Sentences with phrase «televised leadership debates»

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BBC Parliament would be a good choice, if it wasn't for that annoying balance requirement (how about arguing the other parties can also have their leadership election debates televised, they just have to hold a leadership competition...)

The format of the televised debates is quite challenging, as the leadership contenders have to pitch both to the party and to a fragmented electorate.

The four candidates for the Labour leadership faced questions from the public in the first televised debate between the would - be leaders of the opposition.

[10] Also in 2007, Cameron used the website to challenge Gordon Brown to a live televised political debate as he prepared to succeed Tony Blair as Prime Minister, arguing the format had proved useful for discussing «serious policy issues» during the 2005 Conservative leadership election.

She is insisting on the leadership candidates being «stress - tested» in a string of televised debates.

That was the question put to people in Nuneaton, the town chosen by Newsnight for the first live televised hustings debate with the Labour leadership contenders.