Boris Johnson's chilling threat to ITV: You'll face 'consequences' for excluding us from TV debates

Britain’s main commercial broadcaster has been warned by the official Leave campaign that it faces “consequences for its future” after scheduling a debate between Nigel Farage and David Cameron in the run-up to the EU referendum.

In an extraordinary statement issued late last night Vote Leave accused ITV of “lying” over its plans to invite Mr Farage to take part in the debate instead of Michael Gove or Boris Johnson.

Downing Street are determined that Mr Cameron is not seen directly debating his fellow Tory colleagues as they fear that would enflame internal tensions in the party – and could backfire on the Remain campaing.

I love how 'chilling' has been wheeled out for this - that word barely gets a look in with murder or paedo cases.

It’s probably being used in this context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect