ED MILIBAND will volunteer for regular public grillings if he is elected Prime Minister, he said yesterday.

Speaking on BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show, Mr Miliband said he would stage a parallel event to Prime Minister’s questions on Wednesday afternoons but with ordinary citizens taking potshots.

“What we need is a public question time, where regularly the Prime Minister submits himself or herself to questioning from members of the public in the Palace of Westminster, on Wednesdays,” Mr Miliband told the programme.

“I want to let the public into our politics.”

He said he was in discussions about the logistics of the sessions with Commons Speaker John Bercow.

Public questions would take place at least fortnightly, with questions chosen to make up a representative sample of the population.

The move comes after the opposition leader used the launch of his “summer offensive” to say Britain’s political culture had become too focused on image.

He told an audience at the Royal Institute of British Architects on Friday that he was poised to lose the election if it was played out merely on photo-ops and soundbites.

Instead, he urged the public to let him pitch “big ideas.”

Responding to the announcement, a spokeswoman for Tory PM David Cameron said: “The Prime Minister is open to new ways of engaging with the public.

“He already holds regular PM Directs, where he takes questions from members of the public in towns and cities across the country.”