Key UK manufacturing gauge tumbles six days before election

By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - British manufacturing growth suffered its sharpest slowdown in more than two years last month, a survey showed on Thursday, adding to worries about the economic recovery six days before a national election. Financial data company Markit said its monthly Purchasing Managers' Index for manufacturing dropped to a seven-month low of 51.9 in April from a downwardly revised 54.0 in March, the biggest one-month fall since February 2013. "Today's UK PM