Polls give Dave and Ed a tie but Nicola nicks top spot

Meanwhile new YouGov poll gives Tories 37% - the vote share they achieved at the 2010 election

Columnist Don Brind

Their night out in Salford has left David Cameron and Ed Miliband without a hangover, Don Brind reports. They did all right in the post-debate polls.

There were four instant polls and in one Miliband is a point ahead of Cameron. In two others they are tied but in the fourth the standout performer was Nicola Sturgeon: her 28 per cent in the YouGov poll was the highest figure scored by any of the seven party leaders.

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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.