Quotations of the day

Gordon Brown:

I may have not been meeting all the people I should have been meeting, but I certainly tried.

And:

I am not going to talk about what happens after Thursday, because the people are the boss. The people make decisions.

Ken Clarke:

I think there's a still a slim chance we can get an overall majority.

A Tory strategist agrees:

We're not there yet, but still hope to be by Thursday.