Nick Clegg’s first questions to Brown were on fuel bills: a social justice theme, and one which the Lib Dem spin doctors described as being closer to what the person in the street cares about, than Cameron’s ID card questions.
As far as the response from the press, it looked like a good performance (as aggregated on LibDemVoice). It was not, contra Tory blogger Iain Dale’s suggestion, a relinquishing of civil liberties issues, traditionally Lib Dem territory, to the Tories; it’s as silly to read too much into two questions as it is to ilsten to spin doctors.
What’s much more interesting is that both Brown and Cameron have now made overtures to the new Lib Dem leader. Both are keen to build bridges in case of a hung parliament scenario, as the BBC’s Nick Robinson points out. Cynical as their movies no doubt are, if this provides leverage for Clegg to press for electoral reform, it has to be a good thing.
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