“DO I look like I am feeling the pressure?”

That is how a confident David Cameron brushed aside the idea he might be feeling tense ahead of the biggest week of his life.

With just days to go before he finds out whether its Downing Street or the doldrums, he added: “The stakes are quite high, you could say that.”

TheTory candidate for Witney and party leader spoke to the Oxford Mail on the campaign trail in Woodstock on Saturday morning as he geared up for the last week of the election campaign.

Asked how he was approaching the final phase of his bid to become Prime Minister, he replied: “I am feeling great. I have bags of energy. I am raring to go and will give everything I’ve got.”

Dressed in a casual blue sweater and dark trousers, he chatted to voters and stallholders at the town’s farmers’ market before tucking into a Banbury cake.

But he did return home with at least one of his five-a-day after picking up two bunches of purple sprouting broccoli at the greengrocers.

The polls continue to predict a close result on May 6, and Mr Cameron was clear on what was needed to secure a Conservative victory.

“We have to convince people we have the right ideas and the right leadership, and that we will take the tough decisions with compassion and great sensitivity,” he said.

But he kept his cards close to his chest on the issue of a hung Parliament and the possibility of a deal with the Liberal Democrats.

“All I am thinking of is how to secure victory,” he said.

“We need strong decisive leadership in these uncertain times.”

Chatting to families at the farmers’ market, he was asked if he was nervous by one girl and replied: “I was nervous about the TV debates but I am less nervous now. We have the momentum.”

Kaye Vickers, who runs Vickers Hotel and Restaurant in Market Place, spoke to Mr Cameron about the plight of small businesses in the town.

He told her: “We need to get people into the town shopping, eating and drinking.”