UK General Election: Cameron 'still fighting for a majority'

David Cameron has maintained he is "still fighting for a majority" as the election campaign reaches its final stage, but has given a broad hint he is ready to form another coalition with the Liberal Democrats if Thursday's poll creates a hung parliament.

Speaking ahead of a last round of campaigning, Mr Cameron said: "I'm still fighting for a majority. We can achieve an overall majority that gives Britain a strong, stable government."

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But with polls suggesting neither he nor Ed Miliband, Labour leader, will secure an overall majority, the prime minister's team is preparing to move quickly to open talks with the Lib Dems in a hung parliament.

Mr Cameron declined to say what he would do in such a situation, but pointed to the fact that he "put the country first" and formed a coalition with the Lib Dems in 2010 when he failed to win a majority. "I can't say more than that," he said.

Speaking to the BBC on Wednesday morning, Mr Cameron repeated his claim that voters should reject Labour because Mr Miliband could only enter Downing Street with Scottish National party support, an alliance which he claimed raised "huge questions of credibility".

"The SNP don't want Britain to be a success, they don't want it to exist," the prime minister said.

Mr Cameron insisted he had the appetite to serve as prime minister for a full five-year second term, adding: "I feel more passionate and enthusiastic about the next five years because we are building on strong foundations in this country."

Meanwhile, Ukip has suspended a candidate after he was filmed apparently threatening to shoot a Conservative rival "between the eyes".

Robert Blay, standing for Ukip in North East Hampshire, was filmed by the Daily Mirror making the comments about Ranil Jayawardena - providing an unwelcome dose of bad news for Nigel Farage's party on the eve of polling day.

A Ukip spokesman described his comments as "abhorrent" but the party claimed that candidates from other parties had also been suspended in recent months for various misdemeanours but had received less national publicity.

The Mirror reported that Mr Blay said that if Mr Jayawardena was ever to become Britain's first Asian prime minister "I will personally put a bullet between his eyes".<>

Questioning Mr Jayawardena's background, he said: "His family have only been here since the 70s. You are not British enough to be in our parliament."

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