david cameron last night agreed to a single tv debate during the election campaign the prime minister is expected to attend a seven way session at the start of april, to be shown on itv the deal includes three other political programmes during the campaign in which some of the party leaders will take questions from the public or television interviewers scroll down for video  the prime minister has agreed to one seven way debate hosted by itv on april 2 he will also appear on a number of election specials – but without going head to head against ed miliband  crucially, the bbc, sky, itv and channel 4 appear to have blinked first and dropped their demand for a head to head clash between the pm and ed miliband and they have backed down from their apparent threat to ‘empty chair’ the pm by holding debates with other leaders which he refused to attend labour appeared to deny the validity of the new proposal, insisting it still wanted three debates as originally proposed and accusing the pm of ‘running scared’ of a one to one with mr miliband but, in an attempt to nail down the latest agreement, mr cameron said the other parties should accept it ‘an offer’s been made, a deal’s been accepted, now the other parties must make clear that they accept this deal too, otherwise they will have to bear the responsibility,’ he said ‘that’s what happened: a new offer put forward by the broadcasters, led by the bbc, to me, i accepted it, in full, on saturday so, i’m helping to make this debate go ahead the other parties have got to stop running away from this and agree to the debate the broadcasters have now suggested’ labour leader ed miliband and the deputy prime minister nick clegg would only face mr cameron in one seven way debate  the latest proposal is thought to have been presented to the parties over the weekend according to tory sources, it includes four potential shows, the first in just nine days’ time on march 26 it will be a channel 4 and sky joint production hosted by jeremy paxman and featuring the pm and mr miliband, one after the other, facing questions from the host and a studio audience the second show will be the only debate and will involve seven party leaders, with the addition of nick clegg, nigel farage, green leader natalie bennett, nicola sturgeon of the snp and the plaid cymru leader leanne wood it will be broadcast by itv on april 2 on april 16 the bbc is proposing a ‘challengers’ debate featuring the greens, snp, ukip and plaid a week before polling day, on april 30, the bbc will host a 90 minute question time style show with mr cameron, mr miliband and mr clegg appearing one after the other to face questions from a tv audience this is a better deal for the lib dems, who complained that a head to head between the other two leaders would prevent them from defending their record in government a labour spokesman said: ‘no one should be fooled: david cameron is still running scared of a head to head televised debate with ed miliband’ n mr cameron poked fun at ed miliband for posing for tv cameras in a pokey kitchen that turned out to be one of two in his £25million london home ‘i am not saying this to make a point but you shouldn’t pretend to be something you are not,’ the prime minister said showing off the open plan kitchen he and wife samantha had installed in downing street, he added: ‘we are lucky, we both work, we were able to spend our own money on this ‘to me, the kitchen is where you spend all your time it needs a sofa you can slump on, a table you can sit at, a kitchen you can cook in, a place children can do their homework’ under the broadcasters' latest proposal, the tory, lib dem and labour leaders would appear on question time hosted by david dimbleby (left) david cameron and ed miliband would be interviewed one after the other in a channel 4/sky special hosted by jeremy paxman (right)
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prime minister has agreed to one seven way debate hosted by itv . he will also appear on a number of election specials during the campaign . downing street said mr cameron had accepted the proposal on saturday . comes despite 'final offer' last week for debate no later than next week . new proposal also sees pm and miliband  interviewed on march 26 . on april 16 there would be a 'challengers special' for smaller parties . then on april 30, the pm, miliband and clegg will appear on question time 