Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer compete in TV debate – News

The first televised duel took place a month before the British general election. There was only one winner.

Incumbent Prime Minister Rishi Sunak harshly attacked rival Keir Starmer in ITV’s first televised debate before the general election in nearly a month.

The Conservative Prime Minister has claimed several times that the SDP wants to increase each employee’s annual tax burden by £2,000.

The leader of the opposition, Labor Party leader Keir Starmer, dismissed the allegations made in the debate as “nonsense,” and toughened his tone, saying: “He is making things up as he talks.”

According to Starmer, Labor only wants to increase VAT for private schools and excess profits tax for energy companies.

You have no plans for the future.

Starmer did not back down from the accusations in the duel. Sunak’s Conservative Party bears responsibility for the poor state of the country, with long waiting times in clinics, high mortgage interest rates and a sharp increase in the cost of living. The challenger also addressed the problems of the education system and the shortage of teachers.

Starmer said that after 14 years, the Conservative Party was desperately grasping at straws. Naturally, Sunak sees things differently. Labor had years to put forward its own ideas, but there were no concrete plans: “They have no plans for the future.”

Polls see Rishi Sunak as the narrow winner of this first TV debate. However, opinions were somewhat divided: 51 percent saw the incumbent prime minister as having an advantage and 49 percent saw his rival.

Commentators praised Sunak’s combative tone as he repeatedly asked Starmer directly about his plans. There is a second debate scheduled for June, after which we will see if Starmer can score a better result.