Prime minister Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer will debate each other in a second live TV grilling tonight.
It comes after broadcasters revealed their line-up of televised debates ahead of the general election on 4 July.
The Conservative Party leader and the Labour Party leader first went head-to-head in a debate broadcast by ITV on 4 June.
They will then be questioned on Sky News on 12 June live at 7pm, in front of an audience in the key seat of Grimsby.
The two party leaders will face off against one another in a final head-to-head contest to be televised by the BBC on 26 June.
Below is a full schedule of what each broadcaster has announced, including the date and time the programme will be aired, what format will be used and who will participate.
Wednesday 12 June
Sky News will host an election leaders’ event in Grimsby called The Battle for Number 10 which will be broadcast live on the news channel at 7pm.
Both Mr Sunak and Sir Keir will take part in the debate, which is being aired live in front of an audience.
Sky says the audience will be representative of both the local area and the country.
The event is taking place in the new constituency of Grimsby and Cleethorpes - a complex seat likely to be a key battleground at the election.
Following boundary changes, the seat replaces Great Grimsby, where the former Conservative MP Lia Nici secured a majority of 7,331 in 2019.
It was the first time a Tory had been elected in the seat since the end of the Second World War.
The constituency has been combined with Cleethorpes, where the Tories have been in power since 2010, but support for them is fading.
Cleethorpes is a bellwether seat, backing the winning party at every election since Labour’s 1997 landslide.
The two main party leaders will be interviewed by Sky journalist Beth Rigby before taking questions from the audience, with Sir Keir set to go first after the broadcaster conducted an “FA Cup” style draw to determine who would face the music first.
Thursday 13 June
ITV will host a second debate on 13 June.
The broadcaster said that leaders or senior representatives from the following parties will participate; Conservative Party, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, SNP, Reform UK, Green Party and Plaid Cymru.
Penny Mordaunt for the Conservative Party, Angela Rayner for Labour Party, Daisy Cooper for Liberal Democrats, Stephen Flynn for SNP, Nigel Farage for Reform UK, Carla Denyer for Green Party and Rhun ap Iorwerth for Plaid Cymru have been confirmed as the participants.
The programme will be moderated by Julie Etchingham, who was in charge of the first debate on 4 June.
It will be broadcast ITV1, ITVX, STV and STV Player and run for 90 minutes.
Thursday 20 June
The BBC will host a special, two-hour Question Time Leaders’ Special programme on 20 June.
The corporation said the leaders of the Conservative Party, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats and Scottish National Party will answer questions from the studio audience for 30 minutes each.
Fiona Bruce will host the show, which will be broadcast from York between 8pm and 10pm.
It has not been confirmed whether the programme will be aired on BBC One or BBC Two, but Question Time is usually broadcast on BBC One.
Friday 21 June
The BBC will host a debate between Wales’s main party leaders on 21 June.
Vaughan Gething (Labour), Andrew RT Davies (Conservative) and Rhun ap Iorwerth (Plaid Cymru) are the main party leaders in Wales.
It will be hosted by Bethan Rhys Roberts and be broadcast on BBC One Wales from 7pm.
Wednesday 26 June
The final head-to-head debate between Mr Sunak and Sir Keir will take place on 26 June.
It will be presented by newsreader Sophie Raworth in Nottingham, airing on BBC One and BBC News.
It will be broadcast from 9pm to 10pm.
Thursday 27 June
The leaders of the main parties in Northern Ireland will take part in a BBC debate on 27 June.
Michelle O’Neill (Sinn Fein), Gavin Robinson (DUP) Naomi Long (Alliance) Doug Beattie (UUP) and Column Eastwood (SDLP) are the main party leaders in Northern Ireland.
It will be hosted by Tara Mills.
Other programmes
ITV will also broadcast a series of interview specials with party leaders, with all the major parties featuring over four shows.
The main party leaders are Mr Sunak (Conservative) Sir Keir (Labour) John Swinney (SNP) Sir Ed Davey (Lib Dem) Nigel Farage (Reform UK) and Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay (co-leaders - Green Party).
They will take place on Wednesday 12 June, Monday 24 June and Thursday 27 June.
Nick Robinson has also invited the leaders of the seven biggest political parties in Britain to be interviewed for Panorama specials, airing over the next four weeks.
Mr Sunak’s interview with Mr Robinson was broadcast on Monday 10 June.
Sir Keir, Sir Ed Davey, Mr Swinney, Mr Farage, Adrian Ramsay and Rhun ap Iorwerth all agreed to take part.
Mr Farage’s interview was due to air on Tuesday 11 June but he pulled out after his Reform UK party faced a row over whether the UK should have appeased Hitler.
Additional dedicated debates will also take place in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.
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