Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak all but descend into outright abuse before Kate McCann’s disturbing collapse
Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PAPhotograph: Dominic Lipinski/PAt was about halfway through the Sun leaders’ debate on TalkTV. The topic had moved on to Ukraine andwas saying Vladimir Putin wasn’t going to stop there. “He’s going to challenge the freedom and democracy …” Liz never got to finish the sentence.
At which point, the broadcast from the TV studio was cut to be replaced with an on-screen notice that the debate had been interrupted. That notice was left in place for more than 10 minutes before TalkTV started airing adverts for other shows. Probably not the right time for that and before long the interruption notice was back in place.
Even so, there was still the feeling of the morning after the night before. What had been seen could not be unseen. What had been done could not be undone. So what we got was two people on their best behaviour. Going through the same charade as before but trying to be grown up. The practised, plastic smiles of politicians who pretend to get on.
Truss was then asked if there was anything she wanted to say to Rish!. She hummed and ahhed. As it happens, there wasn’t really anything. She had already long since said everything she wanted to in previous debates. Two debates in two days was borderline pointless. It wasn’t going to change the dial on anything. The same questions would come up again in one form or another and both leadership contenders would trot out their standard boilerplate answers.
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