“COWARDLY” Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour’s Ed Miliband clashed across the Commons dispatch box yesterday over the shape of pre-election TV leadership debates.

Opposition MPs launched a barrage of clucking noises after the Tory top cat refused to commit to the on-air challenge.

Reminding the PM of his own words, Mr Miliband said: “In May 2010 talking about the TV debates a party leader said, and I quote: ‘It would have been feeble to find some excuse to back out. So I thought we’ve got to stick at this, we’ve got to do it.’