PM's TV absence 'unacceptable' - but why Farage and not Green leader?

Miliband, Clegg and Farage find an issue they’re agreed on: but shouldn't they be backing Natalie?

The Mole

EDITOR'S UPDATE, 12.20pm, Wed 14 Jan: Since this article was posted, Green Party leader Natalie Bennett has written to Miliband, Clegg and Farage urging them to contact the broadcasters to say they are open to the Greens being included in the TV debates. If they did so, she argues, "it would be hard for the Prime Minister to raise any new concerns, and this therefore gives the best chance of ensuring that the proposed leaders' debates can go ahead".

Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage are ganging up on the Prime Minister, saying it would be "unacceptable" for him to refuse to appear in the party leaders’ TV debates before the general election. If he’s still refusing to join in when the debates take place in April, an “empty podium” should be provided in case he has “a last-minute change of heart”.

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