General election - latest: Tetchy Sunak clashes with host over betting scandal in debate with Starmer

Politics
25 Jun 2024 • 12:04 PM MYT
The Independent
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Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer were grilled by the public as the election campaign enters the final stretch.

The prime minister and Labour leader took questions from the public on their plans for government with just over a week to go until polling day.

Mr Sunak and Mr Starmer faced each other on The Sun’s Never Mind the Ballots election special programme.

Earlier, Nigel Farage was in Kent on the campaign trail and doubled down on widely criticised claims about Nato’s role in the build-up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Reform leader hit back at Boris Johnson’s criticism over his comments branding the former prime minister the “worst PM of modern times” as he unveiled a giant version of the i newspaper frontbage with the headline “Boris blames EU for war in Ukraine”.