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Apr 20 2010  Gordon Brown has confirmed that the UK election will be held on May 6. The prime minister has just returned from a 20-minute meeting with the Queen at Buckingham Palace to ask her to dissolve Parliament. George Parker, political editor, talks to Daniel Garrahan about the kind of campaign we will see in the coming weeks.  (2m 44sec)
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