Mr Tony Blair has hinted he might want to "go on and on", saying it will take at least two terms in office for Labour to build the Britain it had promised.
Urging his party to "fight and win" the forthcoming general election, Mr Blair told the Scottish Labour conference: "This country had the Tories for about two decades. It will take at least two terms to build the Britain we promised."
Mr William Hague told Welsh Conservatives that Labour would impose additional taxes later to pay for Mr Gordon Brown's "irresponsible" budget. "He is running up huge bills for the future which can only be paid for with extra taxes in the future," said Mr Hague. "If a family was spending more than it could afford we wouldn't call it prudent, we would call it irresponsible."
He claimed the election would "determine nothing less than whether the crown in parliament remains supreme in the United Kingdom, and whether our people will remain sovereign in their own country."
Mr Hague resumed his assault on Labour at a Tory rally in Edinburgh, where he declared: "The truth is that we have a government that despises the views of the people it purports to represent. A government that is embarrassed by the very country it lives in. A government ashamed of the United Kingdom. Conservatives believe in the union of the United Kingdom," he said.