However I was subsequently called by the producer to say that the MP had refused to debate with me.
(Hamilton goes on to chastise Seabury: "Don't modulate the key and not debate with me!" he insists, a line that encapsulates the show's knowing interplay between musical form and political content).
He adds: "Boris has refused to debate with me for three and a half years … Once you hit the elections, where there's a detailed focus and people start to think 'what does this mean for me?', he can't get away with that".
"I just want the prime minster to come and debate with me and stop being such a big feartie," he told the BBC News channel.
If you want to debate with me, challenge my ideas; if you want to debate with Alberto Fujimori, you can go if you want to Diroes (prison) where he is being held," Ms Fujimori said.
I'm not sure what he would have done if one of us had been a girl, although my brothers often debated with me the assertion that there were no girls among us.
If he is there, I hope he is debating with St. Peter about letting me in when my time comes, and I hope he is winning.
"There had been a [news] story about same-sex marriage and he was debating it with me," Judy Shepard told People magazine.
"We're debating with the architect.
When debating with a liberal, keep calm.
