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Labour underdogs can beat Tory millionaires
11:34 am, Sun 7th Feb 2010
Hello. Very busy today and looking forward to my tweet-up in Leeds after giving the closing speech at Yorkshire and Humber Labour conference. But thought you'd might like to see a peak at what I'm going to see. Here's the press release: Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott will today fire the starting gun of the general election campaign by telling party activists Labour's team of underdogs can come from behind to clinch an historic fourth term. He'll also warn David Cameron "the general election is not for sale" and that Labour will "fight them on the Facebook, tackle them on Twitter and destroy them on the doorstep." Mr Prescott will use yesterday's remarkable 2-1 victory by Hull City over Manchester City, the richest team in the world, as an analogy of Labour's future battle against the Tories. Mr Prescott, who is back on his Prescott Express battle bus, will tell delegates in the closing speech of the Yorkshire and Humber Labour conference: "It's good to be an underdog. We saw a team of underdogs led by Brown, attacked by the press, take on a team of millionaires...
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