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00:00The final debate, ahead of the UK election, was a fiery exchange.
00:07If you listen to people in the audience across the country more often, you might not be quite so out of touch.
00:11Mark my words, your taxes are going up if he is in charge.
00:16As Prime Minister Rishi Sunak desperately tried to claw back ground in the polls,
00:21he sought to accuse the Labor leader Keir Starmer of planning tax rises
00:25and of having a lax stance on illegal immigration.
00:29Do you know where they come from? Iran, Syria, Afghanistan.
00:33So when Keir Starmer says he's going to return people, is he going to sit down?
00:37Are you going to sit down with the Iranian ayatollahs?
00:39Are you going to try and do a deal with the Taliban?
00:41It's completely nonsensical what you are saying.
00:45Sunak said if he wins, his plan is to deport some asylum seekers to Rwanda,
00:50but Starmer fired back, pointing to the record numbers of people that have come in on Sunak's watch.
00:56Working with a comfortable lead, the Labor Party leader focused on integrity.
01:00Referring to the recent scandal involving Conservative Party officials
01:04having allegedly placed bets on the election date,
01:07he said he showed leadership where Sunak had not.
01:10I think over the last 14 years, politics has become too much about self-entitlement
01:15and MPs thinking about what they can get for themselves.
01:19And one of the important choices and the thing that I would like to do
01:23if I'm elected Prime Minister is to reset politics so that politics returns to public service.
01:29According to a YouGov snap poll after the debate,
01:32the two leaders tied in their performance, which will likely not be enough to sway the polls overall,
01:37that have Labor comfortably on track to win a majority and end 14 years of conservative rule.