The key moments from Sunak and Starmer's fiery first head-to-head debate | ITV News 

They should have made-out

I think even with 5 minutes you would just get more of the non-answers

I agree they were non-answers

So they don't have to answer

​@@SleepExportsthe best 😢😊

I thought it was just me who found this moderator to be too curt and annoying. Nothing of substance was actually said.

What do you expect? A afternoon Tea party? This is where both leaders will show their true plans under pressure.

Imagine Douglas Murray asking the questions.

Useless debate. No answers. Both proven to fail the country .

Love it, even when its on a UK network it's still America's fault. It's not obviously executives trying to make it easier to carve out soundbites that's driving the change, no, it's big bad America making your country stupid.

Would you rather they have 5 mins to answer, and waste your time rambling on about the usual nonsense?

@@ceemmm3526 Well, yeah, at least they get to say something that can be dug into. 45 seconds is just enough for a sound bite.

​@ceemmm3526 When it comes to the future of the country, yes. It's not about being bored or entertained like some kind of game show.

and then she has the audacity to say "Gentlemen Please!"

Starmer Dont even try to answer any questions just points the blame back

Arrogance if preferable to being a principle free zone or a morphing jellyfish

Minus sunak 😂😂😂.

@@etherspin The problem with arrogance is it means the wrong decisions get taken with just as much enthusiasm as the right ones. Poll tax happens. Iraq War happens. etc

@@SalemGhassanHanna that's a good point.

Vote Reform

And these are people in control of our lives.

​@bassmasta93 No. . You're in control over your own life and your own choices. They're in control of the UK, unfortunately.

Honestly even before partygate I thought rishi was a pretty good politician. He still is but the financial issues and the doctor strikes aren’t going to be dealt with under him. Partygate didn’t bother me much since I think as long as the country responsible for around 100 million people (including those who are citizens but live abroad) is taken care of and is fine let the politicians break as many laws as they want. Yes they shouldn’t be committing crimes etc anyways but it’s just something you gotta live with. But my Dad lost both his parents due to covid in 2020 and 2021 as well as his step mother into 2021 too. So he was absolutely infuriated by partygate Long story short the day liz truss was elected I became pro labour. Out of Boris, Liz, Rishi and probably every other MP currently in the Conservative Party I knew Rishi was the right man for the job. He isn’t perfect but everyone else is or was terrible After watching this debate I was reminded neither keir or Rishi are good people. I admired Rishi for paying his seatbelt fine but now I realise it was just to get more votes. They are both lying about their promises and this country is honestly just gonna get worse and worse.

@@shadowmoth9158it will get worse if the Tories stay in for sure

THEY DONT CARE

Step backwards, they want it to be like the US when it comes to debating

Without being interrupted...no

NOPE

No he didn’t, he’s a snake not to be trusted

He tried, kept getting interrupted by both Sunak and the moderator.

No!!!

Why we don’t allow electric dog collars for these things

They would both be shown up for the lightweight charlatans that they are that’s why!

They need common sense first.

its all controlled theatre, rishi and starmer are best mates

It was pretty good compared to debates we listen to in America

Just another distraction like immigration,taxes, economy etc. we should run the country not "experts"

agreed, i said it too very bad. Wasted 1 hour, but tbh i knew i wasnt getting bugger all from these 2 anyway.

Yes, she was appalling.

I totally agree with you! Not only had the moderator done a miserable job, so had Sunak who repeatedly interrupted Starmer and dodged the questions! Shame on him! Totally unfit of Sunak to be even re-elected, let alone be the PM!

Vote independent/green (whoever is closest to majority) if a workers party of Britain isn't standing

This UK prime minister debate is not far off from the US Presidential debates (e.g., constant interrupting (Rishi Sunak was mostly doing the interrupting), avoiding the questions (Keir Starmer was mostly avoiding the questions in this debate), not enough time to answer the questions (the moderator gave 45 seconds to a minute to answer the questions)). This was a terrible debate by the moderator and the candidates. If this is the best on what the UK has to offer, then the UK is screwed either way.

It is the worst format I have ever seen in my entire life. It was both a disaster and a disgrace.

