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| Cameron v Miliband: everything you need to know about the leaders' interviews | Cameron v Miliband: everything you need to know about the leaders' interviews |
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| If you didn’t watch Thursday night’s debate-that-wasn’t-a-debate – and even if you did – here’s everything you need to know about the double grilling by Jeremy Paxman of David Cameron and Ed Miliband. | |
| How they scored | How they scored |
| In the polls immediately after the interviews, produced jointly by Sky News and Channel 4, David Cameron came out on top. | In the polls immediately after the interviews, produced jointly by Sky News and Channel 4, David Cameron came out on top. |
| A Guardian/ICM poll of 1,123 viewers taken directly after the questions to both men gave the prime minister an eight-point advantage, by 54% to 46%. | A Guardian/ICM poll of 1,123 viewers taken directly after the questions to both men gave the prime minister an eight-point advantage, by 54% to 46%. |
| A YouGov app poll for the Times put things rather closer, with 51% saying Cameron was the winner, against 49% for Ed Miliband. | A YouGov app poll for the Times put things rather closer, with 51% saying Cameron was the winner, against 49% for Ed Miliband. |
| Twitter came up with a different verdict again, with Miliband attracting more positive reactions – but with only a fraction of the tweets compared to those about Cameron: | |
| How did Twitter react last night? Great analysis by @carljackmiller & co. Miliband clearly won but 1/4 as many tweets pic.twitter.com/bZ3lVI4UX8 | How did Twitter react last night? Great analysis by @carljackmiller & co. Miliband clearly won but 1/4 as many tweets pic.twitter.com/bZ3lVI4UX8 |
| Guardian commentators’ verdicts: in a word | Guardian commentators’ verdicts: in a word |
| If you’d like to read more than just one word about the combatants, you can see the full verdicts here. | If you’d like to read more than just one word about the combatants, you can see the full verdicts here. |
| David Cameron: what we found out | David Cameron: what we found out |
| Ed Miliband: what we found out | Ed Miliband: what we found out |
| The #notadebate in tweets | The #notadebate in tweets |
| Because we don’t know anything until we know what Twitter thinks. | Because we don’t know anything until we know what Twitter thinks. |
| Labour probably won’t mind this one | Labour probably won’t mind this one |
| It's the phil Collins mistake! vote labour, as often as possible pic.twitter.com/cbj7gCrTyJ | It's the phil Collins mistake! vote labour, as often as possible pic.twitter.com/cbj7gCrTyJ |
| This one’s a bit more uncomfortable for Miliband: | This one’s a bit more uncomfortable for Miliband: |
| Thanks for 2 mentions, Ed Miliband. Only met once for all of 2 minutes when you embarrassed me with over the top flattery. | Thanks for 2 mentions, Ed Miliband. Only met once for all of 2 minutes when you embarrassed me with over the top flattery. |
| And this one will have ruined Ed’s night: | And this one will have ruined Ed’s night: |
| Farage tells me: "I might vote Labour." | Farage tells me: "I might vote Labour." |
| The Ukip leader said he would rate Miliband as seven out of 10, with Cameron on a measly four. | The Ukip leader said he would rate Miliband as seven out of 10, with Cameron on a measly four. |
| The Paxman verdict | The Paxman verdict |
| How the two leaders would cope with the onslaught from a Paxman who’d been out of the cut-and-thrust of political interviewing for a while was always – in the absence of a genuine head-to-head between Cameron and Miliband – going to be the real test. | How the two leaders would cope with the onslaught from a Paxman who’d been out of the cut-and-thrust of political interviewing for a while was always – in the absence of a genuine head-to-head between Cameron and Miliband – going to be the real test. |
| “Cameron’s most uncomfortable 20 minutes in an interview for ages,” was my colleague Andrew Sparrow’s analysis last night. | “Cameron’s most uncomfortable 20 minutes in an interview for ages,” was my colleague Andrew Sparrow’s analysis last night. |
| The Labour leader was generally thought to have put up a punchy defence. But for Stuart Heritage, there was one runaway winner: | The Labour leader was generally thought to have put up a punchy defence. But for Stuart Heritage, there was one runaway winner: |
| If the people of Britain were allowed to go to the polls immediately after Cameron & Miliband: the Battle for Number 10, there’d a landslide. And our new prime minister would be Jeremy Paxman. | If the people of Britain were allowed to go to the polls immediately after Cameron & Miliband: the Battle for Number 10, there’d a landslide. And our new prime minister would be Jeremy Paxman. |
| This was a man who’d clearly been straining at the leash since he left Newsnight; a man who’d spent too many months trapped indoors, fruitlessly barking questions at potplants. | This was a man who’d clearly been straining at the leash since he left Newsnight; a man who’d spent too many months trapped indoors, fruitlessly barking questions at potplants. |
| John Crace agreed, pointing out: “If Paxo was a closet Tory, he was keeping it well hidden”: | John Crace agreed, pointing out: “If Paxo was a closet Tory, he was keeping it well hidden”: |
| Don’t Jeremy me,’ Jeremy salivated, while giving his trademark thousand-yard death stare. God, he had missed this. So had we. | Don’t Jeremy me,’ Jeremy salivated, while giving his trademark thousand-yard death stare. God, he had missed this. So had we. |
| ‘Could you live on a zero-hours contract?’ Paxman demanded. ‘That’s not the question,’ Dave simpered. It was, though, and Paxman asked it again. And again. | ‘Could you live on a zero-hours contract?’ Paxman demanded. ‘That’s not the question,’ Dave simpered. It was, though, and Paxman asked it again. And again. |
| By the end, Dave couldn’t even remember his own name, let alone any of the key economic statistics. Did he know how much the country was borrowing? ‘No, but I’m sure you will tell me, Daddy,’ Dave mumbled. | By the end, Dave couldn’t even remember his own name, let alone any of the key economic statistics. Did he know how much the country was borrowing? ‘No, but I’m sure you will tell me, Daddy,’ Dave mumbled. |
| ‘I don’t want to sound rude,’ Paxo lied. ‘You’ve failed.’ It was all Dave could do to stop himself from nodding. | ‘I don’t want to sound rude,’ Paxo lied. ‘You’ve failed.’ It was all Dave could do to stop himself from nodding. |
| Question of the night | Question of the night |
| “Are you OK, Ed?” (Spoiler alert: he’s OK. They’re both OK. Everyone is OK.) |
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