Last night with Rishi and Keir

Did you watch Starmer v Sunak on ITV last night? The time – over an hour – went quickly, even though both men were clearly intent on damaging their opponent rather than articulating their own plans.

As in such debates, how the candidate handles himself is important.  Even when the audience laughed at a stand he took, Sunak carried on regardless and looked like he was armour-plated. Starmer’s advisers should have told him not to roll his eyes: when he did, he looked like a condescending law-and-order man.And if he could have looked a bit less blotchy-faced, that’d have been good too.  

There was considerable talk  of ‘keeping England  ‘safe’ and the word ‘nuclear; was tossed around. Starmer was effectively asked if he’d press the nuclear button; he said in his roundabout way that he would. Sunak saw such willingness to be a murderer of millions of people as something that came with the territory..

At that point I think they should have ended the debate since both men, besides being bloodthirsty on a massive scale, are clearly insane