I agree that May has been poorly advised. Like it or not, we live in a presidential age and there is now an expectation that PMs and aspiring PM's participate in these debates - as flawed as they sometimes are. She was wrong footed by Corbyn's late decision to attend and was left with the...
I'm not sure why you have leapt to the assumption that I don't trust the BBC, or that I have 'a problem with trust in general'. I don't doubt that the BBC intended it to be a balanced audience and, generally, I think their coverage of politics is among the best - if not the best. However, they...
I would suggest that the answer to that was self-evident. Raucous applause and whooping for pretty much everything Jezza said (and to a lesser extent Caroline) and silence for Amber - not even a polite smattering of applause, which might be expected from the Tory voters in the room, had there...
Rudd didn't come out of it particularly well, but the audience was largely Momentum / Corbyn cheerleaders -not sure how the BBC managed to recruit them as a politically balanced group. Paul Nutall and Leanne Wood were the two weakest - both of them are embarrassingly poor really - Nutall is like...