Chris

Starmer was nervous, understandably given it’s currently his to lose. And I think he missed an opportunity to be ‘real’ when pressed about Corbyn. He could have owned the egg on his face as a result of party politics being a team sport. The only alternative was to sound evasive, and unfortunately that’s the path he picked.

Still … Rishi Sunak while (I think) attempting to sound confident and willing to stand by his record, just sounded cross and shouty. IIRC he was the only one who got laughed at at any stage and when the credits rolled he was definitely getting heckled, though it wasn’t possible to hear what was said.

Davey and Swinney had to be there but were never more than a warm up act for the only viable choices in the room. I was pleasantly surprised at how useful and relevant the questions to Swinney were, given that the audience was from in and around York.