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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing a general election he is almost certain to lose. But his challenger David Cameron, the leader of the opposition Conservatives, is something of an unknown quantity. Whoever wins, the country's economic problems mean that Britain's next leader will face an unenviable task.

For Trevor Kavanagh, the hunting season he has been looking forward to for years is finally beginning. He has never been fond of Labour politicians, but now they are like unprotected game.

Kavanagh, who is bald, has a beard and is wearing a suit, is one of those militant columnists unique to London: a tabloid intellectual, conservative, charming and ruthless. He works for the British tabloid newspaper The Sun.

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