A good time to talk economics

So the C4 News team has been attempting to put this together for six months, and now we can say that we’ve got it – the first, and I think only debate between the men who would be Chancellor of the Exchequer.

On Monday 29th March, on Channel 4, after Channel 4 News, co-produced by the C4N team.
 
In my, slightly biased view, it’s a more important discussion than the leaders’ debates.

There are fundamental questions about public finances, about how we got into this financial mess, and where the jobs will come from in the UK in the years to come.

The economy is by far the most important issue in polls. This debate will give the nation the chance to judge the credentials of the three men vying for Number 11. 

There is an outside chance that any of the three could still be Chancellor. All have their strengths and weaknesses.

My hope has been that we can host a debate, that if it had happened in 2005 or 2001, might have helped focus minds on the emerging storm about to visit our economy.

One of the reasons why our political classes did not pay enough attentions to the dangers lurking in the banking sector, is that they were too complicated to become a hot media and therefore hot political issue.
 
Hopefully this debate will ensure that tough questions about big economics will now be a permanent part of our democratic process.

So please get in touch via twitter with some suggested questions here, or with Krishnan Guru-Murthy, host of ‘Ask the Chancellors’.