Edward Pearce, parliamentary sketchwriter, describes life on the election trail. His 21 day journey takes him through the territory of all three parties, travelling from Battersea to Huntingdon by way of Cardiff and Edinburgh, he passes through constituencies both safe and marginal. This diary of his experiences presents a mixture of political drama and colourful detail - a front-line correspondent's account of the innumerable small-scale battles which decide the outcome of the three-week war.