1407: "This race is wide open," says Labour's election coordinator Douglas Alexander - and "it's open to the Labour Party to win", he adds. But standing alongside him, Conservative chairman Eric Pickles says he's feeling "slightly perky" after watching "a master class of smear and negative campaigning" from Gordon Brown during last night's debate.
1734: "Why did the PM not defend Labour's record?" asks Mehdi Hasan, in the HREF="http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/mehdi-hasan/2010/04/labour-record-brown-gore" ID="9999" STYLE="LINK_Inline">New Statesman. He says he waited in vain during the TV debate for Gordon Brown to list some of Labour's "proudest achievements" - "the minimum wage, paid holidays, international aid, lifting British children out of poverty, improving schools and hospitals, peace in Northern Ireland" - but he didn't. "It's not enough only attack your opponent - you have to point out what you've done and how you've helped people," he thinks.