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The Labour party has quite expectedly started calling Prime Minister David Cameron a coward for changing the schedule and skipping a head-to-head debate with Ed Miliband. According to a statement issued by the broadcasters on Saturday, the prime minister and the Labour leader have finally agreed to participate in a question-and-answer programme in the runup to the election, but will not debate head-to-head as originally proposed.
The broadcasters revealed that the program is set to be aired on Thursday 26 March by both Sky News and Channel 4 and will be presented by Kay Burley and Jeremy Paxman. Quite noticeably, both the prime minister and the Labour leader will be interviewed separately before facing questions from a live studio audience. In addition to that, the broadcasters added on Saturday that Cameron, Miliband and Nick Clegg will also take part in a special edition of Question Time on BBC1 on 30 April, presented by David Dimbleby, and the three leaders will answer questions separately from a studio audience rather than debating directly.
A Labour Party spokesman has alleged that “after weeks of pressure from the Conservative party, Channel 4 and Sky have indicated to us that they are unwilling to stick to their commitment of 6 March to proceed with the head-to-head debate programme if David Cameron refused to take part.” It was stated that “we have therefore, and with great reluctance, agreed to a change in the format of the programme on 30 April. David Cameron and Ed Miliband will now attend the same programme and take the same questions from the same audience. But due to the cowardice of David Cameron the two leaders will not be on stage at the same time to debate each other.”
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