Labour accused top Tories yesterday of sabotaging cross-party talks over live TV leaders’ debates as PM David Cameron desperately attempts to escape a showdown with Ed Miliband.
A senior Labour MP revealed details of a secret Tory campaign to wreck talks yesterday as Mr Cameron was caught in a flap over the issue at Prime Minister’s questions.
Broadcasters have already named April 30 — exactly a week before Britain goes to the polls — as the date for a head-to-head.
As Scotland heads to the polls, the main parties offer variations on the same script, says MATT KERR
BEN CHACKO says in different ways, the centenary of the General Strike and that of Fidel Castro’s birth point to priority tasks for the British left in the coming year
As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership


