please welcome david cameron, gordon brown and a crag -- and nick cregg. we are sitting here in the room where we will be debating. it is very exciting to not just have these debates changed the course of the general election campaign, but we know that there are lots of people abroad that are turning in abroad. >> of these first debates were agreed under party rules the agreement was that the audience would be made up of local people living in the area and that they would pose the questions. you're all so loud a handful of people who are asking questions. we go through thousands and thousands of questions that have been submitted and boiling them down. we hope to set an agenda for the debate. >> [unintelligible] >> our theme is international affairs, which will take the path of the 90 minutes. obviously, europe is interested in england's military participation more generally, the economy is probably the biggest issue in this campaign. the second issue is the behavior of our mp's. can you trust them? have they let them public? the set design gives me a cent