British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, center left, and his wife Sarah, center right, arrive at St Pancras Station, London Tuesday April 6, 2010 to take the train to Rochester in Kent, after Brown called a May 6 general election. Britain will hold a national election May 6, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Tuesday. The bitterly contested race will be dominated by a recession-wracked economy and a sense that 13 years of Labour rule may be coming to an end. (AP Photo/Stefan Rousseau, Pool)