Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer are set to go head-to-head in the first televised leaders’ debate of the General Election campaign tonight (Tuesday June 4).
The hour-long debate, broadcast on ITV, will take place in front of a studio audience. It will be moderated by Julie Etchingham, who led the ITV election debates in 2015, 2017 and 2019.
It comes exactly a month before voters across the nation take to the polls for the general election on July 4. Michael Jermey, ITV’s director of news and current affairs, said of today's debate: “Millions of viewers value the election debates.
They provide a chance to see and hear the party leaders set out their pitch to the country, debate directly with each other and take questions from voters.
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