Rishi Sunak has admitted defeat and isn't fighting anymore | Alicia Fitzgerald 

I really will not miss Rishi's constant barefaced lying and shouting over everyone. Bring on July 4th.

Yet another shrill and petulant performance by Sunak. I really can't imagine that Sunak's constant tetchy interruptions made a particularly good impression on normal, polite people.

I’m just looking forward to having a government that won’t make me wake up in the morning thinking “Oh God, what now?”

No it’s not better to be SHOUTYand rude. It’s petulant to be cross and talk over everyone

He’s got a real fight to keep his own seat, let alone Downing Street

“Starmer really struggled when incompetent Rishi shouted over him like an ill-mannered priveleged fop” There. Fixed it for you.

"But Labour! But Labour! Small Boats! But Labour! Nooooo I'm not moving Right off to America next month Nooo! Small Boats! But Labour!" Etc.

Would Brits think less of us if we here in California politely declined to accept delivery of the damaged parcel apparently headed our way?

Sunak walked off the job the moment he called the snap election. If he could D-Day his way out of Number 10 today, he would.

It's almost as if these topics are complex and require complex answers rather than childish jibes and soundbites

Well he certainly hasn't stopped lying yet

I am in the US so take this for what it's worth... promoting this as a done deal for Labour is probably not a great idea since it may convince Labour voters to stay home and give the Tories a win.

The only thing the Tories are fighting are their own stupidity, and they keep losing.

His lies haven't worked, and he's out of options.

Vote Labour get the Tories out

Wee rishi getting his P45 next Thursday and most of his cabinet ministers and a fair few of his MPs what a corrupt tribe.

I'm not sure what debate they were watching. Starmer may not have wiped the floor with Sunak but he clearly won. This whole thing about the format of the debate working better for Sunak and Starmer being hesitant is nonsense, just desperate scrapings of the barrel by this centre right broadcaster

Sunak and Mordaunt just shout over people and are rude. It's not a debate its a competition who can be the most borish and shouty. The tories win everytime.

Sunak went into overdrive with the lies and smears. The moderator helped him and was obviously Tory-biased, but Starmer still won the polls overall, which shows the public is seeing through the Tories. In the end it s academic. Tories are toast with half their vote share going to Reform.

Why don't these people just mute the mic of the one whose turn it is to listen? The tories would hate it, I know for sure.

Rishi already thinking of his move to perhaps, California!

The way Sunak thrusts his head forward he looks like he wants a fight.

I'd have some genuine respect for Sunak if he got a sick week for the last week and bought a campervan

2:10 - Yes, I am also thrown when someone I am talking to is consistently rude. Reminds me of the Viz line about going to a nightclub with the friend of a friend who is always aggressively friendly.

Why have Brits started using the grotesque Americanism "get-go"? The English expression is "from the word go"...

The counter to Corbyn is Truss. Thanks to her I am paying an extra £300 pcm on my mortgage.

