Lib Dems: We are main contenders in two-horse race

GORDON BROWN yesterday vowed to fight to “the very last second” for a Labour victory in the general election, as the Liberal Democrats claimed they were now the main contenders in a two-horse race with the Tories.

The prime minister pledged “to try harder, to work longer and to dig deeper” in the remaining days after the third andfinal leaders’ debate failed to deliver the breakthrough Labour strategists were hoping for.

With the party’s hopes of a fourth historic victory apparently slipping away, former prime minister Tony Blair made his first appearance of the campaign to insist it was still possible to turn it around in the final days before polling on May 6.