Quotes of the week: An Election 2010 special

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Clegg finally arrives, Cameron gets heated, Brown mentions a terrorist atrocity...

"Don't let them tell you that the only choice is between two old parties that have been playing pass the parcel with your government for 65 years now making the same old promises, breaking the same old promises." Nick Clegg apparently 'wins' the first televised leaders' debate "This is the defining year. Get the decisions right now and we can have secure jobs, standards of living rising and everybody better off. Get the decisions wrong now and we could have a double-dip recession." Gordon Brown does his best to come second...

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