article_snippet: But the proposal was mocked by the former SNP leader Alex Salmond today.
article_snippet: What do you do when David Cameron doesn't turn up?
article_snippet: Shall we stick David Cameron in the clink, do we put David Cameron in Wandsworth [prison] or somewhere?' '
article_snippet: but it is wrong for the broadcasters and the British public to have governing parties use this kind of pressure in campaign periods'.
article_snippet: I think actually we ought to be ... getting out of Westminster, getting out of the TV studios ... talking to people on the campaign trail.'
article_snippet: The bottom line is - it is not too late for David Cameron to actually say ...
article_snippet: I think if somebody is saying I want to be prime minister, I want to be in Number 10 Downing Street, but by the way I'm not going to go out there and debate it, it's not acceptable. '
article_snippet: somebody should have the guts to go out there and say, this is what I have done since I have been prime minister and this is what I want to do next. '
article_snippet: The fact somebody won't do that shows that somebody is not prepared to justify what somebody has done over the last few years. '
article_snippet: Millions of people, more women than men, but lots of men as well, don't vote because Millions of people, more women than men, but lots of men as well don't think politicians are straight with politicians, politicians are not prepared to level with politicians and I'm afraid prime minister is proving prime minister a classic example of that.'