In just under four weeks, the UK will face its General Election and quite something it might prove to be. I am no fan of either of the leaders of the two main parties - David "call me Dave" Cameron and Ed "Miliboy" Miliband -and had no interest in listening to them calling each other idiots on the TV debate that took place recently. But at the end of the day one of the two will end up as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. And, as Marcus Ashworth, head of fixed income at BESI, reminded me last week, the contest is on a knife-edge. "This election is coming down to two words: Economy vs Equality," he wrote. "And I defy anyone who says this is all dull -it's a right humdinger."
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