Premier Ewart Brown tonight reached out to core Progressive Labour Party supporters with pledges to help the poor, avoid giving thousands of foreigners Bermudian status and refrain from introducing "draconian" measures on crime.

In a televised election address, the Premier said a Bermudian mother-of-four earning $42,000 a year living in a rented apartment should get a better deal from tax cuts than a 22-year-old earning the same and living with wealthy parents.

He dismissed the United Bermuda Party's plans to give long-term residents Bermudian status as a move which would "dilute our vote, quiet our voices".

And he suggested the UBP's Three Strikes proposal on crime would not help criminal offenders who are "our children, nieces, nephews and cousins".

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