6 Jun 2024

UK: Sunak-Starmer debate, Farage's shaky campaign start

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 6 June 2024
Image: A woman throws a drink in the face of newly appointed leader of Britain's right-wing populist party, Reform UK, and the party's parliamentary candidate for Clacton, Nigel Farage, during his general election campaign launch in Clacton-on-Sea, eastern England, on June 4, 2024.

A woman throws a drink in the face of newly appointed leader of Reform UK, Nigel Farage. Photo: BEN STANSALL

UK correspondent Matt Dathan joins Kathryn to look at the first TV debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer, the (milk)shaky start Nigel Farage has had to his campaign after he made a shock decision to stand for the right-wing Reform UK party and the confusion over whether veteran Labour MP Diane Abbott would be allowed to stand for the party in the seat she's held for 37 years.

Matt Dathan is Home Affairs Editor at The Times.