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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tories-promise-byelection-fight.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed that the Tories will fight for the by-election seat" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-tories-promise-byelection-fight.jpg" alt="Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed that the Tories will fight for the by-election seat"/></a></p>
<p>The Tories will fight hard for votes in Oldham East and Saddleworth ahead of next week&#8217;s by-election, the Prime Minister has vowed.</p>
<p>David Cameron rejected claims that the by-election would be a referendum on the coalition Government and denied his visit to the constituency was a &#8220;token&#8221; gesture.</p>
<p>He spent the afternoon in Oldham with Tory candidate Kashif Ali leafleting door-to-door before visiting a car body workshop in the town, where he chatted to mechanics.</p>
<p>There had been speculation the Conservatives would allow the Liberal Democrats a clear run at the seat to give Nick Clegg&#8217;s party a much-needed win and morale boost after the party took a hit over the hike in university tuition fees. The Deputy Prime Minister has decided to target the seat, which the party&#8217;s candidate Elwyn Watkins missed out on by just 103 votes at the General Election.</p>
<p>But the winner, Labour former minister Phil Woolas, was stripped of his May victory after a court found he deliberately misled voters with his campaign literature, prompting next week&#8217;s by-election.</p>
<p>Mr Cameron insisted the Tories were not backing away from the contest. His presence in the constituency as the first Prime Minister to campaign in a by-election since 1998 was proof the Conservatives were taking the fight seriously, he said.</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 added. &#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 (Labour) had an MP who behaved appallingly and was quite rightly stripped of his place.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mr Cameron also gave his full backing to Mr Ali. He said: &#8220;I would like people to vote for Kashif Ali. He&#8217;s a very good candidate. He was born locally, educated locally and lives locally. I think he has done a very good job and I think the response I have been getting has been very positive about him and his positive campaign.&#8221;</p>
<p>Earlier, Labour leader Ed Miliband said the scale of Government cuts was &#8220;not an inevitability&#8221; but a political choice. He declared: &#8220;No other country is cutting at the rate we are and that should give you a clue to the fact that this Government is not, as they claim, pursuing a centre-ground agenda.&#8221;</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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