Miliband wrong footed Cameron on hacking in the way Cameron outwitted Brown on MPs expenses.
Today's clones of Baldwin and MacDonald are not just David Cameron and Gordon Brown.
Moreover, the campaign will probably remind voters that their choice is ultimately between Mr Cameron and Mr Brown.
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But Conservative leader David Cameron said Mr Brown and his critics were locked in "a slow dance of political death".
Mr Cameron also accused Gordon Brown of running a "top down state control" of "telling people what to do".
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Mr Cameron also pressed Mr Brown on when an announcement might be expected from US President Barack Obama on the deployment of more US troops to Afghanistan.
"In the coming year we will see another challenge which Brown, Cameron and Clegg have all seen fit to ignore - the very strong likelihood of vast increases in consumer prices, " he said.
Opposition leader David Cameron of the Conservative Party challenged Brown Wednesday to explain why he was sending 500 troops rather than the 2, 000 which Cameron said military commanders wanted.
Earlier, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and the town's MP James Gray all condemned the group's plans.
"Gordon Brown and David Cameron are like two dogs fighting over the wrong bone, " he said.
Mr Cameron's predecessor Gordon Brown met Warner for face-to-face talks during a visit to Trinidad last year.
For decades, both right and left ignored co-ops (though both Gordon Brown and David Cameron have recently endorsed the ideal).
Mr Cameron tried to embarrass Mr Brown over his tense relationship with Mr Darling in the past but did not quite make the case that it mattered for the present.
In April a YouGov poll showed that a third of voters trusted no politician to tell the truth (Mr Brown and Mr Cameron were trusted by only 12% and 21%, respectively, of respondents).
Mr Salmond said he had met Mr Murdoch senior "five times in five years" which he believed was "pretty reasonable" and "isn't in the same league as Mr Blair, Mr Brown or Mr Cameron".
Both Mr Brown and Mr Cameron hope that by making enthusiastic noises about constitutional reform they will win over the liberal chattering classes, who have never cared much for the Tories and have drifted away from Labour since 1997.
Still, in an opinion poll by ComRes done just after the debate, he was rated the winner by 43%. 26% backed Mr Cameron, who edged out Mr Brown.
Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie called on Mr Salmond to abandon the politics of "gripe and grievance" and forge a better working relationship with David Cameron than he had with Gordon Brown.
Mr Brown and Conservative leader David Cameron clashed over the reasons behind it.
He is also slated to meet British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and opposition leader David Cameron in London later Friday.
In practical terms, Mr Brown said little that David Cameron, the Tory leader, could not have espoused, had he dared to.
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Mr Cameron's letter comes as Mr Brown refuses to dampen speculation of a snap poll as the deadline for an early November election approaches.
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We should never forget that Cameron and Osborne inherited from Blair, Brown and Balls a catastrophe, and they deserve sympathy in their struggle to rescue us from it.
The two men most likely to succeed Blair - Chancellor Gordon Brown and Tory leader David Cameron - will be more similar to French President Jacques Chirac than to Blair in their attitudes toward Israel and the US. This is the case first and foremost because that is what the British people expect of them.
Worcestershire old boy Davies was caught at mid-off and then Hamilton-Brown was well taken by James Cameron at deep extra cover.
At the Lib Dem conference a week earlier, leader Sir Menzies Campbell said he aimed to "rattle the cage" of British politics and smash the "cosy consensus" between Labour under Mr Brown and the Conservatives under Mr Cameron.
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He also claimed Mr Blair had told him Gordon Brown could not beat Tory leader David Cameron in an election.
Ever since Mr Brown had backed Mr Blair, Mr Cameron asserted, the former prime minister's campaign had been in "freefall".
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