What if the debates had not been held in the 2010 UK election? 2010 seems to have been the perfect storm where all 3 leaders saw it was in their interest to have a debate, yet it could easily have ended up with Brown deciding he would do badly in a debate or David Cameron deciding not to risk his poll lead. So, what if no debates had been held? How would the election go in their absence? I've seen on this site no debates used as the PoD for both a Labour win or a Conservative majority. What do you think the outcome would be? IMO, the most likely outcome would be something like this;
2010 UK election
David Cameron-Conservative: 317+107 38.7%
Gordon Brown-Labour: 262-87 31.0%
Nick Clegg-LibDem: 43-19 20.6%
650 seats
326 for majority
However, a range of outcomes are possible. What would be the effect on the UK of the above results in the 2010 election(yes, I noticed the similarity to 2017)? Or of the other possible outcomes? Thoughts?