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Rishi Sunak said NHS waiting lists were coming down and Beth Rigby’s comeback was simply brutal
There’s still three weeks to go until polling day and it makes you wonder just how much worse the election campaign can get for Rishi Sunak.
Here’s how bad it got on Wednesday night when he appeared with Beth Rigby on a Sky News leader election special, and just as you’d expect (and hope), Rigby really wasn’t messing around.
In particular when Sunak insisted that he was delivering on his pledge to bring NHS waiting lists down.
First of all he tried to blame NHS staff for going on strike (bad idea, it turned out) then he just tried to obfuscate. And Rigby wasn’t having any of it.
Look at Rishi Sunak's smug face when he blames junior doctors ffor NHS waiting lists
Rishi Sunak, "Everyone knows the impact industrial actions has on NHS waiting lists"
Beth Rigby, "So it's the doctors fault?"
*uproar from the audience*
BR, "PM, the point is, when you made… pic.twitter.com/6iVf8FvAur
— Farrukh (@implausibleblog) June 12, 2024
Boom!
Oi, Rishi – tryin' to blame #NHS staff for your own failures, are we? The nerve of you, sittin' there with that smug grin, acting like the junior doctors are solely responsible for the ballooning waiting lists. You made all these grand promises, even with the industrial…
— Candice Holmes (@hol40900) June 12, 2024
Sunak: "What you have to remember is the bad stuff is someone else's fault and the good stuff is down to me"
Rigby: "Is there any good stuff?"
Sunak: "Not really, no"
— Dougal D'Arcy (@MrDarcyDog) June 12, 2024
Poor Rishi Sunak, thought he’d get away with gaslighting Beth Rigby, ooppssss
Blaming NHS staff for him not meeting his waiting list pledges
So Beth opens a can of whoop ass on him with statistics he can’t argue #BattleForNO10 pic.twitter.com/5C286NNo5s
— kerry ✊Save Our NHS (@hewitson10) June 12, 2024
Let’s be crystal clear
NHS waiting lists rose progressively since the Tories entered government 14 years ago.
The first doctors’ strike was 13-16 March 2023, 1 year ago https://t.co/H9XFesQ8Hg pic.twitter.com/8UCnvKB0F8
— Stefan Marciniak (@Prof_Marciniak) June 13, 2024
And it didn’t get any better for Sunak, especially when Rigby did this, earning the biggest round of applause of the night.
Biggest applause of the night Beth Rigby-
“PM isn’t the truth that your problem is broken promises, ….it’s Brexit, it’s migration, the NHS was supposed to get better, people remember the £350m quid on side of a bus, it’s levelling up
A catalogue of broken promises”#SkyDebate pic.twitter.com/PVJLRfhFXa
— Deirdre Heenan (@deirdreheenan) June 12, 2024
To conclude …
Rigby shook Sunak like a terrier with a rat. You can see what a shock it is to him at the end of this clip. He's not used to the press being fully on top of the facts and having no time for his works of fiction.
And that's a failing the press should address. https://t.co/homyFoaZ9S
— chiller ★ (@chiller) June 13, 2024
And this, very much this.
Beth @BethRigby on Fire . Brilliant and forensic but still gracious and good humoured. Master class
— emily m (@maitlis) June 12, 2024
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Source @implausibleblog