The second debate between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, conservative candidates for the head of the British government, was interrupted after the journalist who moderated the meeting, Kate McCann, fainted. The Foreign Minister was responding to the opponent about the tax increase, the funding of the national health service and the state of the economy when a noise that was heard in the study interrupted her. Dismayed, Liz Truss left the pulpit where she was speaking and went to help Kate McCann.
The leadership debate just went off the air after a sharp clash pic.twitter.com/FpM9O0Q3G8
— Alexander Brown (@AlexofBrown) July 26, 2022
At this time, the transmission of the meeting between the two rulers – who seek to convince the Conservative Party to promote them to the position that Boris Johnson has resigned – was replaced by an image on a black background with the message: “We regret the interruption of this program. We are working hard to fix the issue and will be back to normal scheduling soon.”
A statement posted on Twitter by TalkTV, host of the debate alongside The Sun newspaper, confirmed that Kate McCann (who had replaced The Sun’s political editor Harry Cole after he tested positive for covid-19) had lost consciousness. and that face-to-face would not resume. “Even though she’s fine, the medical advice was that we should not continue the debate. We apologize to our viewers and listeners,” wrote the official account of the television channel on the social network. Since then, normal transmission of the channel has been resumed.
Kate McCann passed out on air tonight and although she is fine, the medical advice was that we should not continue the debate. We apologize to our viewers and listeners.
— TalkTV (@TalkTV) July 26, 2022
As with the first debate between Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, which took place Monday night on BBC One, the hot topic was taxes. The former Minister of Foreign Affairs considered that the proposal of the former Governor of the Treasury of raising taxes for British social security and thus paying off debts is “morally wrong”.
“I think it’s morally wrong right now, when families are struggling to pay for food, for us to tax ordinary people when we said we wouldn’t in our manifesto and when it wasn’t necessary,” he said. Liz Truss. Rishi Sunak clearly answered: “Morally wrong is asking our children and grandchildren to pay the bills that we are not prepared to take on.”
Asked by the moderator how she would get enough tax-free money to strengthen the NHS, Liz Truss simplified: the money invested by general taxes would be enough, with the values practiced without the ascent proposed by Rishi Sunak. But the former finance minister countered, arguing that the financing of the health system can only be guaranteed by raising taxes. That was the right thing to do.”
Source: Observadora
