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The Rest Is Politics

261. Sunak vs Starmer: Who won?

The Rest Is Politics

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News, Politics, Government

4.511.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Who emerged victorious from the first leadership debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer? Was ITV's format too restrictive? Where does the election go from here? Join Rory and Alastair as they answer all these questions and more in the wake of the first TV leadership debate. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, receive our exclusive newsletter, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestispolitics. TRIP UK TOUR: To buy tickets for our October Election Tour, just head to www.therestispolitics.com 🌏 Get our exclusive NordVPN deal here ➼ https://nordvpn.com/restispolitics It’s risk-free with Nord’s 30-day money-back guarantee! ✅ Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: restispolitics@gmail.com Video Editor: Teo Ayodeji-Ansell Social Producer: Jess Kidson Assistant Producer: Fiona Douglas Producer: Nicole Maslen Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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dipers at a major supermarket today. For chicken worth dipping, it better be Bird's Eye. Welcome to the Restless Politics Special Post Election Debate,

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Is you with me Rory Stewart?

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And me, Alist Campbell,

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with the debate that we had,

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Rory and I had last night about the debate between

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Ritchie Sunak and Kia Starma. So if you didn't watch us on YouTube

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immediately late last night here it is looking forward to hearing what you think of it and our reactions both from Alistair

1:15.6

who tells you about what it's like training Labor MPs to go into these debates by playing

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the other side and some rather depressed reflections from me on my experience and trying to perform or not perform these debates.

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Anyway, here it goes.

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And Anastor, what's your first thoughts?

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My first thought is that it's not going to change much.

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I thought the format was not great.

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