conservative election poster 2010. Photograph: public domain

The Tories have left no stone unturned in the battle to score last minute PR points ahead of the first leader debate this evening in Manchester. In a last-minute bit of piss-taking the Tories have created a poster ad playing on shots in today's newspapers of Gordon Brown's PR men crouching down to hold hospital swing doors open to provide a "more dramatic" entrance for TV cameras. The Tory poster, which is running in locations including Manchester's Piccadilly Gardens, has in bold type: "Welcome to Manchester Your Highness." Smaller type says: "Show Labour the door on 6 May." Tories 1, Labour 0 in the warm-up for the great debate?

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