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UK General Election: BBC Details July 4 Coverage As News Teams Battle To Lock Down TV Debates With Haste


General Election: Clive Myrie & Laura Kuenssberg will host the BBC's coverage as news teams at ITV and the BBC battle for debates.

Others set to feature on the night include Reeta Chakrabarti and Jeremy Vine analyzing results with the famous ‘swingometer’, Kirsty Wark, Fiona Bruce, Victoria Derbyshire, Naga Munchetty, Nick Watt and Alex Forsyth. Since they started taking place in 2010, these debates have proved notoriously difficult to pin down and doyens including former Sky News boss John Ryley have in the past called for them to be enshrined into law, but to no avail. A number of GB News shows are hosted by Conservative politicians and the network is in the process of potentially being sanctioned over a People’s Forum event with Sunak earlier this year that Ofcom says once again broke its impartiality code.

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