It is the first prime minister's questions of the year and Nick Clegg will be an anxious man this morning. It is his debut as Liberal Democrat leader and he will stand up in the chamber (an arena that disadvantages the third-party leader, anyway - no despatch box to lean against, heckling from two sides of the chamber, not just one) knowing that poor performances at PMQs contributed to Ming Campbell's being labelled a dud.
The prime minister may be feeling perkier. After a grim period before Christmas, his "don't-call-it-a-relaunch" has been going well enough and, as a keen student of American politics, he will be cheered by the reminder that the polls can get it wrong and that Dull Experience need not always lose out to Flash Novelty.
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