Thursday 15 April 2010

Debates I'd have liked to have seen

As this evening's first ever live TV debate approaches, former Tory leader William Hague said he would have loved the opportunity of a leaders’ debate with Tony Blair before the 2001 election.
He said he asked Tony Blair to take part in this in 2001 and it was agreed in principle - but then Alastair Campbell made sure that it was never negotiated. He said: "It was like trying to nail jelly to a wall trying to get them to agree to it."
Blair versus Hague would have been a bit of a damp squib, might I suggest. But there's a fair few debates between previous party leaders which would have been worth missing Coronation Street for. My top five: 1987 Thatcher v Kinnock, 1970 Heath v Wilson, 1950 Attlee v Churchill, 1868 Gladstone v Disraeli, 1830 Duke of Wellington v Marquess of Lansdowne. Although I'm kind of guessing on that last one.

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