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Live: Nick Clegg vs Nigel Farage — round one

This is a live blog for tonight’s debate between Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage, kicking off at 7pm. We’ll be adding in audio from the debate below. This page will automatically update every minute.

20:05 I doubt that tonight’s debate will have changed many minds. Farage started off strongly, taking control of the questions on an EU referendum and immigration. But as the debate went on, he began to see a bit one note and Clegg came more into. One mistake I think Farage made was accusing the EU of having ‘blood on its hands’ in the Ukraine, it made him sound like an apologist for Putin. For his part, Clegg will regret saying that people should 'read the small print' on his previous EU referendum promise

1958: Farage accuses the European Union of having ‘blood on its hands in Ukraine’. It’s a very big claim that risks making Farage look like an apologist for Putin.

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