The UKIP leader prepared for the event by swearing off alcohol for a week.
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Nigel Farage told an audience member to “calm down” when she asked him a question about immigration during a debate on the EU Referendum.
Mr Cameron said there were “good and bad ways” to handle immigration but he didn’t back a “Little England” stance.
But he was forced to defend his comments made at the weekend when he suggested that the safety of women was an issue in the referendum campaign, pointing to the reports of sexual assaults in Cologne earlier this year.
Giving evidence to the Commons Home Affairs Committee, the archbishop said that in the past, comments like those by Mr Farage – who described the threat to British women of Cologne-style attacks as the “nuclear bomb” in the referendum campaign – had themselves led to violence.
The attack ad claims that Farage is “a spokesman for the Leave campaign”, even though the official Vote Leave camp is led by Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Labour’s Gisela Stuart. We have just had a Queen’s Speech with a whole set of proposals and measures, some of which you might agree with and some of which you might disagree with, but they are British proposals for the British people from a British government.
“If we have an Australian-style points system rather than an open door to 500 million people then it will be better for black people coming into Britain who now find it very hard because we have this open door”.
“There is big support for this amongst ethnic minorities who know this is our only chance to get a grip on this issue”.
One man told Mr Cameron that his local area was a “no-go zone” because of migration levels and he could not get on the housing ladder.
“When I first suggested we should have an Australian-style points system, you’d think I’d said something awful”.
The prime minister used the clash to frame the poll as a choice between a broad-based cross-party coalition “fighting for a Great Britain in the EU” and “Nigel Farage’s Little England option”.
Claiming the vote was not about his future, he said he would accept the people’s instructions.
In a ferocious attack, Mr Cameron listed key Vote Leave messages promoted by his fellow Conservatives as “complete untruths”.
“The Prime Minister says we need a proper debate about the facts, but he is too chicken to take on anyone from the Vote Leave campaign head-to-head”, he said.
He rejected suggestions that the United Kingdom would be bullied by other European Union countries if it left, saying: “We’re British, we’re better than that”.
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Mr Farage is a veteran of high-profile TV showdowns, having debated with former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg ahead of the European elections in 2014 and taken part in the leaders’ debate during last year’s general election.
