The General Election has been called for just over four weeks’ time on May 6th. At the party’s headquarters, Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg MP said, “It is a very exciting opportunity for everyone in Britain who wants fairness and real change, who wants something different. This isn’t the old politics of a two-horse race between Labour and the Conservative Party. The real choice is between the old politics of Labour and Conservatives and something different, something new and that is what we offer.”

Across Tameside the Lib Dems will be fighting to do even better than in 2005, where we gained support in all three constituencies – Ashton-under-Lyne, Denton & Reddish, and Stalybridge & Hyde – while Labour support dropped and the Tories hardly moved.