UK election campaign to focus on economic issues

The British Prime Minister, David Cameron, travelled to Buckingham Palace earlier to inform the Queen of the dissolution of Parliament.

In doing so he fired the starting gun in what he called the "most important general election in a generation".

Speaking outside Downing Street, he said the country faced a "stark choice" between keeping the country on the right track with the Conservatives -- and the "economic chaos" Labour would bring.

At the launch of Labour's business manifesto, the party's leader, Ed Miliband, said the Conservatives posed a clear "danger" to UK firms by risking an exit from the EU.

Kamal Ahmed is the BBC's Business Editor and he tells us what each of the parties were promising.