Farage would wipe the floor with these jokers

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she did a great job - very fair and she controlled it when and where necessary. What are you talking about ? You obviously blame Starmer's lie on the moderator?

Come away from this, with no idea what Labours going to do???

Remember the Kilroy programme in the 90s? He had a hand-held microphone and could control who spoke and when. Microphone = power! They should have done something like that!

It sort of feels like them speaking over each other and arguing is part of debate..

​@@user-ov1sd7rr4q No it isn't. A debate is where both sides hear one another out and then argue the point after either side has made their claim. This was just childish arguing, no professionalism whatsoever.

@@user-ov1sd7rr4q if they’re speaking over each other and arguing, isn’t that… an argument? I thought we were supposed to let the parties have their fair say like a *debate*.

Thats how it works lol, you would need deflation for prices to come back down.. but nobody does that, instead paychecks go up. But isn't all this due to Brexit and covid anyway? Do you think inflation would be lower with labour government?

@@lukazupie7220 tories put us through a decade of austerity and tripled the national debt. They then blamed inflation on Putin's invasion when it was already hitting 6-8% before Russia invaded. The fact they made one of their goals to reduce inflation was total bullshit as they have no control over making that happen

Abysmal work by ITV letting him run the show

Sounds Prime ministerial to me

He didn’t sound prime ministerial. He sounded like a bully.

You are right. They should have been made to speak through the Chair. That is exactly what they do in the House of Commons, albeit the Chair is referred to and known as the Speaker. It is therefore not an alien concept to either Sunak or Starmer.

Sunak was, as usual, obnoxious, disrespectful, rude and didn't want to listen, and that's how he is towards the British public.

The US is 100% at fault for the foreign policy. When they are weak and have a government full of war mongers the world burns .

He might have millions BUT where can he go to spend or hang on to it..he is turning our country into an Islamic state … we all know what that would mean! Dw

@@newin548 Ah yes - let’s throw in terms like Islamic State to deflect the anger at something else. If you wanted to look up a proper Islamic state you’d have to go back to the Ottomans who have run a better government than both of these loons.

@@Vintage0808 agree with you! Cannot believe some people read the Mail and think its all truth. A 6% Muslim population does not make an Islamic state

or starmers lack of answers

No one says the colonies. Are you 200 years old?

It was pretty good compared to debates we listen to in America

Starmer should be less submissive, then. He gets talked over now, he'll get walked over when the election is done. He can't handle one man, so how would he handle a whole opposition, lobbying groups and international pressures?

tbf, Starmer wasn't exactly giving answers

51% of a You Gov poll thought Sunak did better than Starmer...

Sunak quite facts whereas starmer clearly didn't have a plan and was expressing 'hope'.

That’s a lie and you know it 🤡

I'm 61, and all my life I have never managed to get a GP appointment the same day! I hate the Tories but,due to the way GP surgeries are run,and more and more GP's now work part time are part of that problem. There are times when you can't blame politicians for everything. Use your own mind and don't use the rhetoric of the media.

@Lrow095 you don't know what your talking about

@@Lrow095 Have you tried your local one?

I have worked in a gp surgery in London for 18 years and you've never been able to get an appointment the same day unless it was an emergency

Lefties are blind to his sliminess because of their ingrained hatred of tories

He answered every single question go and check the full debate

@@shaurya_soni7 we can literally see him not answer questions in this clip. He provides answers, but those answers don’t directly respond to the questions asked. Don’t be blind. Don’t think in black and white terms. Don’t see 1 t**t when you could see 2.

100% correct

It's his only option because he can't talk about his record

Why you still watching these wef Puppet actors 😂😂😂

Good question

Sunak only interrupted when starmer wouldnt answer a question and just tried to get personal. Secondly only a halfwit thinks starmer is any better, he has backtracked on every single pledge, sunak is a tory behaving like a tory, starmer is a labour leader who behaves like a tory and has rid his party of any real labour leftists. Clear to see who is worse.

This comment section has been botted to hell and back now, Tory election machine in action.

