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On Thursday, Labour leader Mr Corbyn challenged the PM to a one-on-one debate, while Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson said she should take part in a three-headed encounter with the two leaders.

Boris Johnson is in negotiations to take part in three television debates for the looming general election, but none of them are expected to involve the SNP or the Liberal Democrats.

However, with both the Conservatives and Labour preferring to see their leaders face off against each other, Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson could be squeezed out.

MPs hear praise for Sky News' campaign to establish an independent commission to oversee debates before UK elections. The government has been challenged to respond to the "massive" level of public support for TV election debates and make them compulsory. Conservative MP Peter Bone, who hailed Sky

Supporters and opponents give their views in a debate, sparked by a Sky News petition that gained more than 140,000 signatures.

Ever since our successful campaign for leaders debates in 2010, we have argued that they are an important public service which only TV can provide and that the television companies should co-operate to bring them about.

There is no fundamental reason why television leaders' debates should not now be an utterly normal feature of elections and referendums going forward.

And with Prime Minister’s Questions a weekly shouting match where answers bear little relation to the issue supposedly being considered, I fully support the independent leader’s debate commission being proposed by Sky News anchor Adam Boulton to ensure that there’s clarity in advance over election

An independent body should be set up to run television general election debates, Sky News has urged, amid fears that broadcasters could be cut out of the process entirely in the event of a snap post-Brexit vote.