Labour chiefs at odds over call for tactical voting

SENIOR Labour figures were last night at odds over calls for the party’s supporters to vote tactically in order to keep the Tories out of power.

With the general election campaign entering its final hours, a rift appeared to be emerging over whether to urge Labour voters to back the Liberal Democrats in seats where they are in a two-way fight with the Tories.

Cabinet ministers Ed Balls and Peter Hain indicated that voters opposed to a Conservative government should “act intelligently” when it came to deciding how to cast their vote tomorrow.