Monday
Bit of a problem with the TV election debates. We want one debate. Mr Clegg wants three. Gordon wants 56 — two a day for four weeks of the campaign involving all our front-bench spokesmen. And he says he wants a special extended three-hour debate between Gids and Mr Darling with a ‘maths bee’, where they are made to do sums before a live studio audience. He sent Dave a note saying: ‘No calculators, just pencils without rubbers on the end.’ How silly. Dave did not reply of course. He does not do threatening ultimatums — it’s beneath him. We let Mr Boles deal with it. He sent a text to Gordon saying: ‘You’ve got to ask yourself, do you feel lucky? Well, do you, punk?’ Brilliant. Almost as good as the text he sent Boris after his conference speech, threatening to have his legs broken — in Italian! So clever.
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