TODAY IN A SENTENCE CAMPAIGN CATCH-UP PICK OF THE ANALYSIS

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The main party leaders try to stress voters face a real choice on polling day, while Iraq threatens to eclipse domestic issues as relatives of dead British troops threaten legal action.

The three main parties try to stress the differences between them as they continue their blitz of the marginal constituencies with less than 48 hours before polling day.

The wife of the latest British soldier killed in Iraq says she blames Tony Blair as other troops' families serve notice of an attempt to bring court action over the war.

Watch widow Ann Toward criticise Tony Blair

The Lib Dems are primed for the best election result in a generation, Charles Kennedy is claiming.

Watch Claire Rayner at the Lib Dems' news briefing

Tony Blair is making the economy the centrepiece of his final appeals to voters in Labour's election campaign.

Conservative leader Michael Howard pledges a "better, brighter Britain" as he embarks on a final blitz for votes in the party's target seats.

The Green Party have begun a final push to try to make history by gaining their first MP.

Campaigners round on reports that the government is planning to replace the UK's ageing Trident submarine nuclear deterrent.

Large numbers of voters may only just have tuned into the campaign and all three big parties want them to hear their message loud and clear.

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German newspaper Handelsblatt draws parallels between Tony Blair and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who also faces an imminent election.

Both have to boost confidence in their faltering reforms, the paper says, and both are viewed with suspicion by their own parties and the trade unions.

However, the paper says there are also profound differences between the two.

Schroeder has implemented a programme of cuts to public spending.

In contrast, Blair inherited a strong economy from the Conservatives, and has invested in public spending.

However, the paper criticises the prime minister for failing to achieve structural reform of the public services.

"He needed to adapt public services to a modern, market-oriented consumerist society.

"Yet his tentative reform skirts over such matters, as university student fees and the National Health Service have so far been overwhelmed by a flood of public spending which, while designed by Brown to assuage Old Labour instincts, presage imminent economic problems aplenty."

Former agony aunt Claire Rayner does battle for Charles Kennedy's Liberal Democrats at their daily press conference

It was Tony Blair's fault... He shouldn't have done it. What was the point of sending all them over there?