Well the interviews at least.

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I think Ed will be perceived to be the winner from tonight’s events, because the old maxim of success equals performance minus expectation, and the expecation for Ed is probably lower than it is for David Cameron, especially after David Cameron’s successful performance at PMQs yesterday.

Will one or both of them have a surprise in store?

I expect the other  parties will say they Cameron and Miliband were losers, but I wonder what the reaction will be to Nigel Farage attending the event, he may be in the audience section.

I think this merely the hors d’oeuvre for next week’s seven way debate.

Dave is up first

As I understand it, there’s going to be at Guardian/ICM poll on Dave and Ed after 22:30, but YouGov aren’t doing one for the following reason.

@lewis_baston one of the reasons we're not doing an instant poll. Also Mili has adv. going last for instant reax – X factor tells us this

— L Janta-Lipinski (@jantalipinski) March 26, 2015

@NCPoliticsUK @jantalipinski @lewis_baston people prefer what they just heard

— Keiran Pedley (@keiranpedley) March 26, 2015

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