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Reply With QuoteDavid Cameron 'edges final TV debate'
Friday, April 30 2010,
By Andrew Laughlin,
Conservative leader David Cameron has been named the narrow winner of last night's final prime ministerial debate on BBC One.
According to a YouGov poll for The Sun, Cameron gained a decisive triumph, with 41% of respondents indicating that he performed best, compared to 32% for Nick Clegg and 25% for Gordon Brown.
However, a ComRes poll of 2,372 adults for ITV News suggested a much closer verdict, with Cameron scraping a marginal win at 35%, ahead of 33% for Clegg and Brown in last again with 26%.
The ComRes survey also indicated that the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats are tied on 36% in terms of people's voting intentions, with Labour trailing on 24%.
A Guardian/ICM poll of 510 adults indicated that 35% of respondents felt Cameron won the debate, compared to Brown with 29% and Clegg with 27%.
The final leaders' debate pulled in a live audience of 8.4 million viewers last night across BBC One, BBC HD, the BBC News channel and Sky News, representing a 32.4% audience share.
The figure was double the viewers for Sky's debate on April 22, but lower than the 10.3m viewing peak for ITV1's first debate earlier in the month.
Speaking on the campaign trail today, Brown said that the televised debates are now over and it's time for people to make their minds up about who is best placed to run the country.
"The time for debates is finished, the time for decision has begun," he told supporters in central England.
"We will continue to fight for the future of this country until the very last second of this election campaign."
