Unsurprisingly, David Cameron has this afternoon said he won’t take part in the TV election debates if the Greens are no included in one of the line-ups. Currently the proposal is for Cameron vs Miliband, then Cameron vs Miliband vs Clegg, then Cameron vs Miliband vs Clegg vs Farage. The Greens have been excluded, as have the SNP and Plaid Cymru.
This is the exchange between the Prime Minister and ITN’s Tom Bradby:
Me; ‘Time is running out; are you saying you are not going to go in as it stands unless at least the Greens are in?’ Him; ‘Correct.’
— tom bradby (@tombradby) January 8, 2015
Why is Cameron so anxious about the Greens all of a sudden? It’s not because he’s still hankering after the days when he pranced about with huskies and fancies a louder environmentalist voice on the TV.
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