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CHRISTMAS POST CHAOS HITS ELECTION


The Liberal Democrats Leadership Election has been delayed due to the chaos of the christmas post season. Party president Simon Hughes has announced that the deadline for the returning of ballot papers, orginally the 15th of December, has been pushed back to the 5th of January to ease the pressure on party members worried about their postal ballots arriving on time. The victor will now be revealed on the 8th of January.

The campaign between Nick Clegg and Chris Huhne, who ran and lost in the last leadership election 18 months ago, is thought to be neck and neck, with the younger Clegg thought to be perhaps edging out his opponent. The two have clashed over the missile system Trident, and the spat between the two nearly boiled over when Huhne's campaign team sent documents to the BBC titled "Calamity Clegg". The results of the elections are being widely touted as something that could shape the future of the political landscape. With Prime Minister Gordon Brown deciding not to hold a snap election this year, whoever wins will have a substantial amount of time to cement their stamp on the Liberal Democrats as they look to improve on the 62 seats they earned at the 2005 General Election.
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