Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer were grilled by The Sun readers in a fiery live streamed Q&A hosted by Harry Cole on Monday night.
The Prime Minister batted questions on immigration, housing and NHS wait times while defending his handling of the betting scandal that has rocked the Conservative party’s election campaign.
The Labour leader was asked how he could be trusted after he was “happy to lie to us” about Jeremy Corbyn, and answered questions on education, JK Rowling and Brexit.
Earlier on Monday the Prime Minister laid out his plan to boost London as the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats suffered an election blow with a poll showing Labour opening up a 33-point lead in the capital.
With 10 days to go before the election, the Savanta survey for the Mile End Institute at Queen Mary University of London finds 55 per cent of Londoners planning to vote Labour, 22 per cent Tory, ten per cent for the Liberal Democrats, eight per cent for Reform UK, and five per cent for the Greens.
More than a quarter (29 per cent) of Londoners who voted for the Liberal Democrats in 2019 said they would now vote Labour.
It comes as Mr Sunak set out his vision to ease the housing crisis, revive the ailing hospitality sector and get more civil servants back into Whitehall.
In an exclusive interview with the Standard, the Prime Minister vowed to take the axe to “burdens, regulations and red tape” strangling restaurants, bars, pubs and theatres particularly in London.
