So how are they doing?
An interesting pitch there. Ed Miliband keeps it professional sticking to his party lines and staring right down the camera to the people at home, giving the audience in Westminster short shrift. It’s the people on the sofa he wants to reach.
Nigel Farage meanwhile looks comfortable in his openings. He looks like he enjoys being the odd one out – as he says he is pitching himself as the man who will say what people are thinking at home but no one is saying on screen.
Nicola Sturgeon unabashedly made her pitch for the SNP as a possible coaliton partnet – something she has been repeating in the debate – she says she wants to build bridges with other parties and crucially, she says that her party has an interest outside of Scotland in bringing fair policies to all people. This is a pitch to all those people on the Labour left who want their party to be more like Ms Sturgeon’s party and all those people who thought she was the clear winner in the last debates.
Leanne Wood makes a similar pitch. The smaller parties are making it clear they will work with Government, but on their terms.