Labour try to schedule TV debates but Cameron is “still running scared”

It’s said that the Labour leadership are trying to kickstart discussions about television debates in the run-up to the general election. But they’re being held up by David Cameron.

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The Mirror have reported that Cameron is holding up talks by refusing to set a date for a meeting between the political parties and the broadcasters.

Michael Dugher, who’s in charge of negotiating the television debates for Labour, said:

“For all his phoney bravado, David Cameron is still running scared of the TV debates. If he doesn’t name his negotiating team and set a date for negotiations, why wouldn’t the broadcasters sit down with Labour and Lib Dems and start the negotiations without the Tories.

The TV debates belong to the public, not the prime minister, and Cameron’s chickening out of the debates is just further evidence that he has no answers to the big challenges we face as a country like saving our NHS or tackling the cost-of-living crisis”.

Another Labour source told the Mirror: “The truth is that David Cameron doesn’t want these TV debates and is doing everything he can to avoid them.”

The bad news for Cameron is that he can’t dodge them forever… 

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