Starmer accuses Sunak of calling elections after knowing that the situation in the United Kingdom will get worse

June 5 () –

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, and the leader of the opposition, Keir Starmer, held their first televised debate this Tuesday night with a view to the general elections on July 4 and in which the Labor politician has accused the president to call early elections knowing that his economic and immigration plan will not work.

“If you believe that things are going to improve towards the second half of this year, why have you called them now? You have called them now because you know, and I’m going to ask you this, you know that inflation is going to rise again, you know that energy prices are going to rise again in the autumn,” said Starmer.

During their interventions, both candidates have spoken about their plans to address the high numbers of migration, the long waiting lists in the National Health System (NHS) and about taxes, according to the British newspaper. ‘The Guardian’.

Regarding the controversial law that allows migrants to be deported to Rwanda and the possibility that the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will block it, Starmer has defended that remaining in the organization, while Sunak has opened the door, as he has done in other times, to abandon it.

“I am very clear, I believe that all our plans comply with our international obligations, but if I am forced to choose between protecting our borders and the security of our country, or a foreign court, I will choose the security of our country at all times,” Sunak has expressed.

Starmer, for his part, has assured that he wants a country “respected on the international scene” and not a “pariah that is not aligned with International Law.”

Following this, the Labor leader has attacked the Tories’ management during the 14 years they have been in power, and has attacked Sunak for not taking responsibility for the high costs of living or long waiting times in the NHS. .

The prime minister, on the other hand, has assured that Labor will raise taxes on families by 2,000 million pounds (about 2,300 million euros), while he has promised to lower them; Starmer has defended that these increases will be very concrete, while the figures presented by Sunak are a “fantasy”.

“Labor will raise your taxes. It’s in their DNA. Your job, your car, your pension: Labor will tax it,” said Sunak, who has also questioned Starmer’s ability to deal with the country’s problems.

The debate has not ended with a clear winner, according to analysts, which is why Labor continues to appear clearly prominent in the polls and aspires to return to Downing Street after more than a decade.