Not another one. We’ve only just recovered from the last election debate. A fairly tawdry head to head between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer in which all we learned was that the prime minister would tell any lie to try to stay in Downing Street. He’s even moved on to lying that he isn’t a liar. We’re now in Boris Johnson territory.
But the debates come thick and fast and it’s now the BBC’s turn. This was a seven-way debate between the leaders of Plaid Cymru and Reform, the co-leader of the Green party and the Scottish National party’s Westminster leader, along with the Labour and Liberal Democrat deputy leaders and the Conservative leader of the House of Commons. It promised to be a 90-minute shouting match in which almost no one had the time to talk in anything but soundbites. And who would be watching anyway on a Friday night?
