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Debate week: What Gordon Brown must do

Finally accept Cameron is formidable opponent, and turn on him

By James Macintyre

So it’s the week of the first general election debate, which kicks off on Thursday on ITV. Surreally but strangely appropriately, the first of three debates will begin with a statement by Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, in what is the stuff of dreams for the third most popular party in the UK.

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