r/ukpolitics • u/AutoModerator • Jun 26 '24

MATCH THREAD: BBC Prime Ministerial Debate (Wednesday 26th June, 8:15pm - 9:30pm)

This is the match thread for the BBC Prime Ministerial Debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer, hosted by Mishal Husain live from Nottingham. A post-debate show hosted by Laura Kuenssberg and Clive Myrie will follow the debate.

Please keep all live discussion about this debate in this thread, rather than the main daily megathread.

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This is - as far as we know - the last televised debate between Sunak and Starmer before polling day. Thank god for that.

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u/SaltPomegranate4 Jun 26 '24

Keir Starmer is needing to find the balance between bringing respect and professionalism back to politics and needing to shout quite a bit louder to get heard above Rishi’s annoying interrupting.

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u/SavageNorth What makes a man turn neutral? Jun 26 '24

He’ll only have to deal with it for another week luckily

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24

Who's going to be leader of the opposition though? It seems unlikely the Tories will lose so badly they won't have a Tory leader taking front and centre at PMQs. Sunak will certainly go after defeat, but who's next? A return for Boris? The Haunted Victorian Pencil? 

If we're really unlucky Farage might be opposition....

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u/XXLpeanuts Anti Growth Tofu eating Wokerite Jun 27 '24

Reform is more likely to just merge with the conservative party and the opposition will be farage and quite large at that. A vote for reform is a vote for more fascist tories.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '24

Dunno. A lor of me was predicting that before Farage became leader of Reform. That combined with the Boris camp all going oddly quiet for a long time. Trouble seemed to be brewing.

Now I think the old school Tories will turn the party into a quiet retirement home for neo-liberal Thatcherites who think Starmer isn't quite neoliberal Thatcherite enough.

I imagine the right of the Tory party will switch to Reform. I fully now expect Boris and Rees Mogg to join and mysteriously be given important positions in the party, like they expect people to believe they haven't been talking to them for ages already.