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The exercise of power - or PR? The exercise of power - or PR?
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Just thought it might be useful to give you a bit of detail on what to expect in the TV debates. Each will be 90 minutes long, half of that on the theme of the night - tomorrow's is domestic affairs - the rest on any topic. Each leader gets a one-minute opening statement and a 90-second closing one. The audiences will be picked by pollsters ICM to ensure a good mix of age, gender, ethnicity and so on. "It's a bit like political Wag-ery isn't it?" independent candidate for Luton South and TV personality Esther Rantzen said today. She was talking about interest in the party leaders' wives. "It seems to me to be completely irrelevant," she added.
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