First thoughts on second leaders’ debate

Gordon Brown’s “like me or not, I can deliver” will be heard again and again I suspect. David Cameron spoke to camera – where did he get that idea?

For Daily Mail readers’ benefit, Nick Clegg clarified which side he would’ve been on in World War Two – his mother was a POW and he believes in British values.

Gordon Brown looked a touch laboured when he said NC and DC looked like his boys squabbling at bath time. David Cameron’s moment of maximum danger MAY be over – Nick Clegg said the Tories associated with “nutters, anti-semites and homophobes” in Europe but the format doesn’t lead to points like that being developed – he got quite a glare from David Cameron for that.

I suspect that for all the coverage of David Cameron’s promise of a referendum before the next EU treaty many may have been hearing that for the first time.

The very good question “would you take part in future operation to get rid of Al-Qaida from a country?” is getting, not surprisingly, wide roaming answers. David Cameron’s talking about Trident, which I don’t think the questioner was getting at.

This has allowed Gordon Brown to tell Nick Clegg to “get real” and David Cameron to say “I agree with Gordon” – could this start a cult run of t-shirts?