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Both were useless

Can you both invite them for a longer form debate on your own channel?

Didn't watch it pointless really, even this podcast is a reflection of the politics. 25 yrs of liberal left government with socialist policies... The answer to socialism isn't more socialism unfortunately, so we won't see any chance for 15 yrs unfortunately

its not about who won. its about who will loose! do you know the answer !US THE PEOPLE WILL. they both are awful. Wait for a dreadful conditions like you never seen before. both lying both have no plans and do you know what's funny and strange! after another 4-5 more years, again another 2 standing and blaming each other like someone else made the situation worse. IT CALLED POLOTICS.

Sunak slaughtered Starmer...

Starmer's attack on Sunak for gaining off of the public as an investment banker during the financial crisis was a highlight. It definately rattled Sunak up a bit

And boots sterile water from India isn’t.

Sunak just tells lies & gaslights with a smarmy smirk on his face.

Starmer won, led sunak into a trap over labour "tax rises" that sunak repeated 12 times. Today a letter comes out saying civil service did not say any such thing. The tories are now called liars all over every news channel so game set and match to labour.

But the Sun always shines in Somerset

Starmer kept dodging giving direct answers to questions by deflecting or just repeating the problem or goal. This led to the episode where Rishi kept asking/interrupting "but how?"

Come to lovely Devon, apparently we will get free electricity for ever from Hinckley point paid for by the French!!

A pity labour penalises middle income families who sacrifice so much sometimes to send their children to private schools. We were able to do this with the help of The Assisted Places Scheme. Why not resurrect this if VAT is to be implemented. ghobbs

It will be a choice between cancer and hiv. What do you want?

James O’B for king!

The prediction section at the end shows clearly the difference between a realist and a dreamer. MI6 are real, MI5 dreamer.

Giving 45 secs to respond then allow sunak to continually shout over starmer with his 2k lie was terrible. ITV were awful at mediating.

Lockdowns were and are not the answer. Sweden showed that. Lockdowns are an expression of politicians like Khan to increase their power.

Ive always voted labour, but if the right wing hadnt taken over the Tories and Rory was in charge i would consider voting for them over this Labour. However, it will have to be labour again

There’s going to be a least 1 more debate,so their briefness in 1st 1 may not matter.

It was in the mould of a presidential debate in the US which, for me, that is no way to run a debate because you can’t give reasoned arguments in 45 seconds soundbites. I would rather not have debates at all if they are going to run like that or have question time type programmes with questions from the audience, with each main leader, one after another.

59:55 I'd be interested to know if Mandela ever publicly criticised Zuma or the guptas.

I must watched a different debate. Sunak was woeful,rude and entitled You learn from history but Rishi Sunak does not want talk about it as their record is so bad. Only lies left !!!!

But Sunak had a point about national security. If he promises to do 2.5% and Starmer doesn't, then he can be trusted more. Its a valid point. Of course that doesnt mean Starmer is a threat to national security.

Yeah deeply inauthentic ,I agree

Im a labour voter but I'd say Sunak slightly had the better of it

The Conservative idea of National Service is so bad it is mind boggling. A long dead idea which no one wanted, dug up and placed like a rotting zombie at the front of a manifesto. Sunak style leadership. If you wanted to drive your own supporters away this is the one to do it. Campbell radiates hypocrisy like few ever have, as for accusing others of lying 🙂🙂🙂🙂. He is famous for it. After all these years Campbell continues to be one of the people leading "The Great Sulk" over the referendum. What a mean minded pathetic figure he cuts.

The first half was very poor in that no ideas or plans were really put forward. Starter kept just moaning about the last 14 years. Improved in second half

It was a circus rather then serious debate and thats fault of ITV, lets hope the other channels do better!!

To be honest I never watched it. I watched the box set of the BBC's House Of Cards instead. Better than the real thing.

Rishi Lied about labour tax rises to come.

The classic Euros question at the end always annoys me....Next Prime Minister of the UK but always a comment on English football even though Scotland are also in there. Should there be such a preference to one National side on these debates?

They should instead have a fire-side chat that is televised and unscripted where each candidate has 4 issues to bring up that can be brought up at any time.

It's such a shame that, seemingly, in the modern Tory party there appears to be no place for a moderate, centrist, one-nation conservative like Rory Stewart. I mean, I wouldn't vote for him, but at least he seems to have a vague sort of vision about how he sees the country going forward. Unlike every other Tory I've ever heard speak!

Starmer was wooden and his green polices are very naive, like all having to have the large impractical heat pumps after 2030 but at least the country found out that Starmers dad was a tool maker twice.

Media won, the British public all lost.

I can’t get over how 51% thought Sunak performed better after getting laughed at twice or more

Bad format. 45 seconds to answer questions on policy. Sunak remained inherently disingenuous. And why the attack on legal immigration?

Oh look breaking news, treasury civil servants distance themselves from the £2k claim. Its because it came from a Conservative think tank calculation, which is a political interpretation. I think the host failed to control Sunaks petulance, but the fact he bulldozed her does not reflect well on him. People will also raise the point about attitudes towards women. I think it was better for Starmer to lose this debate and win the election, rather than engage here and disengage many more would be voters.

As a non-UK person, how can it be that the candidates don´t know the format before?

Awful format, the moderator was very weak. Sunak absolutely disrespectful, never sticking with the timing and talking over Starmer. At some point I was thinking Sunak was the leader of the opposition, pushing questions to Starmer as he's not responsible for the mess of the last years. Surreal indeed.

I'm tiring of the brexit bashing. I still believe that brexit wasnt the real issue and as well as causing problems it opened up multiple opportunities. (imo) The implementation of it by a Boris government was the problem. I believe it should be back on the election talking points but as how the Tories have failed to utilise it and how it should used for our betterment. We eport to the EU as much as we did before brexit. We are now in huge free trade deals. Why hasnt this impacted on our economy is the question we should be asking.

Trick question - no one won... We all lost! Waste of time, nothing of any significance that will change the current direction of the election.

Wouldn't trust Campbell to read a weather report. 😊

Sad I can only find reaction videos online and not the real thing. People abroad still have a vote and should have access to it

What we really want to know is, did either of these morons actually at any time tell the truth? It would be a first!

Boris lied about a birthday cake, Campbell lied to get us into a war. What a complete evil man?😂

Love it how the biggest liar and producer of the dodgy dossier gets screen time. 😂😂😂😂

Starmer didn't come across as good as I'd hoped and Sunak was far too arrogant. Neither really impressed me, but the format wasn't great either. Too many interruptions and talking over the other one. Starmer should have shut down the £2K tax issue right away or people would start to believe it.