London, September 27: The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown says that he and his comrades in their centre-left Labor party are facing “the fight of our lives” ahead of a general election.
As the party prepares for its final conference before the election, Brown said the choice between Labor and the main opposition Conservatives would be “starker than ever” as Britain seeks to come through a deep recession.
In addition the Finance minister, Alistair Darling, warned that Labor appeared to have lost “the will to live”, telling the Observer newspaper, “We don’t look as if we have got fire in our bellies. We have got to come out fighting.”
The centre-right Conservatives, led by David Cameron, have been leading in the opinion polls by a wide margin for months, suggesting that Labor has an uphill battle to win in next year’s vote to take a fourth term in office.
“We know this will be the fight of our lives. But we will fight hard because this election is about everything we care about –fairness and responsibility,” Brown wrote in a Labor policy document.
—–Agencies