article_snippet: Nick Clegg launched a bizarre class-war attack on David Cameron yesterday as plans for election TV debates descended into acrimony and farce.
article_snippet: Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said that Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg was willing to take the PM's place in the one-on-one debate with Labour leader Ed Miliband if David Cameron refused to turn up for the clash, scheduled to be shown on Sky News and Channel 4 on April 30 - exactly a week before the May 7 election.
article_snippet: Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg was accused of treating the public like Downton Abbey's Lord Grantham by telling TV bosses how the debates are going to happen .
article_snippet: Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg was 'bemused by the lofty pomposity of the Conservatives' adding: 'the Conservatives''re behaving as if the Conservatives''re ordering a drink in the drawing room of Downton Abbey's. '
article_snippet: Labour leader Ed Miliband said Labour leader Ed Miliband was 'bemused by the lofty pomposity of the Conservatives adding: 'the Conservatives're behaving as if the Conservatives're ordering a drink in the drawing room of Downton Abbey' The Electoral Reform Society said The Electoral Reform Society would be a 'national embarrassment' if the debates did not go ahead.
highlights_snippet: Nick Clegg said Nick Clegg was 'bemused' by 'lofty pomposity of the Conservatives'
  Ed Miliband said that the Prime Minister was 'cowering from the public' 