Election quotes

"You the Portuguese guy?" - a would-be voter to Mr Michael Portillo, canvassing in Kensington and Chelsea.

"You the Portuguese guy?" - a would-be voter to Mr Michael Portillo, canvassing in Kensington and Chelsea.

"Giving up the pound is the best way to be patriotic in the same way that taking a shower is the best way to stay dry" - Mr Martin Edhouse, of Sittingbourne, Kent, in a letter to the Daily Mail.

"We have always said that entry into the single currency is irreversible. It is not just for Christmas" - the shadow foreign secretary, Mr Francis Maude.

"There comes a time in all good elections when excitement starts to mount" - Lord Rees-Mogg.