Mark Riley wants Seven’s election debate to be better than Nine’s Sunday night ‘spectacle’

Seven’s leaders’ debate will have a single moderator, Mark Riley, asking the questions of Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese. Photograph: Seven

Seven News political editor Mark Riley says he’ll use “a chair and a whip” to control Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese in the third and final leaders’ debate and avoid a repeat of Sunday night’s “spectacle”.

“The two leaders will be behind podiums with me in the middle with a chair and a whip,” Riley told Guardian Australia ahead of Seven’s The Great Debate: The Final Showdown.