Tomorrow’s Chancellor’s debate is going to be one of the key set pieces of the campaign. Labour are convinced that George Osborne is the weak link in the Tory campaign and their attempt to target him will be turned up another notch if he turns in a disappointing performance. Vince Cable will see this as a chance to show that he’s the best potential Chancellor, although I hear that Cable’s keenness to get his hands on a Red Box is causing tensions within the Lib Dems.
Osbrone might be the man with the most to lose but he is also the man with the most to gain. Osborne’s stock is undervalued at the moment, people are ignoring that he has won the argument on debt and that he was the man who forced Brown to call off the election that never was.
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