UK Prime Minister Debate Stopped After Presenter Faints On-Air; Watch Liz Truss Live Reaction – Update
26.07.2022 - 21:47
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UPDATE, 11:24 AM: The latest TV clash between UK PM hopefuls Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss came to an abrupt halt today after presenter Kate McCann fainted on-air.
The recently launched conservative channel Talk TV from Rupert Murdoch announced the end of the debate mere minutes after viewers heard a loud crash off camera as current Foreign Secretary Truss was answering a question:
Kate McCann fainted on air tonight and although she is fine, the medical advice was that we shouldn't continue with the debate. We apologise to our viewers and listeners.
— TalkTV (@TalkTV) July 26, 2022
While producers tried to figure out what to do about the second face-off between the ex-cabinet colleagues, former Chancellor Sunak and frontrunner Truss wasted no time in taking their respective pitches in the high stakes showdown to the nearest voters they could find. As Spectator deputy political editor editor Katy Balls made clear from the London TV studio:
Sunak and Truss now chatting with the audience at the Talk TV debate pic.twitter.com/NBct9h8K6a
— Katy Balls (@katyballs) July 26, 2022
PREVIOUSLY, 11:08 AM: Tonight’s UK Prime Ministerial debate has been paused after a loud crash was heard midway through the show on the Rupert Murdoch-backed Talk TV network. Scroll down for the moment it happened.
A spokesman for Talk TV operator News UK said there had been a “medical issue, not a security issue, and the candidates are okay.”
ITV News Political Correspondent Carl Dinnen tweeted that he understood debate presenter Kate McCann, Senior Political Correspondent for The Telegraph, had been taken ill. She was supposed to be presenting with The Sun Political Editor Harry Cole, but he pulled out before the debate after testing positive for COVID-19.
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