With less than two weeks to go, the election campaign feels strangely flat and low-key, playing out, in fits and starts, in the background; passing most people by.

The election remains in deadlock, with Labour and the Conservatives within a fraction of a percentage point of each other, but neither with any momentum at all. Their vote has solidified, but it hasn't grown. The polls now find very little switching between Labour and Conservative, each with the backing of around a third of voters. The other third don't like either main party, but the working assumption remains that many of them will – grudgingly, unwillingly and probably resentfully – end up voting for whichever of the two parties they dislike, or fear, the least.