Sunak just interrupts anything he doesn't want the audience to hear.

@@jg00000Question: why did starmer hold back from most of Rishi’s questions?

Starmer actually believes a man can become a woman, he doesn't have any common sense

Come of it STARMER was lost for words he couldn't give straight answers he wants to build a million new home's and yet all the water companies have told the government by 2050, we're going to have severe water shortages STARMER isn't fit to be prime minister if he gets in number ten tax will go sky high,

Would you have complained if it were the BBC’s unfairness????

Labour 27 % ahead in the polls the Tories have runout of road .

Starmer only knows to criticise and got no plan

because starmer talks utter shyte and can never answer a question

​@@tazmaniandevil_9185Both of them talk Shyte! All they care about is themselfs

@@sarahkorver2439 Rishi is so rich you could give him 100m pounds and he wouldn't even care. He's doing this because he genuinely thinks he can help.

​@@michaelr375 Might wanna look up how much money he's made since he got involved in politics and how he made it.

@@michaelr375 that's laughable, why doesn't he just donate money to charity rather creating policies for the rich then?

They make too much money out of the public to let that happen 😉🇬🇧

@tinadeelite.author9412 - Yes, certainly. Particularly ‘dreadful’, ‘penny-pinching’, ‘sinister’, ‘lazy’, ‘unethical’ British Gas after years of ‘torture’ in spite of (thank God) being able to pay my bills! And I am a Shareholder in the equally ‘appalling’ Parent Company, Centrica plc! Roger.

is that worse than lying and not answering any questions - he would allow his child to die rather than pay for an operation? really

@@user-cx4ll4rj1t yes probably, but that's a matter of opinion- both are bad.

@@user-cx4ll4rj1tif you’ve already accepted that this is even an option given what we all pay into a national health service, you’re beyond repair.

Working families can't afford private health insurance, real workers are not paid their worth. As for workers in the NHS going on strike, if they hadn't been neglected for the last ten years, and had been given decent pay rises, that wouldn't happen. The Tories have ruined this country with their policies that aid the rich and hinder working people. Vote them out.

He is hateful.

These leaders are no Winston Churchhill or Clement Atlee or William Ewart Gladstone or Margaret Thatcher. These are the best prime ministers in my opinion.

Its happened. England has gone full American style politics! 😩

A little racist...?

Nonsense. Although this debate showed one thing to me, Starmer is much higher on the Socio/psychopath scale than Sunak. In fact I don't think Sunak is even on the scale

sunak answered every question, I didn't get one answer from starmer

Kier answers was just not doing it for me. Very disappointed

@@carrerau7138😂👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Sunak was allowed to take charge of the debate and had Starmer on the back foot pretty much the whole time.

@@Captain_AardvarkKier was rude he didn’t even look at Sunak while they were debating

@@gangstagamegangstagame4467 I'm sorry to disagree, but the answers are supposed to be addressed to the 'chair', in this case the so-called moderator.

​@@bryanwood8050Sir-Vix doesn't even dare to look in the mirror...

@@joescott54 ?

Completely agree, the media is too right wing and not an unbiased body.

I genuinely thought the opposite based on this video(I did not watch the live debate)

Spot on

Most media does, and the Right never stop bleating about being cancelled!

Sunak just came across like a bully. Entitled, shouting, talking over Starmer. Do ITV - or the programme’s host - have a right-wing bias?

They obviously will win again, Starmer is not a debater.

is that worse than lying and not answering any questions - he would allow his child to die rather than pay for an operation? really

Were we watching the same video? Keir is incapable of giving a straight answer to a simple question. He is a very poor debater. He just recites the same old soundbites. Stop the gangs? What does he think has been going on for years? His party have thwarted every removal and every initiative. He's even worse than Sunak. Not long ago he was fully supportive of Corbyn. He is an opportunist, not a statesman.

Rishi Sunak looked like a bully and a brat tonight. I think it’s because he’s a billionaire. He is in a bubble of his own entitlement and is used to always getting his own way. It’s the reason why he was shouting all over Keir Starmer and wouldn’t let him answer questions. He needs to learn respect for other people.

