British Election: Polishing up their battle plans for election victory

The two men battling to be Britain’s next prime minister traded insults in the last hours of the too-close-to-call campaign by branding each other a conman and a squatter.

Tory leader David Cameron said his Labour counterpart intended to try and pull off an anti-democratic “con job” by trying to form an administration with tacit SNP support even if the Conservatives came out top in the number of Commons seats won.

Labour hit back by saying that if it was clear there was no chance of the Tories scrambling together a parliamentary majority, Cameron should quit Downing St tomorrow night, rather than “squat” in the official residence until his proposed legislative programme, known as the Queen’s Speech, is inevitably voted down in early June.