[00:00.13]The BBC has learned that the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has decided
[00:04.56]that the British general election will take place on May 6th.
[00:08.09]Mr. Brown will go to Buckingham Palace tomorrow Tuesday
[00:11.69]to ask Queen Elizabeth to dissolve parliament,
[00:13.76]and then make a formal announcement of the election date.
[00:16.74]That will start the official election campaign,
[00:19.20]which, a BBC correspondent says,
[00:21.16]will be dominated by issues of taxation
[00:23.85]and spending in the wake of the global recession.

The BBC has learned that the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has decided
that the British general election will take place on May 6th.
Mr. Brown will go to Buckingham Palace tomorrow Tuesday
to ask Queen Elizabeth to dissolve parliament,
and then make a formal announcement of the election date.
That will start the official election campaign,
which, a BBC correspondent says,
will be dominated by issues of taxation
and spending in the wake of the global recession.