It is extraordinary that David Cameron has refused to debate Ed Miliband head-to-head.
You don’t need me to tell you that his gamesmanship around the debate proposals reveals so much about the man.
This decision alone should cost him the election. (Never mind what his government has done, or what it would do if – shudder – it were restored to Downing Street.)
But NOW Cameron is saying he is going to play dirty. He’s been advised not to get personal, but he’s not going to take that advice. “Because when it comes to who’s prime minister, the personal is national.”
Ed Miliband needs to be shot down, personally, in the national interest. I play the man, not the ball, in the national interest.
But a head-to-head debate? Between the two candidates for Prime Minister of Great Britain?
No national interest there.