article_snippet: Polling company ICM has chosen the 'politically-balanced' audience, with around 20 per cent said to be undecided voters.
article_snippet: The longer I've been in politics
article_snippet: The last time nobody knew who I was, so I had nothing to lose.
article_snippet: In a sense this time I dont have much to lose either, as everyone appears to have everyone mind made up one way or the other. '
article_snippet: I'm not going to triumph in these debates -
article_snippet: What I learnt about the debates with Ukip's Nigel Farage is you might marshal the best arguments
article_snippet: I've been in politics long enough to know politics not a beauty contest and it tends to be the case that newcomers or people not well known to the public tend to do best, so I enter with quite sober realistic expectations.
article_snippet: I'm not disillusioned, I think you just have to keep what debates can and cant do in perspective.'