TV watchers score Cameron the victor – but Labour are happy

Majority of those thinking of switching their vote after watching the show would swap to Miliband

Columnist Don Brind

The scores are in - and it appears David Cameron’s gamble in refusing a head-to-head debate with Ed Miliband has paid off, just. He emerged narrowly ahead after last night’s Channel 4/Sky event, according to an instant Guardian/ICM poll of 1,100 voters who watched ‘Cameron & Miliband Live: The Battle for Number 10’.

After each leader had been grilled by Jeremy Paxman and given comparatively easy questions by a studio audience, 54 per cent thought Cameron did better, against 46 per cent favouring Miliband, after excluding don’t knows.

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is a former BBC lobby correspondent and Labour press officer who is watching the polls for The Week in the run-up to the 2015 election.