Key seats targeted as campaign nears end

PARTY leaders targeted key marginal seats yesterday in a final push to win what looks like the closest general election in decades this week.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who is struggling to retain power, campaigned in tight seats in eastern England, while Conservative leader David Cameron, who is ahead in polls, was in the northwest and London.

Amid talk of a possible hung parliament, the knife-edge contest on Thursday is increasingly focused on swing voters in a few dozen seats where the results are too close to call and could determine the outcome.