Quite the moment tonight. Never before in the history of our democracy has there been a head to head debate between the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition. As such, it’s very difficult to predict what impact it might have. #GE2019
The PM has most to lose, Corbyn to gain. Expectations will be high from voters for Boris Johnson. In many ways they still don’t know much about him but expect him to be funny and witty and dominant. But he really wasn’t stand out in the Tory debates earlier this year.
Corbyn meanwhile is good in these sort of debates, he’s had plenty of practice given the number of leadership challenges/hustings/tv debates he’s had to fight. So long as he keeps his cool.
In reality of course, both sides’ teams will cliip up the best bits of both and pump it out for various social media platforms, making linear debate largely irrelevant.
