On July 4th, the British will elect their House of Commons and thus also their Prime Minister. Yesterday evening, the incumbent and his challenger met in a TV duel. What can we learn from this?
“Election campaigns are poetry, but governing is prose,” New York’s former governor Mario Cuomo once said. One thing is clear after yesterday’s live duel between the two prime ministerial candidates on British television: Neither Rishi Sunak nor Keir Starmer are particularly talented poets. Four insights that the sometimes chaotic debate brought: