Sunak ‘exploded Starmer’s claim to be credible prime minister’ in TV debate, says Gove

Gove: Sunak 'exploded Starmer's claim to be credible prime minister' in a TV debate.Source: Sky News

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00:00 Rishi Sulak needed to do something tonight to transform the race.

00:05 Whatever you thought of that debate, it didn't do that, did it?

00:08 Yes, it did. It exploded.

00:11 Keir Starmer's claim to be a credible candidate for Prime Minister

00:15 on migration, on the doctor's strike, on tax, on the economy,

00:19 on every single area that he was questioned on,

00:22 Starmer was found wanting.

00:24 When he was specifically pressed on the economy, he said,

00:27 "I'm not going to go into the details." He can't.

00:30 And then, what's supposed to be his flagship policy on climate,

00:34 he said that this great idea of his Great British Energy,

00:37 this new quango, would generate energy.

00:39 No, it won't. That is not Labour policy.

00:42 Ed Miliband will have been watching this with his head in his hands

00:46 as his own leader can't even recall what their climate policy is,

00:50 and Ed Miliband must have been thinking,

00:52 "Why didn't I stay on as leader? I'd have done better than that."