Rishi Sunak says he is ‘incredibly angry’ about betting allegations in BBC Question Time election special – as it happened

Left to right: Keir Starmer, John Swinney, Rishi Sunak and Ed Davey during the BBC Question Time leaders’ special. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

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Evening summary

• Rishi Sunak has said in a BBC Question Time leaders’ special that he was “incredibly angry” to hear about the Tory election date betting allegations and that Tory colleagues should face “the full force of the law” if they are found to have broken the rules. (See 9.36pm.)

• Keir Starmer has again refused to say if he really believed in 2019 that Jeremy Corbyn would be a great PM when he said he would. But he has said Corbyn would have made a better PM than Boris Johnson. (See 9.12pm.)

• Sunak has indicated that young people might face restrictions on access to finance or driving licences if they refuse to do national service.

And here is a fact check from Ben Quinn from the QT special, which also featured John Swinney and Ed Davey.

Updated at 11.12pm BST

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What Keir Starmer said when asked about his 2019 comment about Corbyn - full transcript

Here is the transcript of the exchange between Fiona Bruce and Keir Starmer about Jeremy Corbyn.

FB: You also said in February 2019 that Jeremy Corbyn would make a great prime minister. You said already, you thought you weren’t going to win that election. Putting that to one side, you said he would make a great prime minister. Did you mean it or did you have your fingers crossed behind your back?

KS: I didn’t think we would win that election.

FB: You said that. Irrespective of that, you said he’d make a great prime minister. Did you mean it?

KS: It wasn’t a question that really arose because I didn’t think we were going to win the election.

FB: We all heard you. We all heard you saying he would be a great prime minister. That was your way of telling the people here to vote for him. Did you not mean that?

KS: I was campaigning for the Labour Party. And I’m glad I did.

FB: But you also campaigned for Jeremy Corbyn to be prime minister.

KS: I was campaigning for the Labour party. I was a Labour politician. I wanted to be elected, or reelected, and I wanted good colleagues to be reelected. Some of the people around the shadow cabinet table were people whose seats were saved because we campaigned hard for the Labour party.

FB: Just answer this, yes or no. When you said Jeremy Corbyn would make a good prime minister, did you mean it?

KS: Look, he would be a better prime minister … [pause] … look what we got, Boris Johnson, a man who made massive promises, didn’t keep them and then had to leave parliament in disgrace.

FB: Did you think he’d make a great, not even just a good, a great prime minister?

KS: I didn’t think we were in a position to win that election. And the more I looked at the preparation we’ve now down, the more convinced I am about that.

Updated at 10.51am BST