Election Challengers Set For Live TV Debate

The five party leaders who are the challengers in next month's General Election will go head-to-head later - with the absent David Cameron and Nick Clegg hitting the campaign trail instead.

Ed Miliband, Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru), Natalie Bennett (Green Party), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP) and Nigel Farage (UKIP) will square up for another televised debate.

They drew lots to decide where they will be standing on the night and the order they will be speaking.

Mr Miliband will be positioned to the far left next to Ms Wood and Mr Farage to the far right next to Ms Sturgeon with Ms Bennett in the middle of the group.

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The leaders will be allowed to make short opening statements at the beginning of the programme, starting with Leanne Wood.

Then David Dimbleby will invite five questions from the audience of 200 voters.

Each leader will have one minute to get across their party's stance on each subject before 10 minutes of free debate.

Finally there will be closing statements with the last word going to Nigel Farage.

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