More

than three million people watched the BBC election Debate on Wednesday night — but how many of them managed to stay until the end?

It was torture. A shower of second- raters bellowing at each other while a partisan audience whooped and jeered.

These television set-pieces are given much more import than they deserve, particularly from the broadcasters themselves. The public aren’t much interested, and viewing figures have fallen each year since everyone ‘agreed with Nick’.

The Prime Minister did well to rise above the fray and stay away.

However, I am grateful for one thing. After all this time, it finally dawned on me who Jeremy Corbyn reminds me of: Albert Steptoe, the tatty curmudgeon of oil Drum Lane.

What would son Harold have said about his amorous motorcycling holiday in Seventies’ Germany with Diane Abbott?

eww, you dirty old man!