Battle for Brighton

Brighton is a battleground of this election – the Conservatives are defending marginal seats in Brighton Kemptown and Hove and are involved in a three way battle to wrench the seat of the country’s only Green MP Caroline lucas in Brighton Pavillion.

Lucas won 16,238 votes – 31.3 per cent, compared with Labour’s 14,986 votes 28.9 per cent and the Conservative’s 12,275 votes, 23.7 per cent.

It’s an odd mix Brighton Pavilion: Students, artists, commuters and families.

David Cameron has made his pitch for it today with an appeal in the local paper the Brighton Argus, asking voters to “stop Labour wrecking our country again”.

He writes that there was a “very real possibility” of Mr Miliband entering Downing Street “on the coat tails” of the SNP, adding: “It would be an alliance between the people who want to bankrupt Britain and the people who want to break up Britain – and it would be disastrous for every city, town and village in this country.”

Last night in the election debates Green leader Natalie Bennett used last nights debate to vow that here party would never prop up a Tory government and to tell voters that the country needed more MPs like Caroline Lucas shaking up parliament.