MPs hear praise for Sky News' campaign to establish an independent commission to oversee debates before UK elections.
A minimum of three televised debates, at least one between the leaders of all parties in the Commons and at least two between the two biggest parties;
"We have seen even when the parties have said they would like a debate on perhaps the most important issue in our lifetime, on Brexit, they have failed to make good on their promises," he said.Mr Bone also described Mrs May's failure to take part in a TV debate before the 2017 election as"an insult to the fellow leaders who had put the time and effort to attend the debate".
"One of the things that really brought home to me just how important these television debates are to the general public is when they failed to get one, during the last general election, and felt shortchanged." But Conservative MP Oliver Dowden, responding for the government, said there were"very obvious deficiencies" in Mr Bone's bill.
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