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Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots, the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Oscar Edmondson and I'm joined today by James Heel and Isabel Hardman.

So last night saw a relatively stale television spectacle which commentators have described as tired, limp and lifeless

and no I'm not talking about England's display against Denmark,

but the question time leaders debate on the BBC. Joking aside Isabel, even though there were no

revelatory moments, you say your piece on Coffey House.

You do argue this is probably the best debate of the campaign so far.

Could you take us through some of the top lines?

Yeah and I also think that was one of the best intro to

Coffey House shots so far so thanks for setting us up with that. Thank you very much

as well. I do try. I mean the reason I thought it was the best was that there was actually space to talk about things

it wasn't like the first I TV debate where it was how are you going to solve the

myriad problems in the NHS in 45 seconds which I think left everyone feeling a bit as though they

just eaten a KFC not very satisfied and this one did give space because you know there wasn't a head to head between leaders because they came on one after the other because they had half an hour and the audience questions were being marshaled by Theona Bruce who had some pretty,

I wouldn't say brutal follow-ups.

There were incisive follow-up questions

to really pin the leaders down.

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