Farage beats Clegg and boosts chances of joining 2015 debates

He may have been sweating - but he didn't 'look nuts' and he's staked his claim as UK's leading Eurosceptic

Farage Clegg debate
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AFTER 'Godzilla versus King Kong' in the great EU debate last night, there is one question that needs answering: did Nigel Farage do enough to win a place on the platform for the televised leaders’ debates at the next general election?

Farage, the anti-Europe leader of Ukip, was excluded from the televised debates last time. But his team are cock-a-hoop this morning, saying that the level of public support after the LBC debate will make it difficult to deny him a place with David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband in front of the cameras in 2015.

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