Sunak and Starmer talk over each other during heated ITV leaders’ debate
The IndependentGet the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer have been reprimanded for talking over each other during a fiery ITV leaders’ debate. “Gentlemen please, we’re just going to take a pause there.” After a commercial break, the host warned them: “Just a little information for both of our candidates here, please, an appeal from me, not to speak over one another. “That was a gentle reminder, it may not be so gentle next time.” One viewer posted on X: “This debate is absolutely awful. I have zero confidence it will give a single voter any help in making a choice.” Another said: “Julie, please get hold of this, stop letting him talk over you.” Later, as the debate over immigration got heated, the Prime Minister raised his voice asking the Labour leader: “What are you going to do with illegal migrants?” Etchingham intervened: “Please gentleman, we will lower our voices.”