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Business Secretary Lord Mandelson gives an insight into Gordon Brown's thinking ahead of the debate. The PM regards David Cameron as clever "but just sometimes finds him a bit trivial and a bit glib", the peer reveals. Mr Brown has to make sure he doesn't get too angry, Lord Mandelson tells journalists on Labour's battlebus. Labour election co-ordinator Douglas Alexander likens David Cameron to Richard Nixon, who lost the 1960 US presidential election following the first-ever televised debate. The Tory leader's invoking of the "Great Ignored" is like Nixon's claim to be defending the "Silent Majority", he adds.
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