(6 Jun 2001)

Nottingham - POOL
1. British Prime Minister Tony Blair enters news conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister
"Put that cross on the ballot paper for taking this country forward and building on what we've started and for not going back to the years of Conservative instability, cuts in services and social division. Tomorrow is an important day. It is an important day for our country and I hope our country speaks out, uses its voice and uses its voice to build a better future for our nation."
3. Cutaway of audience

London - APTN
4. William Hague and his wife Ffion Hague arrive at Smithfield Meat Market, London
5. Mid-shot of Hague
6. Wide-shot of market and workers
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) William Hague, Conservative leader
"Well it obviously is a central issue because our ability to do everything else depends on our ability to run our own affairs in this country. And giving up the pound would threaten our ability to run our own affairs in this country and that is why it is vital tomorrow to save the pound. Anyway, enjoy the day."

London - POOL
8. Hague with his wife greeting meat traders
9. Close-shot of meat in counters
10. Hague in the Cock Tavern restaurant, eating breakfast
11. Hague entering election rally
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) William Hague, Conservative leader
"And tomorrow the world will find out that the forces of conservatism are on the march. I've met them by the thousands in this election campaign. They are farmers laid low by a foot and mouth outbreak that has lasted longer and bitten deeper than it need have done because of the dither and delay of this government."
13. Charles Kennedy entering Liberal Democrat press conference
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Charles Kennedy, Liberal Democrat leader
(Q: If the next government is a Labour government, will you apply immediate pressure on it to commit to the Euro referendum?)
"Irrespective of the outcome of the election one of the important issues that will need to be addressed amongst the three UK parties is this issue, sooner rather than later because I think we've got to now get an all-party act together and now the election will be out of the way this is the time to start making progress. So yes is the answer, we will certainly putting that quite high in the list of priorities."
15. Wide-shot of news conference

London - APTN
16. Robert Worcester, Chairman of Market and Opinion research International (MORI), at desk
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Worcester, Chairman of MORI
"There is no question that Labour is going to win this election. The question is by how much and that depends on the turnout. I think they will be about 20 seats down from the 179 majority they won on the first of May, 1997."
18. Newspaper
19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Worcester, Chairman of MORI
"William Hague would have liked this election to be about the European Single Currency - the referendum on the Euro - but the public didn't buy it. They think this election is about service delivery health, education, police, law and order and social services. The Euro is 10th in people's view in terms of importance on how they're going to vote."
20. Pan from Worcester to his computer

STORYLINE:

On the last day of campaigning in Britain's general election, Prime Minister Tony Blair and opponent William Hague made impassioned appeals to voters on Wednesday as a new poll pointed to the lopsided lead of Blair's Labor party narrowing somewhat.

The leaders of the U.K's political parties hit the campaign trail early on Wednesday, in a final bid to win over voters.















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