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| [00:00.00] | The BBC has learned that the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown |
| [00:03.44] | has decided that the British general election will take place on May 6th. |
| [00:07.56] | Mr. Brown will go to Buckingham Palace tomorrow Tuesday |
| [00:11.41] | to ask Queen Elizabeth to dissolve parliament, |
| [00:13.53] | and then make a formal announcement of the election date. |
| [00:16.34] | That will start the official election campaign, |
| [00:18.96] | which, a BBC correspondent says, |
| [00:21.32] | will be dominated by issues of taxation and spending |
| [00:24.31] | in the wake of the global recession. |