The BBC and SKY have both confirmed they will host a debates for the final two candidates who remain after the voting by Conservative MPs.
All of the Tory leadership hopefuls have said they will take part in the debate.
Though Boris Johnson has not yet publicly confirmed.
Once the field of ten is narrowed to two, the final pairwill take their case to the 160,000 members of the Conservative Party.
It is at the point they’ll be invited to put their case to an audience, in a single special edition of BBC One’s Question Time with Fiona Bruce.
The same two candidates will also be invited to take part in one-on-one interviews with Andrew Neil, both individual stand-alone programmes, and to take place within the voting period for Conservative Party members, who will decide the UK’s next Prime Minister.
Sky’s proposed format will see the two final candidates in the battle for Number 10 will take part in a live debate with a studio audience made up of Conservative voters at the broadcaster’s west London Studios.
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Fran Fran Unsworth, Director BBC News and Current Affairs, says: “The decision being made by Conservative Party members will profoundly affect us all, so it feels right that BBC audiences get a chance to see the candidates’ debate with each other, and that we scrutinise the various policy proposals they will be standing on”.
“Our plans include bringing the final two candidates in front of the same Question Time audience on the same night to be quizzed by the public, as although the final say will fall to Conservative party members, it’s firmly in the public interest for audiences to question and hear from the next potential Prime Minister.”
The BBC said the debate will happen in June and the date would be “confirmed in due course”.
