Will there be a snap election? Nigel Adams says Gordon Brown should.."just get on with it.." 

Apparently, the Prime Minister has been rallying the Labour troops, telling a private meeting of candidates in key seats recently that they needed to have their election material ready by the end of January. The activity has not gone unnoticed. Last week, one of Britain's biggest bookmakers suspended betting on a 25 March election after receiving some unusually big wagers.

Nigel Adams commented "Mr Brown has form on election speculation as he bottled out of a poll in late 2007. An election then may have delivered Labour a victory back then"

"but we have now seen what Britain is like under Brown and it's not a pretty sight with crippling deficits, record bankrupcies and rising unemployment. He should just get on with it and let people decide whether they want five more years of hard Labour"

A March poll would see voters turning out before tax increases kick in, such as a 50p top rate on earnings over £150,000. It would also help Labour avoid holding an austerity Budget, during which the Chancellor, Alistair Darling, would come under huge pressure to reveal the programmes that will be cut to reduce Britain's record deficit.

David Cameron said that his party was "all systems go" for a 25 March election, which he described as "quite a likely date". "I certainly want an early election," he told Sky News. "We really need to get on with this. I hope the election can come as early in the New Year as possible." He said Mr Brown had lost the "moral authority" to govern.