Metro (UK)

Debate over, what do we know that we didn’t already?

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■ Tuesday’s TV debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn was a very unenlighen­ing event.

Neither were remotely convincing on where all these fantasy billions they intend to spend are coming from.

Boris’s assurances regarding the future of the NHS and Jeremy’s about Labour’s anti-Semitism crisis rang hollow in the face of overwhelmi­ng and frightenin­g contradict­ory evidence.

Jeremy’s four-day week proposal sounded loopy and Boris’s denial that Brexit would destroy the Union simply garbage, while Jeremy’s major mistake was not to say which side of Brexit Labour would support. Each presented a concoction of spin and castles in the air. I won’t be voting for either of them. Alex, Newcastle upon Tyne

■ There was no winner in the leaders’ debate, just a reminder that we need new young leaders with real ideas if we want change. Jimmy, Fife

■ I won’t be voting Labour but it was clear, as fact checkers confirmed, that Boris Johnson lied over the Tories building 40 new hospitals, lied over Labour’s plans to raise corporatio­n tax to the highest in Europe and lied about there being no border in the Irish Sea under his Brexit deal. Simon Jones, Stanmore

■ I was very disappoint­ed that Jeremy Corbyn was not taken to task about nationalis­ing industry. S Watson, Leicesters­hire

■ I felt it was very unfair for a profession­al politician like Jeremy Corbyn to agree to debate a man so utterly incompeten­t and unprepared for the task as Boris Johnson.

Johnson is like a child with a colander on their head running around telling everyone that they’re a soldier.

It is embarrassi­ng and disrespect­ful to the country for the Conservati­ves to have such consistent­ly weak leadership.

Corbyn probably deserves to be prime minister if only because he seems to be the only person qualified for the job. Graeme, Sunderland

■ I didn’t watch the debate. If I want to see a circus there is a better one on the common. I voted to leave the EU and do not want to live in a country like Venezuela, so my decision is made. AG, Surrey

■ I am concerned Boris Johnson has become a cross between Tommy Cooper and Ronnie Corbett, while Jeremy Corbyn continues to struggle with his pair of lopsided specs. Pauline, Warrington

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