Of course, election campaigning has been under way unofficially since MPs returned from their Christmas break in January, but the gloves will now really come off in what is likely to be a dirty and hard-fought campaign.
Local constituency parties will go to extreme lengths to achieve an edge, often flying in the face of national policies to pick up on hot local issues.
Young people will be a focus of the election, unfortunately often portrayed as a problem rather than citizens with equal rights to the rest of the community. For example, it was significant that Labour election supremo Alan Milburn recently told members of the UK Youth Parliament young people hadn't been consulted for the party's Children forward not back mini-manifesto.
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