the live swoon of the debate moderator to succeed Johnson

The Fainting of the presenter abruptly ended this Tuesday the second debate Among the candidates to succeed Boris Johnson as head of the British Government and the Conservative Party, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.

The face to face, organized by the newspaper The Sun and the new channel TalkTV, It was being as heated as the rest of the confrontations between the candidates for the conservative leadership, when an unexpected event forced the duel to be settled.

A crash followed by a “Oh my God!” that Truss let out, who was being focused by the camera, alerted the viewers of the broadcast.

Immediately Truss was seen approaching the place where the moderator was, the head of Policy of TalkTV, Kate McCann, with a face of horror, moment in which the live broadcast was cut off.

“A Medical Problem”

After several minutes of anxiety, a spokesman for News UK – a group to which he belongs The Sun– reported that he had registered “a medical problem” in the study.

Finally, some three-quarters of an hour later, TalkTV reported that McCann had suffered a fade and the debate would not resume.

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“McCann fainted live and although he is fine, the medical advice is that we should not continue with the debate,” the channel said in a statement, in which he apologized to the audience.

He also stressed that it had not been a security incident and that the candidates were fine.

a heated debate

Until that moment, a little more than half an hour of confrontation had elapsed, in which Sunak and Truss openly clashed again over their plans for the British economy.

The former Economy Minister again accused, as he has done throughout the campaign, his rival of claim an “immoral” tax cut.

“What is morally wrong is asking our children and our grandchildren to foot our bill. Liz (Truss) wants to lower taxes on big business and I don’t think that’s fair,” Sunak said.

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For her part, the Foreign Minister, who is far ahead in the polls carried out among members of the Conservative Party – who are the ones who will have to vote to elect their new leader, who will automatically become prime minister – reiterated that the plans of Sunak will make the country “less competitive”.

“If we enter a recession, we will receive less in taxes. And the forecast is that we will go into a recession, we have the lowest growth of the G7 countries,” Truss criticized.

Militant “Tories” will begin voting in August for Johnson’s successor, whose name will be announced on September 5.