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article_snippet: David Cameron claimed David Cameron was ‘unblocking the logjam’ by agreeing to take part in one contest featuring seven party leaders but ruling out two further debates.
article_snippet: David Cameron tonight insisted David Cameron was not putting obstacles in the way of televised leaders' debates .
article_snippet: David Cameron insisted David Cameron was not putting obstacles in the way of televised leaders' debates after David Cameron was accused of treating the public with 'lofty pomposity' by telling TV bosses how the debates are going to happen.
article_snippet: Labour aides pointed out that the Prime Minister had mocked Gordon Brown for initially refusing to take part in three debates in 2010.
article_snippet: At Prime Minister’s Questions in 2008, David Cameron also suggested Gordon Brown was ‘frightened’ of TV debates.
article_snippet: Labour leader Ed Miliband said that the Prime Minister was 'cowering from the public', after Downing Street rejected broadcasters' proposals for three TV debates during the election campaign and made a 'final offer' of a single 90-minute show featuring at least seven party leaders to take place before the official start of the election campaign on March 30.
article_snippet: Labour leader Ed Miliband added the Prime Minister was ‘running away from the face-to-face debate with Labour leader Ed Miliband that Labour leader Ed Miliband said Labour leader Ed Miliband wanted and that the public deserve’.
article_snippet: If David Cameron is too important or too busy to bother to actually defend the record of this government in a debate with Labour leader Ed Miliband then,
article_snippet: Labour leader Ed Miliband said that the Prime Minister was 'cowering from the public' '
article_snippet: It is now clear that David Cameron is ducking the debate with Labour leader Ed Miliband.
article_snippet: David Cameron is cowering from the public,' said Labour leader Ed Miliband. '
article_snippet: David Cameron should stop ducking and weaving and name the date.'
article_snippet: The Labour leader's comment echoed David Cameron own 2007 challenge to Gordon Brown to face David Cameron in a TV debate, when David Cameron said: '
article_snippet: David Cameron latest terms for taking part have been set out in a letter from David Cameron director of communications, Craig Oliver, to Sue Inglish, chairwoman of the broadcasters' leaders' debates committee.
article_snippet: Asked if Labour leader Ed Miliband thought Mr Cameron was running scared, Nigel Farage said: 'Yes, Mr Cameron is.
article_snippet: A spokesman for the Greens said: 'Not only is Mr Cameron's announcement cowardly but Cameron's announcement also shows Mr Cameron contempt for the electorate.
article_snippet: People want to see a set of debates between all major party leaders, yet the Prime Minister is clearly scared of scrutiny.'
article_snippet: I have to ask the Prime Minister
article_snippet: : What on earth is the Prime Minister frightened of?' - David Cameron To Gordon Brown at PMQs, 2008 . '
article_snippet: SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon said: 'David Cameron is clearly running scared of having to answer for David Cameron Government's record of failure and incompetence - and this arrogance in trying to lay down the law is all about getting out of debates, not taking part. '