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And James, last night we had the sky head to head.

Now, it was a head to head but they didn't actually have to speak to one another, which

I don't think is just a sign of the level of blue and blue at the moment when it comes

to Liz Truss versus Rishi Sunak.

But what do we learn from the debate?

To me at least, I think it seemed probably the toughest for both of the candidates, the

many of the debates I've had yet.

So when this debate was initially scheduled, I mean, the assumption was that most people

would have received their ballot papers by the time it took place and given that lots

of people operate off the theory that about half of the selector will return their ballot

paper straight away, you might well have had lots of people having voted, but because

of these concerns about the security of the ballots, some changes made, I was talking

to you one to remember this morning who had only just received their ballot today.

And I mean, that's not uncommon.

So perhaps it hit more on people better now.

This was obviously on sky, not on BBC.

And so that that will have its effect on the audience thing.

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