Posts Tagged “leaders tv debate”
“We cannot afford it” – Cameron on raising income tax threshold to £10k. In 2010.
by Stephen Tall on May 1, 2013
With a hat-tip to Ed Stradling, here’s a reminder of what David Cameron told Nick Clegg about raising the income tax threshold in the first leaders’ debate: Cameron 2010: “I would love to take everyone out of their first £10,000 of income tax, Nick…We cannot afford it” youtube.com/watch?v=rk5HvJ… — Lib Dem Press Office (@LibDemPress) May [...]
How Labour saw Clegg before the 2010 election TV debates
by Stephen Tall on April 16, 2013
There have been a couple of fascinating posts this week by election expert Philip Cowley, a politics professor at Nottingham University. They reveal for the first time the internal briefing prepared for Labour dissecting the debating skills of each of the three party leaders — Clegg, Brown and Cameron — ahead of the 2010 leaders’ [...]
What a difference three months makes #nickcleggsfault
by Stephen Tall on July 15, 2010
Three months ago, Thursday, 15th April, witnessed the UK’s first televised debate between the main party leaders. Here’s a reminder of the close of the first debate, which sparked ‘Cleggmania’ as well as the catchphrase “I agree with Nick”, and the subsequent Twitter hashtag craze #nickcleggsfault … (Available on YouTube here). Up to that point, [...]
The YouGov poll which shows Nick Clegg won the third TV debate
by Stephen Tall on May 2, 2010
An interesting snippet from today’s Sunday Times reporting the latest YouGov tracker poll conducted on Friday and Saturday among nearly 1,500 voters showed that “Nick Clegg narrowly won the debate overall”.
You won’t find the figures in the paper’s report (and I can’t find them on the YouGov site) but the Times’s Samuel Coates reports [...]
Kudos to Clegg: the TV debates wash-up
by Stephen Tall on April 30, 2010
Three programmes, four-and-a-half hours of debate, endless analysis – but one thing’s for sure: Nick Clegg is alone among the three leaders in being able to reflect on them with real pleasure.
David Cameron and the Tories are buoyed by his performance yesterday; understandably so, as most instant polls called it a ‘win’ for him. But [...]
Final debate polls put Cameron ahead, but floating voters choose Clegg
by Stephen Tall on April 30, 2010
All the post-debate polls are in, and four out of five are giving David Cameron a win, with Clegg tied in first place in one, and in second place in three. Brown is last in all but one:
YouGov: Cameron 41%, Clegg 32%, Brown 25%.
ComRes: Cameron 35%, Clegg 33%, Brown 26%.
Populus: Cameron 38%, Clegg 38%, Brown [...]
LDVideo Second Leaders’ Debate Special: Nick Clegg’s opening and closing statements
by Stephen Tall on April 23, 2010
Missed last night’s second leaders’ debate on Sky? Want to re-live some of Nick Clegg’s best bits again? Then here, via the Lib Dem Voice YouTube channel, are his opening and closing statements …
Nick Clegg’s opening statement:
(Also available on YouTube here).
Nick Clegg’s closing statement: wonderful stuff
(Also available on YouTube here).
The 4.5 points I didn’t make on Radio 4′s The World Tonight
by Stephen Tall on April 18, 2010
For the second Friday running, I was one of a trio of pontificators on BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight, alongside the Spectator’s Anne McElvoy and the Mirror’s Kevin Maguire, offering our verdicts on how the election campaign is going. (…)
Four celebrity ‘twumbs-ups’ for Nick Clegg #iagreewithnick
by Stephen Tall on April 16, 2010
Here are four approving sleb tweets spotted during the course of the debate …
John Cleese (comedy god)
Well, well, well. First leaders debate, and LibDems do so well. Good
luck to them.
Phillip Schofield (TV presenter)
It’ll be fascinating to see how that’s altered the polls. I’m thinking Mr Clegg hasn’t done himself any harm tonight #leadersdebate
Graham Linehan (writer, [...]
Practice makes perfect for Nick Clegg – what I wrote for the Grauniad
by Stephen Tall on April 17, 2010
I’ve a short article over at The Guardian’s Comment Is Free website giving my post-debate analysis. It was originally written about an hour after the debate concluded (immediately after I’d written up my Lib Dem Voice verdict – oddly, I (…)
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