(ANSA) – LONDON, JUL 26 – The second television debate, hosted tonight by Talk TV (after the first one aired yesterday on the BBC) between Liz Truss and Rishi, was interrupted in the middle due to the sudden fainting of the presenter Kate McKann Sunak, contenders in the final ballot of the challenge for the succession of Boris Johnson as leader of the British Conservative Party and next premier of the United. The journalist suddenly collapsed as the foreign minister – and current frontrunner of the challenge – was talking about the war in Ukraine and arguing with Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
Suddenly there was the sound of a thud on live TV, while the anchorwoman was not framed. Truss put on a petrified expression, then shouted “oh my God!” and then she approached McKann along with Sunak. At that point the broadcast was suspended. And shortly after the broadcaster announced the cancellation of the final part for reasons of caution (not without apologizing to the public), while assuring that the journalist had in the meantime recovered: nothing serious, as the doctors decreed.
The two Tory contenders in the evening released messages of good wishes addressed to “Kate”, who should have moderated the program with Harry Cole, political editor of the Sun, but was left alone in the end, having Cole forfeited in extremis after having tested positive for Covid . In the part of the debate aired, Sunak and Truss have returned to clash in particular on economic policy (with the former Chancellor of the Exchequer of Indian family origin who is also in favor of taxing the profits of big business more in times of crisis and the Foreign Minister, supported by the internal ultra-right, vice versa contrary), but in a much softer tone than the duel hosted by the BBC. Confronting the contents, without yesterday’s personal attacks in a context in which the 42-year-old Sunak did not fail to make a friendly reference to the birthday of his rival, who just turned 47 today.
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Source: Ansa
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