The Conservative's record in office........lets end it. 1. Highest energy bills in Europe. 2. Highest taxes in 70 years. 3. Highest interest rates since 2008 when the rich bankers ruined the world economy. 4. Highest train fares in Europe. 5. Longest waiting lists in NHS history. 6. Raw Tory sewage pumped into rivers. 7. Lowest corporate taxes in 50 years. 8. Lowest State Pension in Europe. 9. Highest Immigration both legal and illegal ever. 10. Destroyed the NHS dentist service. 11. Brexit. 12. One failed Prime Minister after another. 13. Worlds shortest in post Prime Minister which created a financial disaster. 14. More corrupt MP's than any other party in parliament. 15. Europe's longest Austerity for the lower paid. 16. Highest Council Tax rates in the World. 17. Reduced our Armed Forces more than any other G8 country. 18. Highest number of MP's that have been arrested for sexual offences. 19. Highest number of MP's that have been sacked for corruption and Fraudulent acts. 20. Voted to allow Bankers to have unlimited bonus's even though the bankers caused the crash of 2008. 21. More libraries closed due to council cuts than any other modern country. 22. Ruined and destroyed the Train services by giving private companies tax payers money as subsidies. 23. Voted against Labours creation of the minimum wage. Then lie to voters stating they are responsible for it. 24. Wasted billions of Tax payers money on crony PPE contracts for their friends and other Tory donors. 25. Sold off 600 Police Stations. 26. Sold off our Courthouses. 27. Closed then sold our Fire Stations. 28, Failed to fix - repair our schools. 29. Cut spending on youth services. 30. Court backlog is at record levels 31. Threw 40,000 pensioners to the wolves during the first wave of the pandemic. Deliberate policy of getting and spreading covid in OAP homes. 32. Sold off our electrical grid to foreign companies. 33. Failed to build new affordable homes. 34. Wasted billions on HS2 only to then chop it. 35. Failed to close Tax Loopholes for their rich friends and donors. 36. Failed to build 40 new hospitals. They built one. 37. Failed to repair our crumbling roads. 38. Forced many councils into bankruptcy. 39. Failed to address the 4 million children living in poverty. 40. Cut spending on mental health services. 41. Privatised and sold off the nations Post Office - Gas - Water and Electricity Companies 42. Allowed BP and Shell to steal our Oil and Gas reserves whilst paying little to no taxes. (Norway has a Sovereign Wealth fund of over $1.6 trillion). 43. Sunaks failed RWANDA policy has cost approx 500m. 44. Increased the pension age. 45. Failed promise to end rough sleeping. 46. Failed promise to end Leaseholds. 47. Failed to Ban No Fault Evictions. 48. Failed to ban so-called conversion therapy. 49. Failed in their Levelling up promise. 50. Introduced Voter ID excluding thousands from voting. 51. Introduced the bedroom tax. 52. Forced disabled people to jump through hoops to claim benefits. 53. Britain now has more foodbanks than McDonalds. 54. Tried to implement fracking. 55. Failed to invest in green energy and electric vehicle recharging infrastructure. 56. Stripped the unions of their power over years making it extremely hard for the working class to start industrial action when greedy employers refuse to negotiate cost of living wage increases. 57. Failed to prepare or have sufficient PPE for a Pandemic even when it was No1 on the risk register... 58. Given free reign in Non-Dom billionaires and Media owners to cause societal division and fuel racism. 59. Promoted lunatics like Cruella, Mogg and Patel to high office. 60. Blocked the Russia report. 61. Gave us the highest diesel prices in Europe. 62. Closed and then sold off our onshore gas storage tanks to high end developers making the impact of the invasion of Ukraine worse by increasing the cost of gas. 63. Tripled the cost of University fees for students and locked them in their digs during the pandemic. 64. Grenfell. 65. Windrush. 66. Increased our National Debt to 3 Trillion. 67. Partygate. 68. G4S Prisons. 69. We are giving 8 million quid a day to landlords for migrant accommodation due to the Home Office go slow policy. 70. Little to no Border checks on goods and foods. 71. Sold the Farmers and Fishermen down the river. 72. Disgracefully breaking the law making bets on the general election date even though they already had insider information. They have no morals. 73. Sunaks disgraceful D-Day debacle. No respect for the fallen. 74. And they brag that they have increased Foodbanks 1000% since 2010 when they took over. The Tories have damaged the UK enough over the years, lets get rid of them once and for all. The government should be for the people, by the people and not for the rich 1%.

The UK 🇬🇧 is going down fast

Get go? What country am I in?

Need change of government

Lower taxes, increase public spending, reduce national debt ... choose any two. National debt was 35% of GDP in 2008. It's now over 100%. That's like earning £50,000 per year and having £50,000 on credit cards. It's unsustainable. The cost of paying the interest on that debt is second only to annual spending on the NHS. As far as I can tell, the Liberal Democrats are the most transparent in their manifesto about their proposed tax increases to reduce national debt and maintain or increase public spending.

If hes willing to go today, I'd pay for his one way ticket to California

Total ridiculous Sunak was like an over excited boxer rushing out at the 1st bell shadow boxing punching the air Keir Stamer just jabbed away at Sunak accumulating points

So when will we hear they've wound up the Party?

Poor little thing. What will he do now? Probably counting his hundreds of millions or something equally deranged

I dislike these debates. They have little to do with a leader’s ability to be a good PM. They show who is the better debater, who is the better liar, who can make the most dubious claims. I would prefer that we didn’t have them going forward. They make for some ratings though, so I guess they will keep happening in future elections.

The conservatives gave up on Britain a long time ago. At least they are willing to say it out loud now.

This is a hilarious take, that Starmer kept referring back to the Tories previous 14 years. “But Labour” has been the Tory go to line for the last three years

But they aren't 'debates' in reality just shouting matches which are playground debates you had at school!

Starmer struggled because he was having to contend with an adult toddler having a tantrum the whole time. Have you ever tried to make a clear conversation while there's someone acting like a clown? It's not easy. Praising Sunak is just sad

Where are the Government ministers defending the Governement record? They appear to know there is nothing to defend

I thought the Morningside accent had died out...

The current batch of journalists look like they would have been in primary school when the last Labour government was in power. How can they have any perspective to offer?

About as tenacious as a dishcloth. No spine, no effort and no sense of reality.

The pair of them seem to not quite get the numbers polling out there in the real world.

Kier showed up for the boys Rishi left. That tells you everything!

It would be delicious if the police decided to speak to Sunak about the betting scandal on the eve of polling day.lets face it hes already had a couple of run ins with them

We’re not looking for 6th form school debates & who shouts the loudest! We need Sunak to have the time & humility to explain the past & try assure voters how would be different if elected. For Starmer, journos have to accept his character & style are different - he’s not rowdy & aggressive; not natural for him to interrupt & close down another’s view. He is deep & considered & would have been good to allow him some space to answer Qs calmly. By nature, I think he’ll have a good head for policy & will achieve a lot more than we think & carry people with him.

