Gordon Brown has arrived in Strood - just hours after the election was called today.

The Prime Minister paid a visit to Morissons as part of the election campaign trail.

It comes after the Prime Minister went to Buckingham Palace this morning to ask the Queen to dissolve Parliament. The election is expected to be May 6.

Returning from his morning jog, Conservative leader David Cameron said it was "about time".

The former chairman of the Conservative Party, Francis Maude, is set to race to Medway to launch their campaign.

The Gillingham and Rainham constituency and the new one of Rochester and Strood are among Tory key targets.

They must win them to gain overall control. But Mr Maude planned to bypass Rochester where the candidate, Mark Reckless, blotted his copybook by forgetting to tell anyone when his Party Leader, David Cameron, visited last month.

There are eight candidates already known in Chatham and Aylesford, where the South East Minister, Jonathan Shaw, defends the seat. Seven will try to unseat the junior transport minister Paul Clark in Gillingham and Rainham, while seven candidates will be fighting to succeed Bob Marshall Andrews' who retires when parliament finally closes its doors in a week's time.

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