Viral videos, not leaders’ debates, could decide this election

You might well expect the final election debate, Johnson vs Corbyn head-to-head on primetime BBC, to provide the most watched moment of the election campaign. In fact, the clip on course to win that accolade has never even been aired on television, and if it were, some of its claims might fall well short of Ofcom broadcasting rules.

This video shows an actor called Rob Delaney, American star of the Channel 4 sitcom Catastrophe, promising to offer some home truths on the future of the NHS. He says that if the UK leaves the EU under Boris Johnson’s ‘disastrous’ Brexit deal, the NHS will be on the table: ‘Donald Trump is going to give it to Donald Trump Junior and Eric and Ivanka and they’re going to divvy it up and sell it to private pharmaceutical companies and the NHS as we know it will be gone.’ The way to stop this, he goes on to explain, is to vote Labour.