General election TV debate: Tell us who your winner is after Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer head-to-head
Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer have clashed over the key issues in the first live TV debate of the general election – and we want to know what you make of it all
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Your support makes all the difference.Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour party leader Sir Keir Starmer went head-to-head on Tuesday evening in the first debate of the 2024 general election.
Mr Sunak went into the ITV debate as the clear underdog, after a YouGov poll pointed to a Labour landslide bigger than Tony Blair’s in 1997 on July 4.
His challenge was to erode Sir Keir’s dominance, while the Labour leader needed to consolidate his lead, project reassurance and advertise his message of “change” after 14 years of Tory “chaos”.
Given the polling gulf between the parties, Mr Sunak sought to cut through with pointed attacks on Sir Keir’s record as a barrister including his defence of Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir and his work on European human rights cases.
We want to know what you made of the ITV debate. Can debates change the course of an election?
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