David Cameron asked if Miliband attacks make Conservatives look like ‘arrogant public school boys’

Michael Crick has been speaking to the prime minister on his journey back from Devon. He asked him whether he and his party looked like “arrogant public school bullies” over recent personal attacks on the Labour leader.

Mr Cameron responded: “For heaven’s sake, Michael … I haven’t met anyone who takes that view.”

“Frankly, the point about Ed Miliband – really to say he stabbed his brother in the back is hardly adding to the political lexicon of Britain. It is a point that has been made by almost everybody else including many people in the Labour party.”

Asked if he thought Mr Miliband was a “decent man”, (the Labour leader described Michael Fallon as a decent man even though he had called him a backstabber) the PM replied: “I don’t really know Ed Miliband that well. All I would say is that his political ideas are the wrong ideas.

“All the things we did to get the country back on track … every single dot and comma he opposed. “This isn’t an election about whether he is decent chap or not. The question is who has got the right team and the right ideas to take the country forward?”