Fuel tax protesters are threatening to disrupt the general election with a campaign of oil refinery blockades and go-slows starting on 3 May.

A week-long series of protests against rising fuel taxes all but brought the UK to a halt in 2000.
Those protests caused fuel shortages and led to panic buying at the pumps.

On Friday, Mr Spence, a farmer and haulier from Consett, County Durham, warned that the same thing could happen again if the government did not take action.

"Don't rule anything out - the election would be stopped if we had our way," he said.

"Tony Blair will not have enough fuel in his car to get to the polling station."

He said it would be difficult to stop the farmers and road hauliers, who are meeting in Scotland on Friday, from protesting until 3 May.