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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/cameron-denies-byelection-pact.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Prime Minister David Cameron made a speech to delegates at the regional growth fund road show in Manchester" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-cameron-denies-byelection-pact.jpg" alt="Prime Minister David Cameron made a speech to delegates at the regional growth fund road show in Manchester"/></a></p>
<p>Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed the Tories will fight hard for votes in next week&#8217;s by-election and rejected claims it will be a referendum on the coalition Government.</p>
<p>Mr Cameron denied his visit to Oldham East and Saddleworth was a &#8220;token&#8221; gesture and said he was breaking with political convention in being the first Prime Minister to campaign at a by-election since 1998.</p>
<p>Both coalition parties have denied suggestions they had struck a deal, with the Conservatives, seen as outsiders, going easy in the campaign in the hope of a Liberal Democrat victory.</p>
<p>&#8220;First of all find me a Prime Minister in the last 10 years who has been to a by-election. They did not go,&#8221; Mr Cameron said. &#8220;It is about choosing a new MP for Oldham and Saddleworth, it is not a verdict on Nick Clegg or the coalition or anybody else. They had an MP who behaved appallingly and was quite rightly stripped of his place.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Cameron was asked about his &#8220;extreme warmth&#8221; towards his party&#8217;s Liberal Democrat opponent in the political fight and whether the relationship was too &#8220;cosy&#8221;. &#8220;I have had meetings with our candidate Kashif Ali,&#8221; Mr Cameron said, &#8220;Apart from taking some type of laid back attitude, I&#8217;m the first Prime Minister in over a decade to visit an English by-election, this is a challenge for political historians.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Cameron, speaking at the regional growth fund road show in Manchester before travelling to the constituency, added: &#8220;I will be on the streets of Oldham and Saddleworth, campaigning for our candidate Kashif Ali. We will be fighting very hard for every vote.&#8221;</p>
<p>Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg on Wednesday made his second visit to the constituency, saying his Liberal Democrat party was &#8220;here to win&#8221;.</p>
<p>Lib Dem candidate Elwyn Watkins was just 103 votes short of unseating Labour&#8217;s Phil Woolas at the general election last May, making the constituency one of Mr Clegg&#8217;s top targets. Mr Woolas was removed as MP by the courts because of misleading leaflets he put out during the general election campaign.</p>
<p>Labour leader Ed Miliband visited Oldham on Monday to support candidate Debbie Abrahams, his second visit of the campaign.</p>
<p>The full list of candidates in alphabetical order are: Debbie Abrahams (Labour); Derek Adams (British National Party); Kashif Ali (Conservative); Peter Allen (Green Party); David Bishop (Bus-Pass Elvis Party); The Flying Brick (Monster Raving Loony Party); Loz Kaye (Pirate Party of the United Kingdom); Stephen Morris (English Democrats); Paul Nuttall (UK Independence Party); Elwyn Watkins (Liberal Democrats).</p>
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