Well, Cameron saved the best till last. His aides are even joking that they could do
with a fourth debate because their man is really getting in the swing of it. He looked more confident, assured – and spoke convincingly about immigration at last, a subject he fluffed last
time. I’d place Clegg second. Brown was worse than awful: third in this debate, and will probably be third next week’s election too. Clegg was his usual telegenic self – in
thespian terms, an accomplished performance. But he ran away from his own asylum policy, and was comically inept with the facts. He screamed at Cameron: “Will you admit that 80 percent of
immigrants come from the EU?” Cameron did not: because the real figure is a third. To get a basic fact like this wrong, and to shout about it so loudly, is to disqualify oneself from serious
political consideration.

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