Personal finance is key battleground in election

While battlelines have already been drawn and none of the political parties is likely to release their election manifestos until early next week, Cicero Consulting has provided details of what it believes they are likely to contain. Cicero warns there may be several surprises during this campaign, warning also opinion polls could be rendered virtually useless as voter turnout is expected to be even lower than in 2001, when turnout fell to its lowest level since before the second world war. Ian Anderson,director of corporate counsel at Cicero Consulting, says: "The House of Commons lib...