ELECTION 2010 WEEK THREE

摘要

"What a difference a debate makes." These were the words of one of Building's floating voters after the first of the leaders' clashes. He was the same voter who told us last week that he would not vote Lib Dem as Nick Clegg had the leadership skills of a blancmange. This week? He is torn between Labour and Lib Dem, writes Emily Wright.rnIt is telling that Clegg's greatest competition for the media's attention over the last week came from the EyjafjallajoekulI volcano rather than his rivals. Some argued that the surge of popularity was caused by hype and the fact that he had a clean slate, never having started a war, overseen the collapse of capitalism, reintroduced the poll tax (or, truth be told, done anything else of much interest).