Scottish Start for Liberal Democrat campaign

LibDem leader, MP Nick Clegg, was in Glasgow today to officially get his party’s general election campaign under way. As the marginal seats across the country are said to ultimately represent the determining factor in this election, Clegg has promised to drop in on as many such constituencies as possible in the month leading up to election. In Scotland, only a few hundred votes separate the Libder Democrats from the Tories in second place.

While in Glasgow, Mr Clegg called the Tories’ financial plans a ‘VAT bomb’, saying that people would be forced to pay up to £389 more in VAT every year while under a Conservative ruling. Not that the public would fare much better, under a Labour cabinet, he announced. Scottish Lib Dem leader Tavish Scott, as well as Charles Kennedy, also took part in the Scottish launch of the party’s campaign in the city. From there, Clegg was due to travel on to other constituency, with his schedule for today alone taking him on more than 1,100 miles by road or air.