David Cameron has vowed to give the closing stages of the election campaign "everything I've got" as he dismissed talk of deals with the Liberal Democrats.
In an upbeat message to party activists, the Tory leader said he was approaching the last days of the campaign with "energy, energy, energy".
Out on the campaign trail he twice had to run the gauntlet of British National Party supporters.
At a hospital in Stevenage, he was greeted by a small group shouting "British jobs for British workers," while in Dagenham about 75 BNP members, including leader Nick Griffin, confronted Mr Cameron as he arrived to talk about the NHS.
In another boost, after The Times came out in favour of the Tories, The Sunday Express said it too was backing Mr Cameron's party because they were offering "a long overdue return to decency and traditional values".
Campaigning in his Oxfordshire constituency, Mr Cameron dismissed talk of deals with the Lib Dems in the event of a hung Parliament. "All I'm thinking of in these last six days is how to secure the victory - not because it would be good for the Conservative Party but because it would be good for our country," he said. "I'm not going to be thinking about other results. I'm going to be thinking about what our country needs."
Mr Cameron pledged to be "compassionate" in taking tough decisions if elected on Thursday. "We are in the last six days, but I'm going to give it everything I've got because I think this country is crying out for real change that will work for people, and that's what the Conservatives will deliver."
In Dagenham he told health workers and GPs that a Tory Government would fund extra cancer drugs through a £200 million fund and free them from effort "sapping" targets.
He also promised not to inflict "yet another reorganisation" on the health service. "I know you are sceptical of politicians," Mr Cameron told them before signing a copy of the party's "contract" with voters. "I want you to hold us to this. If we don't deliver you can kick us out in five years' time."