@@suez9553 Starmer looked weak and incapable.

@@user-cx4ll4rj1t oh dear you miss the point, rishi would pay and let the NHS collapse

All traitors

If you still think we have a democracy your too gullible to save!

I'd rather give the Lib Dems, Greens or even Reform a chance. The Tories and Labour have had enough chances.

​@@barukkazhad8998More than that

That's LITERALLY how Parliament will look after the election. Your only real options are those 2...

Not every kid needs to go uni…

im thinking he needs cannon fodder to fight russia in about 3-5 years mabey im just being cynical and to be fair someone needs to protect his cash right ??

@@Cripinub1 Thats very true but the option to go should still be as accessible to someone from a working class background as it is to the the wealthier in this country.

University is just a brainwashing cult factory anyway

You are correct in what you say about this

The US voters re facing same dilemma 😢😢😢 it's crazy the type of empty heads politicians we ve in last 10yrs 😢

Vote another then

For those too young or too stupid to remember. Under the last Labour government, Highest satisfaction in the NHS "Ever". 20,000 more police officers, 32,000 police support staff. 63,000 more nursing staff. Twice as many courts, libraries, police stations. 19,000 more doctors. Average wage 31% higher. 26,000 surestart centers nationally. 2 day waiting time for GP appointments 4 hour A&E waiting time. Lowest child poverty since the war. Lowest homeless numbers since the 80s. Highest living standards since the war. BUT IF YOU DON'T WANT ANY IMPROVEMENT "DONT VOTE FOR THE PARTY THAT EXISTS FOR YOUR BENEFIT"

@@brianferguson7840 all fair points but there's a heck of a lot more people here now than when labour were in power you can't overlook that when considering these numbers.

Just proves that starmer would be walked over by the bankers donors investers and the eu. He isn't strong enough.

damn you really put some detail into that one...

😂 and Starmer does??

Starmer can't tell the difference between a man and woman

​@Dahblackrussian Sp what is the difference?

Explain how? I see many people making comments like these without expanding. I think the British people are thinking over this one, Sunak is far better than ill planned Starmer

Not a great performance as moderator but comparing her with the Speaker of the House of Commons is unfair to her.

Yes abysmal moderation. Sunak was allowed to ramble on at will

Sunak came across like a bully. Who does he think he is shouting all over Keir Starmer and not letting him answer the questions? He needs to learn respect for other people.

Neither does Starmer…

Stammer said his dad was a tool maker but oh he owns the company not a worker what a waste of space he is

@@haaaaaay He grew up working class and in poverty...

@@barrymcgovern1850 That myth peddled by Ashcroft and the far-left has been debunked several times

For the first few years of his life he was middle class. His family became quite successful when he grew slightly older

Didn't vote for starmer who can't tell the difference before a man and woman

Still better than power hungry starmer who has no principles or spine

is that worse than lying and not answering any questions - he would allow his child to die rather than pay for an operation? really

@@user-cx4ll4rj1tthat such a good point. Just shows Kier says anything to get votes. Disappointed with kiers answers.

July 4th is your opportunity. 🎉

typo .... billions

It’s actually worse than millions angie it’s Billions and that PPE that’s not fit for use has and is being scrapped and no one says anything let alone does anything

Hi how is the NHS ruined?

@@ssingh247365I’m four years waiting for an adhd diagnosis and 3 years into waiting for my wisdom teeth to be removed. I did the pandemic working in a disabled people’s home and those people had their antidepressants and antipsychotics halved because they told us too many people were accessing them. It takes us desperate means sometimes to source appointments for chronic bypassing from catheter from doctors and as above said they equipped us with broken PPE - that risked the health of his healthcare staff and we could barely see out of the visors. The health poverty is just a way to remove a surplus population early

The fact he wouldnt go private if his loved one wad on there death bed and needed it showed me he is just full of lies. He can afford it so its common sense to. He just lies to please the crowd, that's a huge red flag because it shows he will say anything to get into office

Keir's had years of asking questions and not really used to being interrogated himself.

Reform

VOTE REFORM and end the status quo as Starmer will be every bit as bad as Sunak.

