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Beaten Beaker might take a Tory with him

WITH a scant week to go until polling day all the parties seem to have belatedly realised that it is time to bring out the big guns and, in at least one case, a stiletto.

Cameron announced yesterday that it was “time to throw caution to the wind.”

Which, ironically, is what got them into this mess in the first place.Someone who seems to have taken his advice to heart however was Lib Dem Treasury wonk Danny Alexander, known for his likeness to muppet Beaker.

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