Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer will answer questions from ITV viewers for an hour on Tuesday night, in what is presented as the first debate of the election campaign. The BBC will organize, on June 26, the last … between the two candidates with the possibility of being elected to the head of the Government. The vote will be on July 4.
The Conservative Party has for months described Starmer and his party as lacking ideas. And that is why they assured that the Labor Party would avoid debates. He indeed he has done it. He will not attend the one organized by the BBC this Friday, among seven games. And, according to the media, Sunak and his team are considering not participating in that format. They would also have doubts about a four-way debate, with Labour, Liberal Democrats and Scottish independence supporters.
The day before the debate he had a surprise. At midday, the leader of the Brexit movement, Nigel Farage, posted on social media that, at 5:00 p.m., peninsular time, he would make “an emergency announcement about the elections.” Some commentators mockingly wondered if Donald Trump’s friend was going to stage a coup. The emergency is that he is going to take up the position of leader of the Reform UK party.
It is a strange party, constituted as a corporation in which Farage has the majority of shares. The boss removes the position from Richard Trice, a millionaire builder and second shareholder, who “has paid a great personal cost” for managing the party, according to Farage. He will be the candidate in the Clacton-on-Sea constituency, where the first Brexiteer MP was elected before the 2016 referendum.
It is one of the coastal cities ruined in the seventies by the takeoff of cheap flights to the coasts of southern Europe. With tired attractions and hospitality and a population of retirees who worked in the ports and industries of east London, Clacton has suffered from the decline of public services and the presence of nomadic populations.
Fight for Tory leadership
Farage affirms that nothing works in the United Kingdom and that the rejection of the system is expressed in the fact that the party has a lot of support on the networks without advertising. Convinced that Labor will win the elections, his plan is to become the opposition after these elections and win the 2029 elections. On that path, he could enter the battle for the Tory leadership after a defeat by Sunak.
The signs of Labor victory are overwhelming. A survey among viewers of GB News, a channel that fronts its programs with conservative MPs and has Farage as its biggest star, has found that the advantage of those who will vote for Labor over the Conservatives is 21% , the stagnant difference in the averages of the survey results.
A survey of 50,000 people by YouGov, calculating the distribution of the vote in constituencies, predicts that Labor would obtain 422 seats today compared to 140. The same firm points out in its historical series on politicians that Farage is more popular than Starmer.
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