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Slippery Theresa May scrapped an election campaign visit today as she continued to dodge TV debates.

The "cowardly" Prime Minister planned to give a stump speech in Norfolk but axed the trip at the last minute.

The plucky Mirror Chicken made the three-hour journey from its coop in the capital to East Anglia to ruffle some Tory feathers.

We wanted to press the party leader to take part in a live television showdown with her rivals.

But the PM failed to show in the seaside resort of Great Yarmouth.

Housewife and mum-of-two Maxine Jenkins, 45, on holiday from Basingstoke, Hants, said: “She should take part, she's got a voice about everything else.

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“It's a bit cowardly - 'chicken' is the word.

“Some people sit on the fence so TV debates could give them a bit of direction.”

Nurse Amy Brown, 29, of Great Yarmouth, said: “She should be taking part, but maybe she's said everything she needs to say.

“It might help people make up their minds before they vote, because lots of people would see a debate on the TV.”

Our chicken hunted high and low for the elusive PM.

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Was she lying on a towel on the golden sands, reading a book beneath the grey April clouds?

Was she perched in the back of a carriage, enjoying a ride along the prom pulled by a 16-hand horse?

Or had the notoriously serious Tory leader been tempted by the colourful bouncy castles, joining children enjoying the last of the Easter break?

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Maybe she was playing the penny slots at Britannia Pier, or taking a ride on the Spook Express at Joyland Fun Park?

She might even be sipping a gin and tonic in The Pier Tavern, taking a break from the grind of the campaign trail just two days in.

Alas, our feathered detective could not find this poultry excuse for a Prime Minister anywhere in town, not even on the Haven Bridge overlooking the River Yare docks.

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And so our chicken headed to the Norfolk Broads to see if she had boarded a Brexit boat for the day.

But there was no sign that Tricky Theresa had morphed into Maritime May.

A search of the cruisers moored in the clam waters at Acle Bridge failed to unearth the chicken-fearing PM.

Heather Stokes, 78, who runs the local coffee shop, wanted the Tory leader to join the television debates – on certain conditions.

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She said: “I believe she has done a good job up to now so she should have the courage to go and defend that on TV, as long as as there's none of this mud slinging.

“If they're going to have one of these debates where everybody just slights everybody else and not very much comes out then she should say no.

“I want a proper debate, not a slanging match. She should take part if it is a proper debate.”