As one observer noted barely 40 minutes into Thursday's leaders' debate:

This is actually a new ITV game show. At the end you have 1 minute to remember all the people Cameron has "met this week".

And as Channel 4 FactCheck has subsequently discovered, not all Cameron encounters check out.

Inevitably, we now have the Who has David Cameron been talking to? automatic anecdote-generator. Some more highlights below:

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