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“COWARDLY” Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour’s Ed Miliband clashed across the Commons dispatch box yesterday over the shape of pre-election TV leadership debates.
Opposition MPs launched a barrage of clucking noises after the Tory top cat refused to commit to the on-air challenge.
Reminding the PM of his own words, Mr Miliband said: “In May 2010 talking about the TV debates a party leader said, and I quote: ‘It would have been feeble to find some excuse to back out. So I thought we’ve got to stick at this, we’ve got to do it.’
As Scotland heads to the polls, the main parties offer variations on the same script, says MATT KERR
As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership
While Spode quit politics after inheriting an earldom, Farage combines MP duties with selling columns, gin, and even video messages — proving reality produces more shameless characters than PG Wodehouse imagined, writes STEPHEN ARNELL