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In truth it was fairly sensible from Cameron. He might not have lit up the debate but he came through it unscathed and the election is still far enough away now that by May 7 this debate and the memory of it won't impact that much on voters in their view of him. That's about as good as any PM can hope for in a debate like this unless their five years in office have been ones of unqualified success.