Sebastian Payne

Watch: Green leader Natalie Bennett backs Cameron on TV debates

What are you afraid of boys? The Green Party posed this question on Westminster’s College Green this morning as they launched a new poster campaign (driven around on pedal bikes, natch) calling for the Greens to be involved in the TV leaders debates. Leader Natalie Bennett also announced that the party’s membership is up to 44,175 today — 52,000 including Scotland.

I asked Bennett how she feels about being used by the Prime Minister for his own political gains. She doesn’t seem to mind too much:

‘Mr Cameron is certainly speaking for his own political advantage – but he’s only able to do that because it’s a fair and responsible thing to say. If you look at the fact there’s been a whole slew of polls over the past week, all of which show that the public should be invited to the debates.’

And how many of her new members does Bennett attribute to the furore over the debates?

‘There’s a broad range of reasons of joining – a lot of them have been people who have been thinking of joining for a while and this has just been the impetus for pushing them over the line…quite a few of them are people who are saying since the rise of Ukip, we want to see the anti-Ukip force get stronger.

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