Staring at defeat, Rishi Sunak refused to surrender in the last TV debate of the campaign. It won’t help him much.
The Labour leader knew he needed to blunt Rishi Sunak ’s attacks on him over taxes and immigration, stop the prime minister interrupting, and do his very best not to look likeAnd he tried — he really did — but in the last debate of the British general election campaign, Starmer pretty much failed on all fronts.On those kind of numbers you’d expect Churchill, JFK and Taylor Swift rolled into one, not a 60-something bespectacled lawyer blinking in the spotlight.
Starmer knows it, too. He has spoken often of how little he relishes his weekly tussle with Sunak at prime minister’s questions in parliament.The Tories also know it, and this time their candidate came out fighting. Scrappy, pugnacious and with nothing to lose, Sunak went into the debate clearly determined to unsettle Starmer and in the process maybe, just maybe, do enough to change the political weather.
Then, Sunak returned to what became his catchphrase for the night: “Do not surrender.” He urged voters repeatedly not to “surrender” to Starmer on immigration, on welfare costs, and on taxes. There’s a wider point, though. It may have been strategically canny, but Starmer’s ploy to make himself as small a target as possible for hostile newspapers to attack made for thin gruel for those watching.
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