The suggestion that broadcast debates may be limited to the leaders of the Labour and Conservative parties is another blow to our already vulnerable democratic system (TV debates: Lib Dems face fight to share leaders’ stage, 31 October).
An open and fair media is a vital part of a healthy democracy. To help us decide about matters that will affect us for generations, be it dealing with the climate emergency or our membership of the European Union, we need broadcasters and journalists to ask the right questions. Which is why their search for the best ideas and the best people must be across all parties and candidates.
Sara Parkin
The Sustainability Literacy Project
• Plaid Cymru is absent from the list of parties in your article (Let battle commence: The parties’ policies, their war chests and how they’ll woo voters, 30 October), despite having four times as many MPs as the Green party. A serious omission?
Amanda Epps
Charlbury, Oxfordshire
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