Prime Minister David Cameron accepts invitation to seven-way party leaders' TV debate in April
David Cameron had his “final offer” of a seven-way televised party leaders’ to be broadcast early in April accepted by broadcasters.
Two planned debates scheduled to follow ITV's broadcast remain up-in-the-wind however following Cameron earlier this month claiming he will not take part in any debates after 30 March.
The PM instead claims he wants to focus on the Conservative party’s re-election campaign.
The seven-way TV debate, which will feature the heads of the Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, UKIP, SNP, Green Party and Plaid Cymru, is set to go underway in 2 April.
The party heads have jointly vowed to participate in the following debates, hosted by the BBC, Sky News and Channel 4, with or without the PM.
A senior Conservative source told the BBC: "PM accepts broadcasters' offer of one, seven-way debate at the very beginning of April. It now appears Labour are trying to veto that deal. They shouldn't be allowed to get away with it."
A Labour spokesperson said that Cameron's acceptance of the invitation was "one down, two to go," adding "no-one should be fooled, David Cameron is still running scared of a head-to-head televised debate with Ed Miliband".
This comes after Cameron on Monday participated in an exclusive live-streamed Buzzfeed interview in which he said US president Barack Obama envies the UK's blanket ban of political advertising on TV.
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