@@denyscole7382 Reform are Tories 2.0, there's a reason why ex tories are defecting there. Hell their leader now is Farage. An ex wall street banker who profited millions from Brexit.

That’s funny. I feel that way about Starmer. Rishi came across well

Sunak was, as usual, obnoxious, disrespectful, rude and didn't want to listen, and that's how he is towards the British public.

Clear Tory tactic

Tbf 4:00 minutes is a prime example of starmer just waffling and not saying anything of actual use

Why does Starmer refuse to answer the questions, every single time he gets asked a question he diverts to "what the Prime minister did..." he even mentions Lis Trus, she was PM for 49 days like 2 years ago, I don't like either but he clearly has no plans

they think this is assertiveness

Did you watch the whole debate, or just the clips that affirm your bias? They both interrupted each other throughout the debate and I’m no Sunak’s fan.

Well I'd put it like this. I wouldn't trust the Tories with a goldfish.

They are both appalling. Vote Reform

Imagine thinking there's a difference between them. Let's just keep going round in circles 🤷

@@limpetheadyour voting for the racist party A wasted vote

@@limpetheada wasted vote I would not vote for the racist party who won’t win a seat

He answered every question, starmer didn't. Starmer kept running out of time waffling so was cut off. They were both told.....45 seconds to answer

@@steve-kl9ivI agree Starmer didn’t answer well but Sunak interrupted Starmer on every question and shouted over him. Starmer simply stopped talking each time Sunak did this until towards the end, thus losing much of his 45 seconds. Also Sunak interjected another question into Starmer’s answers, why should Starmer answer Sunak’s questions and not the one actually submitted. The real problem was the very poor adjudication and control of the debate together with a very poor format to begin with. I find it odd that we have had people who can speak (lie) well over the last 14 years who got into power or influenced the Brexit vote and it’s been a complete disaster and yet people are still persuaded by such people. It’s like the snake oil salesmen selling wonder medication and still people buy it. This type of debate is meaningless but most voters just can’t be bothered to actually look into policies in depth. They say Labour have no policies, yet if anyone actually looks they do, but until the manifestos are published we don’t know which of them will be included, however nothing is clear from any of the parties on policies at the moment.

The worrying thing is majority of the country are all for it because they believe sunak is gonna fix the issues the tories have bought to the country with 5 more years of Tories lmaooo god help us all

True but todays debate, Kier answers didn’t do it for me.

It’s tragic. How can the government who have caused ALL of our problems… be the ones to fix them? The Conservatives will simply crush this country further and further into the ground.

@@nimzgaz7049 and rishis did? Have some shame he didn't answer a single question correctly and showed he doesn't know basic math. God help us all you want to back rishi after everything his party has put the country through. He's made billonares exempt from paying taxes and created more offshore loops for the rich to get out of paying taxes not to mention he believes private healthcare is necessary meanwhile 3% of this country can afford to pay for it. I don't like stahmer either but i can't be one of those who idoly standby and vote the tories in

vote Reform

Reform!!

Reform

On what I saw last night neither of them is fit to run a bath let alone a country 🇬🇧😉

His appearance is perfectly normal. The problem is who his political philosophy makes him sound like.

🌧🌧 🐀🌂

It’s why we need ranked voting

Broke system and reform needs votes to change the way our politics works. Seats to amount of votes is a joke

Why we need Corbyn

@N0R3M4C ha ha, I dont think communism is the answer buddy, making everyone equally poor helps no one but the state.

@@ThePlaiibox Talk to me when you’ve realised the pension, NHS, public schooling, tax subsidies etc are all what you define as communism. Communism is just a dirty word used to slander any progressive policies and politicians they don’t like.

They have the most MPs seats. When we vote we have our local town MPs who we vote for ,the majority of the towns votes wins,then they get to keep (or win) their seat in the commons. I think there are approx 650 seats in the house of commons.

it's like the US, only two that really matter and the other parties have little to no influence

@@GA-fz2wt So what?

@@kieranlooksangry You don't think Reform are hammering down the Tory fronts doors right about now?

​I answered the question