Party leaders attack May and Corbyn for avoiding TV debate

The prime minister and leader of the opposition were loudly derided, as was the Ukip leader, Paul Nuttall, as ‘the PM’s spokesman’Party leaders rounded on Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn for shunning the first TV leaders’ debate of the election campaign, though Ukip’s leader, Paul Nuttall, was widely derided by other parties as “the prime minister’s spokesman”. Related: General election 2017: questions hang over May's manifesto costings – polit