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Regulars Letters 6 Leader 8 Diary 9 The BBC’s Jeremy Vine writes about the terror of Andrew Rawnsley’s success and why the expenses scandal will get the public interested in politics Total Opinion Conservatives to win? 10 Andrew Hawkins examines whether the Conservatives can pull off an election win and where they have gone wrong so far Quotes 11 Debate 12 Will the election reconnect the public with politics? Labour candidate Rachel Reeves and FT journalist George Parker discuss Total History Lessons of Labour’s wilderness years 72 Francis Beckett looks at the party’s last long stint in opposition, and pinpoints the mistakes it must avoid, should it lose the general election Where are they now? 73 Former MP Rupert Allason Memorabilia 75 Parliamentary under-secretary Lord Bach, a relation of Emmeline Pankhurst, treasures a fire screen embroidered with the names of suffragettes imprisoned at Holloway They were also MPs 76 Thomas Hughes, author of Tom Brown’s School Days

Jeremy Vine’s diary p9

How to get the message across p84

Total Campaigns Being hung ain’t all bad 78 A hung Parliament could act as a welcome corrective to governments’ tendencies to force bills and budgets through, argues Akash Paun Seven steps to that great campaign speech 80 John Shosky on making your speech an integral part of a well-conceived and missiondriven road to victory Golden rules of GOTV 82 Luke Akehurst says that, for an effective final Get Out The Vote push, you must have a clear strategy How to win on the day 84 A checklist to create truly effective polling-day literature Count on the law 85 Matthew Richardson explains that challenging the returning officer on whether a vote is in or out could be the deciding factor in an election Technology 86 Dictaphones and voice out could be the deciding factor in an election Technology 86 Dictaphones and voice recorders Get the vote out the electronic way 88 Mark Pack explains how to use email, Twitter and other social networks to the people voting recorders Get the vote out the electronic way 88 Mark Pack explains how to use email, Twitter and other social networks to the people voting

Campaign Doctor 90

Campaign Doctor 90

Total Life Elections book guide 92 Keith Simpson MP takes us through must-read election books Book reviews 94 Speak for Britain by Martin Pugh and Unreliable Sources by John Simpson Brought to book 95 Diana Wallis MEP Stiffed! 96 John Higginson and Clodagh Hartley discuss their new play on the expenses scandal Number 10 97 Emily Sutton reviews a classic TV series from the 1980s

Film Reviews 98 We take a look at the latest offering from Roman Polanski, entitled The Ghost, and Phil Reynolds finds Four Lions to be a surprisingly intelligent film about suicide bombers Hinterland 100 John Bercow MP on his love of tennis Off the record: Election stories 102 Top ten political apologies 103 Election quiz answers 104 If we were PM 106 The Original Bucks Fizz