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Slanging matches and soundbites: debate delivers seven ways to make time drag

Second TV outing manages to be simultaneously predictable, deadly dull and extremely bad-tempered

Not another one. We’ve only just recovered from the last election debate. A fairly tawdry head to head between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer in which all we learned was that the prime minister would tell any lie to try to stay in Downing Street. He’s even moved on to lying that he isn’t a liar. We’re now in Boris Johnson territory.

But the debates come thick and fast and it’s now the BBC’s turn. This a seven-way debate between the leaders of the Green party, the Scottish National party, Plaid Cymru and Reform, along with the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat deputy leaders. It promised to be a 90-minute shouting match in which almost no one had the time to talk in anything but soundbites. And who would be watching anyway on a Friday night?

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