Rishi Sunak clutching at straws & Starmer has a brain freeze in Nottingham
He tried his poor little heart out, outgoing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak uses TV debate to try to avert Tory electoral meltdown
Rishi Sunak has made a pugnacious last-ditch bid to try to avert electoral disaster for the Conservatives in next week’s general election, repeatedly urging voters in a television debate not to “surrender” the UK to Labour.
Hosted by Michele Hussain the pair had no knowledge of the questions they faced from members of the public at Nottingham Trent University.
PM candidates clash on immigration, tax and Brexit
With new opinion polls pointing to a massive Labour majority, the prime minister came out fighting on Wednesday evening, insisting that Sir Keir Starmer would raise taxes, allow welfare spending to spiral and lose control of the country’s borders.
The Labour leader used the primetime political debate on the BBC to seek to link the scandal on election betting affecting Tory candidates and officials with the prime minister’s past breach of Covid lockdown rules.
At times, Prime Minister Sunak dominated the debate, firing questions at his Labour opponent over his stance on illegal immigration and stopping small boat crossings, sending Starmer into his traditional brain freeze.
Sir Keir attacked Mr Sunak’s plan to deport some asylum seekers to Rwanda, but was drowned out by the PM repeatedly asking: “What would you do with them?” Causing the labour leader to close his eyes like he needed a reset.