BBC新闻100篇 News Item 1

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.