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Vote Leave threatens ITV with legal action over referendum event

The Vote Leave campaign has threatened to take legal action after ITV announced David Cameron and Nigel Farage would take part in a live EU referendum event.

Vote Leave described the absence of a Conservative cabinet minister to appear at the same event as the prime minister as an "outrage" and that "ITV have effectively become part of the 'In' campaign".

The two party leaders will each take questions from a studio audience during an hour-long programme moderated by Julie Etchingham.

"Cameron and Farage Live: The EU Referendum" will be broadcast at 9pm on Tuesday June 7 and is the first of two live events on ITV ahead of the vote.

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Culture Secretary: ITV's decision was 'very strange'

The culture secretary and Leave campaigner John Whittingdale has described ITV's decision to pit David Cameron against Nigel Farage in an upcoming debate on the EU referendum as "very strange".

He was speaking to ITV News after the Vote Leave campaign threatened to take legal action against the network, which it said has allowed the prime minister to pick his own opposition.

Mr Cameron, who wants Britain to stay in the EU, should debate the representative of the official Leave campaign, a statement said.

Mr Whittingdale told ITV News that in his personal view: "I do think that ITV's decision to have the Prime Minister debate somebody who isn't from the official organisation campaigning for Britain to leave [the EU] does look very strange."

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