Roger waters recent interview has expressed the utter lies Starmer is mouthing out. Roger also highlighted that if Starmers constituency does not vote for Starmer , Starmer himself will not become leader

What was it Thatcher said again about policies and attacking the person? Answers on a postcard with a blue rosette please

You might want to let your journalists know that for this context in British English, "any more" is two words

Apparently 100 constituencies had not selected an prospective MP, the launch in the rain looks like Mr Bean had scripted that. The betting, D-Day. Sunak will be famous for evermore as how not to launch an election campaign. Sadly Rishi is a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic. Very sad. I am sure Rishi is decent chap and would be welcome at any golf club, but he is not cut out to run a political party, or the UK.

Steve Baker. Tufton Street's new favourite?

KIER STARMER, RETURN MY CHILD IMMEDIATELY. This is not your child!

I wonder if Sunak deliberately campaigned badly to get as many Conservative MPs thrown out as possible after they tried to give him a vote of no confidence?

Steve Baker? God help us

He hasn't been fighting really for a long while...

I’d put a bet on Sunak resigning on July 5th………

Ha says it all he not fighting anymore u never did 🤦‍♀️ u donot deserve a seat goodbuy

Thanks will cancel evening call.

Isn't Steve Baker on holiday over the GE period?

Sunak goes berserk because he can’t actually debate properly. Starmer is forced to shout to be heard - and is talked over by the host and shouted over by Sunak. There should be rules for debate, it’s not a bare knuckle fight. And the public would learn more than this ridiculous tantrum effect of Sunak. Also `Sunak lies deliberately. Knowing the less than intelligent listening will take it as said. This isn’t debate. Please stop saying it is a form of debate which suits Sunak., it is not a debate.

Sunak is certainly not PM material, but Starmer is the classic example of dead wood atop a rising tide.

Glad it wasn't Rishi during the Falklands Conflict.

Thank god for that dont slam the door on theway out theres a good boy

There are two things that make the impending Tory defeat so delicious. First, its extent. Theirs will be a historic defeat without parallel in modern UK politics. Second, Rishi Sunak's personal culpability in this defeat. He is the person who called an election when he didn't have to, and when his party was 20 points behind in the polls, blindsiding his Cabinet and CCHQ in the process.

The Tories are so 💩 i can only assume they are doing everything possible to lose at this point.

its hard to take you guys seriously ! remember all those months of telling us how Ukraine was winning the war. what do you drink at Times Radio ? i need a bottle of that to unwind

It’s goodbye to Roland Rat and Hello to more of the same, but a different name,They all Fleece us.

I'm impressed by the diversity of viewpoints expressed in this thread. It's like exploring a rich tapestry of ideas.😚

It is all about him? His party has destroyed the UK and there is still no remorse. Brexit, greed-flation, government corruption and arrogance and HE has given up? You want me to cry for him? Ask him what he thinks when he packs up and leaves the country he claims to love

Sunak is nakered.

It's like American politics: a choice between two incompetents!

Rishi Sunak clearly demonstrates that he has not got the skills to be a Leader. He is severely lacking

Last day's of the Tories 😂😂😂😂😂

Ok

Bye, Bye Tories!

I still think it is not over. Labour has not got a mega majority .the conservatives could still get in. It's not a done deal. You need to get out and vote them out

Bye bye😂

Sunak seemed full of it last night, and I say that as someone who despises him.

He did what he could, before the other idiots take over.

It is all the pledges he has made and could not fulfil has worn him out

When the Conservatives got rid of a massively popular PM in Boris Johnson, it was game over for the Conservatives. Say what you want, that's a fact on the ground.

Rishi causes issue in debates because he is a petulent bully who doesnt like people who disagree with him

When Labour get in we will have about a month to finish our holidays and then it will be time get provisions in, prepare for a very long winter of discontent and think back about inflation being 2 %. The first industrial action will be the Junior DR s Next Teachers, then Ambulance Service workers, Lecturers and .. Judiciary, the civil service ..everyone will sympathise. No housing development, no social support, not enough care workers... Ferage will be on a plane to see Donald. This is not going to end welll.

Goodbye capitalism evil capitalism as defined by Einstein in his 1949 paper Why Socialism

The Law and the Prophets of God...

Tories have been a disaster Labour will be worse.

The Tories allowed the Boats and Labour wants the Boats. July 4 needs to be our independence date. Lets entirely reset our broken country. Vote Reform.

Well TBH I've watched quite a few of these ' Times radio' and I have to say I'm very unimpressed. Poor interviews, not a great deal of insight so I won't be watching again.