Rishi Sunak has beaten Sir Keir Starmer in a snap poll asking viewers who performed better in tonight’s debate.
The YouGov poll delivered narrow results with Sunak gaining 51 per cent of favourable opinion while Starmer garnered 49 per cent of votes.
The party leaders were scolded as they repeatedly clashed in Tuesday night’s debate over key issues including taxes, immigration and NHS waiting times.
Debate mediator Julie Etchingham told the Labour and Conservative leaders to stop shouting over each other as they went head-to-head.
The prime minister will welcome the snap survey results as he was striving to turn his party’s fortunes around in opinion polls.
With just four weeks to go until the general election, the debate on ITV represented a last chance for the Tories after a series of polls suggested Sir Keir was on course to win more seats than Tony Blair’s 1997 landslide victory.
The Conservatives have been predicted to get less than 100 seats - a historic low - in four of the last five polls. The countdown is now on for Keir Starmer and Sunak to put up their case in front of millions of voters.
