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Mum’s the word when it comes to who’ll win

We’ve seen Samantha Cameron in a field painting watercolours, Miriam Clegg building a dry stone wall and Sarah Brown padding barefoot round a Hindu temple.

So what? The obsessive focus on the leaders’ wives cannot mask the conspicuous absence of women from the 2010 General Election campaign.