Clegg: "If Brown is third, he will not be prime minister"

26/04/2010 09:00:00

The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, said yesterday that Gordon Brown will not remain prime minister if the Labour Party is third in votes in the election on May 6. With his statements, Clegg found himself running for prime minister, because at this stage the Liberals will have the legitimacy of having won the support of the public.

His remarks coincide with a wave of polls in the Sunday papers that confirm that the Conservatives hardly achieve its goal of achieving an absolute majority, which would leave the government formation in Clegg. However, and although there is some disparity of results, polls consolidate the conservative leadership in voter turnout, with numbers ranging between 34% and 36%.

Also the positive expectations of the Liberals have strengthened, who are second in four of the five surveys with rates of between 28% and 31% of the vote, although one of them gives only 23%. The democrats are worse off, which would be third with between 26% and 28%, but gives them a 30%.

Clegg's statements, on The Andrew Marr Show The BBC, are significant precisely because the polls predict that Gordon Brown will be third in percentage of votes, but despite its decline in this round of polls the Conservatives could still get more seats.

In his interview with Andrew Marr he insisted, as has been done for the campaign, the liberals agree with "a fairer tax system, reform the education system, a new economic system and, of course, a profound reform of the Westminster political system. "

In recent days, conservatives are starting to send messages in favor of a pact with the Liberals and David Cameron yesterday seemed to assume that it may be necessary to change the electoral system.