Brown tries to embrace an unwilling Clegg

As everyone (even Labour aides) predicted, David Cameron and Nick Clegg are proving to be more at ease in this format than Gordon Brown.

I doubt Gordon Brown has done anything to alienate people who were inclined towards him but I can’t see him picking up more support because he is saying things in the same way, almost to the exact word, that he’s been trying to communicate with for ages.

Nick Clegg and David Cameron have adapted and have a bigger range – they try to address the people in the audience more and through them the people.

David Cameron hasn’t particularly used the middle position in the same way that Vince Cable did in Channel 4’s Ask the Chancellors debate and that’s because he largely ignores Nick Clegg – unlike Gordon Brown, who, as I said before, is trying to embrace the unwilling Lib Dem leader in a loveless armlock.

Nick Clegg keeps wriggling out of that calling his opponents “you two” repeatedly with a dismissive tone. I think all three are tending to talk too quickly for easy digestion.