Dubious statistics, prepared lines and a whole lot of talking over one another — last night’s ITV election debate was not exactly commensurate with the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, or even the Cameron/Clegg/Brown encounters of 2010.
The Tories will be pleased that their £2,000 tax hike attack landed, with Sir Keir Starmer oddly slow in his rebuttal. Meanwhile, Labour will be content that no major clangers were dropped and their man won in the empathy stakes. To that end, one poll gave Sunak a narrow lead, another to Sir Keir.
