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General Election Debate Ratings Revealed: Rishi Sunak & Keir Starmer’s Face-Off Watched By Less Than 5M


General Election Debate: The ratings have been revealed for the ITV program that saw Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer face off.

The Julie Etchingham-hosted ITV ding dong, which was produced by MultiStory Media and lasted just more than an hour, peaked with around 5M towards the end, according to Barb data supplied by overnights.tv. Speaking to a wealth of topics including tax, the National Health Service, education, immigration and even the advice they would give to England soccer manager Gareth Southgate, Sunak appeared to have come out the better via polling and press reports, but only just. The previous debates came during a bad-tempered election run in the winter of 2019, when Johnson, who was forced to resign three years later over ‘partygate’, ran on the claim of “getting Brexit done,” winning with a landslide.

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