by Mabon Dane

Created on: February 24, 2010   Last Updated: February 25, 2010

On around May 6th 2010 a general election is expected to be called in Britain, which will decide both the next Government and the leader of that Government, the Prime Minister. By tradition it will be the leader of the majority or the largest party winner who will lead Britain.

With less than three months to go there are three alternatives for the Prime Minister position, who will come from the Conservative Party, Labour or the Liberal Democrats. There will be a number of minor parties also expected to win seats in Parliament, including Plaid Cymru, the Scottish National Party, the Ulster Unionist Party, the Democrat Unionist Party, Sinn Fein and a seat is expected to fall to the British National Party; however, none of these small parties will have enough influence to have a member elected as Prime Minister.  

It is unlikely at this stage with around only three months to go until Election Day that any change in the leadership of the leading three British political parties will occur.  The current leaders are: Gordon Brown (Labour); David Cameron (Conservative); Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats).

The Liberal Democrats are expected to pick up a few extra seats, but will remain the third largest party at Westminster. The Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg although a safe pair of hands, lacks the charisma or public profile to be Prime Minister. 

Indeed, amongst British voters there appears a lack of knowledge who the Liberal Democrat leader is, mostly due to the Liberal Democrat failure to aggressively raise their public profile in the cut and thrust of British politics. 

The Liberal Democrats have for several years languished third in the low twenties or teens in the polls, with the British public unsure what they stand for.

The current Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to lead the Labour party into the election campaign, despite fighting off two leadership challenges to his position.  Gordon Brown has since taking over as leader from Tony Blair in June 2007 suffered from a roller coaster of political disaster, blunder and a worsening economic climate in Britain. 

The polls have not been kind to Gordon Brown, placing the Conservatives in the lead for over a year running into the election. Only recently, thanks to a tearful display by Brown in a television interview, has Labour started clawing back some ground from the Conservatives in the polls. 

In the last two weeks, signalling the start of what will be an

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