Last night’s leaders debate was a scrappy affair. The format meant that neither leader was able to get going properly and that there was little back and forth between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn. It is hard to imagine that it will have changed many voters’ minds. Indeed, a snap YouGov poll suggested that it had effectively been a draw, with 51 percent saying that Johnson had performed better and 49 percent saying Corbyn had.
The debate made clear how the Tories intend to attack Corbyn for the rest of the campaign. They are going to go after him for being unable to say which side he would campaign on in the second referendum he wants and they are constantly going to question what he is going to have to give Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish Nationalists in a hung parliament to obtain their support.
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