Channel 4 debate

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The second debate is on Sunday July 17, at 7pm, on STV. It can be watched live or on catch-up on the STV Player. The Channel 4 debate was the last to be announced, but will be the first to be held, on Friday, July 15, at 7.30pm. The debate will be held live, will last 90 minutes, and will simply ask: “Who's the right choice to be Britain's next Prime Minister?”.

There are now five MPs left in the running: Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss, Tom Tugendhat and Kemi Badenoch.

Then the final decision will be made in September, and it is thought a new leader will be selected by Monday 5 September. The show will be available to watch live on ITV Hub and then on the streamer’s catch-up service following its airing. Sky News will be home to a third debate on Monday 18 July 2022, which will also be streamed on YouTube.

THE five Tory leadership candidates faced an awkward moment during tonight's debate when Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murthy asks the audience to raise their ...

On-screen, it appeared that no audience member put their hand up while the audience remained silent. The humiliating moment saw debate host Krishnan Guru-Murthy ask the audience to raise their hand if they had trust in politicians. THE five Tory leadership candidates faced an awkward moment during tonight's debate when Channel 4's Krishnan Guru-Murthy asks the audience to raise their hand if they trust politicians.

SKY News is set to host the first TV debate with the Tory leadership candidates vying to replace Boris Johnson.

It will be shown live on the Sky News channel. It will be available to watch on the STV Player in Scotland and live on STV. It will be shown on Channel 4's streaming platform and on the live television channel.

Host Krishnan Guru-Murthy had asked the candidates to give a yes or no answer on whether they believed Boris Johnson is honest. Kemi Badenoch replied "sometimes ...

You can donate to help feed the hungry below - including one way that doesn't cost you a penny. Krishnan Guru-Murthy then turned to the audience as he asked them to raise their hands if, after what they had heard, they trust politicians. Host Krishnan Guru-Murthy had asked the candidates to give a yes or no answer on whether they believed Boris Johnson is honest.

But as Tugendhat delivered his first answer the debate was hit by technical issues. The candidates had been asked "Why should the public trust any of you?" by ...

You can donate to help feed the hungry below - including one way that doesn't cost you a penny. @ScrewedPolitics said: "The broadcast is suffering from irritating technical glitches. @ailsybabe asked: "Technical difficulties? #C4LeaderDebate." Tugendhat said trust had been collapsing in politics and in his party. The candidates had been asked "Why should the public trust any of you?"

'Woke presenter' Krishnan Guru-Murthy criticised by Conservatives who said 'candidates can barely get a word in'

Channel 4 said it used a vetting process from Survation, the polling firm. None of them put their hands up when asked if they trusted politicians, while three raised their hands when they were pressed on whether they felt the Conservative leadership candidates were offering enough support on the cost-of-living crisis. But this did not stop Conservative MPs from questioning the decision to hold the first televised contest on the channel.

Head-to-head sees open arguments over tax and identity politics, with no candidate willing to say Boris Johnson is honest.

A separate spat saw Mordaunt and Badenoch clash with visible enmity about the former’s views on trans rights. A separate show of hands after a debate on energy bills saw just three people say they felt politicians were doing enough to help people. A long section on trust saw none of the five willing say whether Johnson was honest. When Truss argued that better monetary policy would mitigate inflation even with tax cuts, Sunak snapped: “Liz, we have to be honest. In an earlier Zoom-based Q&A, hosted by the Conservative Home website, Truss sought to regain the initiative in the race by promising to scrap a planned rise in corporation tax and suspend green energy levies, costing more than £20bn a year overall. It’s as simple as that.”

This first debate will air in a special Channel 4 programme called Britain's Next PM: The Conservative Leadership Debate at 7pm on Friday.

The ITV debate will also be available to watch live and on catch-up on ITV Hub, while Sky’s debate will also be streamed live on its YouTube channel. Friday’s debate will be shown live on Channel 4, and will also be available on the All4 catch-up service. This means the next prime minister will be chosen by only 200,000 people, and it is this group the candidates will be appealing to in the TV debates.

The five Tory MPs competing to become the next prime minister came head to head in the contest's first televised leadership debate. | ITV National News.

ITV will host the second on Sunday at 7pm. We need to make sure we can trust our politicians,” he said. That’s the real question for all of us.” There were a number of reasons that I resigned but trust and honesty was part of that,” he continued. “We need a break from the Johnson years. That cannot be allowed to happen.”

Kemi Badenoch, Penny Mordaunt, Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss and Tom Tugendhat shared their views on taxes, the cost of living, the NHS, gender identity and more. We' ...

Unfortunately we’ve not been immediately able to find any information about the 180 innovations Ms Mordaunt described, and it’s unclear what types of innovations she was referring to. According to Ofgem, environmental and social obligation costs account for around £153 of an average direct debit energy bill under the current price cap. However, she has signalled that, unlike some of her competitors, she would not reverse the recent 1.25 percentage point increase to National Insurance. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has published a round-up of some of the proposals and how much they could cost. The RAC has previously referred to filling up a 55 litre fuel tank when talking about the cost of fuel for an average family car. Tax was also a key topic for Ms Mordaunt, who said that her pledge to halve VAT on fuel would save the average family £10 every time they fill up.