Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak went head-to-head in a debate in Nottingham ahead of the general election on July 4
The BBC spent more than £30,000 of licence fee payers' money hiring audience members for the TV general election debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer in Nottingham, it has been reported. The Express claims that the debate - held at Nottingham Trent University last night - involved an audience completely made up of paid-for audience members provided by a marketing company.
Get the latest Nottinghamshire politics news and election results straight to your phone by joining us on WhatsApp "So, when we arrived, quite a few people were given wristbands, and they were told that that meant that there was a chance that they will not be attending live. I think it's the same with a lot of these things that they oversubscribe because they know that they're going to get dropouts."
Once inside phones and handbags were taken away from the audience. The source said they were told "in no uncertain terms" not to heckle. "We were allowed to clap, we were allowed to mutter but we were not allowed to heckle," they said.
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