My purpose will be to get the leaders “going at each other”

Sky's Adam Boulton sets out his stall on the forthcoming leader debates in tehe general election.

He tells the Independent's Ian Burrell that his purpose will be to get the leaders “going at each other”

Boulton’s role model will be the American presidential debate moderator Jim Lehrer, who tries to avoid being a distraction from the candidates. “He has said that if the debates are about me then I have failed humiliatingly and I think that’s absolutely true,” he says. “Because of the expectations of British journalism there could be a little bit of an ego problem but I hope there won’t be an ego problem with me.”