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OPINION: 3 Leaders back to back – and we lose. Badly.

By Martin Pantling | Fri 24th August 2007 - 9:27 pm

This recess period is a good chance for Liberal Democrat members, those in other parties and the general public to view the presentations and speeches made recently by all three party leaders, back to back.

BBC Parliament are showing Brown, Cameron and Campbell back-to-back as part of their rolling programme during the recess. This represents a good opportunity for us to take a deep breath and a step back, and to “see it as others do” – or might – not least as it rolls around at different times, on average three times every two days.

The coverage of Ming is not drawn from our finest hour. It was the post early-joining-the-Brown-Government-or-at-least-some-of them-thought-they-were moment ; the frustrated agony following the apparent shock approach to Ashdown; and Brown’s coronation and (actually fairly quiet) unveiling of a fairly astonishing Tory convert (they’re welcome to him.)

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