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May v Corbyn on Brexit: the debate over the debate

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BBC, ITV or stepping aside for a celebrity edition of The Chase? Whatever, you don’t get to decide

With little over a week to go until parliament votes on Theresa May’s Brexit deal, one issue is taking up a disproportionate amount of time among Westminster’s political advisers and the nation’s broadcasters: arguing over the format of a proposed hour-long televised debate between the prime minister and Jeremy Corbyn.

While the real business of selling the deal to MPs continues in parliament, the political and media class are locked in debate over the debate format. This has now splintered into various strands of subsidiary debates, each of which plays to different issues and insecurities among the political class and the general public that have emerged during the Brexit process.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2Q3KmXf

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