After both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn received a rough ride on Friday in the Question Time leaders election special, tonight it was the turn of Nicola Sturgeon and Tim Farron.
The pair faced questions from a live studio audience in Edinburgh. The location proved problematic for the Liberal Democrat leader who had to fend off questions on why he supported a second EU referendum but not a second Scottish independence referendum.
However, it was Nicola Sturgeon who received the more hostile reception. Although the First Minister put in a confident performance, she was repeatedly quizzed by dissatisfied voters on her party’s poor record on education. One audience member put it particularly bluntly when they said:
‘You said you want to be judged on education so on that basis shouldn’t you resign?’
Sturgeon also struggled on the issue of Scottish independence. She was asked twice to promise that in the event of IndyRef2, the result would be respected for a significant period of time – such as 25 years.
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