Politics election

Sunak and Starmer’s head-to-head debate was the PMQs re-run nobody asked for – 45 favourite reactions

The first of nine televised debates has taken place, ahead of the UK general election on the 4th of July, with just Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer facing each other, as they answered questions set by the public.

Both men made opening statements, with absolutely no surprises in their content.

Host Julie Etchingham posed questions on all the topics you’d expect, suggested by the studio audience and the public. Amongst other things, they included –

Struggling with the cost of living.

The broken NHS.

What they would do about immigration.

The format, demanding 45-second responses, resulted in frustration for all concerned, a lot of shouting over one another, and an increasingly irritated Julie Etchingham.

Here are some of the comments that caught our eye.

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