PRIME Minister David Cameron has said his 11-year-old daughter Nancy would “thrash” his Labour party rival in Witney, Duncan Enright, in a pre-General Election bake off.

The Witney MP made the comment in response to a tongue-in-cheek challenge from Labour party candidate Mr Enright, poking fun at his reported refusal to agree to a televised election debate.

The Labour candidate invited Mr Cameron to take part in a bake-off competition after the PM had initially declined taking part in the TV debates.

Mr Cameron said: “My daughter Nancy would thrash him in a bake-off. She’s the baker in our family.”

Mr Enright fired the starting pistol on the culinary challenge, which apes the hit television show The Great British Bake Off, by retweeting a joke article posted on news satire website News Thump, which claimed Mr Cameron believes all television debates should include a bake off.

Mr Enright said: “Mr Cameron seems to be doing everything he can to avoid hustings.

“I retweeted this tongue-in-cheek to remind him that he has always done hustings in previous elections and we’re expecting him to do that again this time. "

He added: “I would suggest we get in Great British Bake Off presenters Mel and Sue and they could do the judging.

“There’s no way David Cameron can get out of this. He is between a rock cake and a hard place.

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“He’s been in power for five years and everybody’s got less dough so he needs to do something about it.

“His government’s following the wrong recipe and I want to put it right.”

Mr Enright said he would combine the bake-off with a charity event at Witney Methodist Church for the Witney Dinner Time group, which aims to help people share hot meals as a community.

On a serious note, he said Mr Cameron needed to address key issues such as a growing gap between rich and poor, overcrowded hospitals and traffic congestion on the A40.

Mr Cameron initially declined to sign up to proposals for a television debate because the Green Party was excluded from them.

But in a renewed offer, television broadcasters have now proposed two debates involving all seven major parties.

Natasha Whitmill, at Mr Cameron’s House of Commons office, said he had not received a formal invite for a bake-off but added: “David usually takes part in a constituency hustings and expects to do so again this year.”

Ukip candidate Simon Strutt said he would be more than happy to take part in a bake-off with Mr Cameron but not with his daughter.

He said he would prefer a savoury rather than sweet cook off and challenged Mr Cameron to a three-mile run around the constituency.

Lib Dem candidate Andy Graham said he believed Mr Cameron should agree to a series of television debates involving all parties.

Green Party candidate Stuart MacDonald was unavailable for comment.

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