This was an energetic debate in which the disagreements were stark, but Rishi Sunak needs momentum - and soon
Our venue here in Hanley is in the seat of Stoke-on-Trent Central - a seat won by the Conservatives for the first time at the last general election. What would people here make of what has since happened in Westminster, and the prospect of a new prime minister?
What is increasingly clear is how different an economic prospectus they each offer and how willing they - and their campaigns - are to sharply criticise each other, storing up no end of political opportunity for Labour to throw it back at the winner afterwards. And so, yes, plenty of hugely important topics didn't get talked about. To take just one, for instance, the future of the UK and the debate about another independence referendum in Scotland.I had planned to ask the candidates to be clear, if they were obfuscating and spell out explicitly that they thought their opponent's vision would make people poorer. I didn't need to. They said it explicitly in the opening 15 minutes.
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