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Party leaders back on the campaign trail after debate

Most of the main party leaders are back out on the campaign trail today after the ITV leaders' debate. All seven party leaders went head-to-head for the first and only time this general election last night, clashing over issues such as the economy, the NHS and immigration.

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ITV leaders' debate watched by 7 million people

The leaders faced off for two hours last night.

Last night's seven-way leaders' debate was watched by an average seven million people, ratings figures show.

The two-hour ITV broadcast was the highest-rating programme on television last night, according to the data - with a peak audience of 7.35 million.

The debate also attracted more than 1.5 million tweets, making it the second most-tweeted-about TV programme of the year so far behind the Brit Awards.

Access to the debate was unrestricted, with 226,000 long form views of the live stream on the ITV Player and ITV News YouTube channel alone.

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