Natalie Bennett to ask: “Five hundred thousand homes – £2.7bn? What are they made of – plywood?” In January 2015 Ofcom ruled to exclude the Green Party from the televised debates surrounding the 2015 election, on the grounds that the party had not demonstrated "significant past electoral support in General Elections". This ruling led to an upsurge in Green Party support after Bennett called the ruling "disgraceful and indefensible" and David Cameron claimed that he was "quite happy for there to be no debates at all" if the Green Party was not included. This decision was later reversed, after which the Green
Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town met in New York to discuss ideas for what the series would be like. The resulting programme would be called "Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town" in the United Kingdom and other areas of the world where Thames Television owned it, while it would be called "This Is Music" in the United States and in parts of the world where Bennett's company owned it. Bennett had control over the format and other details of the show and felt he was on a mission of "bringing good music back to television." Television shows in the variety format and hosted