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People Matthew Paris demonstrates all the reasons Charles Kennedy will be the best Prime Minister we never had:

"The Liberal Democrat leader was playing King of the Kids. Kennedy is a bright and likeable man and came across as such, but with this audience he was verging on the ingratiating and some of them (a minority) sensed this and bristled. Most, however, lapped him up; Kennedy played it for laughs, and got them. Anticipating the opinions and concerns which predominated among his listeners, he sidled up to them. ‘At least you knew where Maggie stood,’ he told them."

NB: The Lib Dems are gaining on the Conservatives in the polls.