To what extent should Cameron and Clegg use Brown’s gaffe against him?
Given the timing of Brown’s Mega Gaffe, you’ve got to wonder how it will play out in the TV debate tonight. Will it, for instance, mean that he gets a hostile reception? Will he try to defuse the situation by repeating his apologies, or perhaps by making some sort of light out of it (“Yesterday, I met a woman in Rochdale…”)? Will it overwhelm the deeply serious economic questions which need asking and answering? And so on. There’s one question, in particular, though, that I’d be keen to hear CoffeeHousers’ views on: how much should Cameron and Clegg use Brown’s gaffe against him? My thinking is that they’ve played it
