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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.

Wales Live is to broadcast from Coleg Cambria's Deeside sixth form campus in Connah's Quay on Wednesday night ahead of next week's Assembly by-election.

Welsh Labour candidate Jack Sargeant has declined to take part in a BBC Wales debate ahead of the Alyn and Deeside Welsh Assembly by-election.

Previous research into ‘dual screening,’ when individuals switch between broadcast media and social media and provide commentary during media events, has suggested that this ‘viewertariat’ is typically a small but vocal minority (Anstead & O’Loughlin, 2011; Vaccari et al, 2015) . My aim here is to