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General election live: Sunak and Starmer agree first head-to-head election TV debate next week - BBC News General election live: Sunak and Starmer agree first head-to-head election TV debate next week - BBC News
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Here's a bit more on ITV's announcement that Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer's first TV debate will take place next Tuesday at 21:00. David Henderson
The hour-long debate will be moderated by Julie Etchingham, who moderated debates in 2015, 2017 and 2019. It will take place live in front of a studio audience. BBC Scotland correspondent, reporting from Edinburgh
It will be the first of a number of debates between party leaders ahead of the election on 4 July. Over in Scotland, SNP leader John Swinney is out on campaign trail and kicked things off today by riding the Levenmouth Rail Link, which reopens 5 miles (8km) of line through Fife.
This £116m project aims to reconnect towns cut off by
Beeching-era cuts.
(As a reminder, these cuts took place during the 1960s when a series of route closures and service changes were made as part of the restructuring of the nationalised railway system in Great Britain.)
Swinney’s calling for UK Labour to “follow Scotland’s
lead” by bringing rail services under public ownership. He’s demanding that they “end austerity” with major new spending
on infrastructure.
All this, you’ll note, assumes Labour is cleared for a win at the general election. It’s a recurring theme in this SNP campaign.
Swinney says his party will force Labour to the left at
Westminster.
So his pitch to the voters is clear: the Tories and Labour
are two sides of the same coin with identical plans for government - meaning a vote
for the SNP will give Scots a stronger voice in the UK Parliament, whoever
wins the election.
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