General election 2017: Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May, face TV questioning
General election 2017: Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May, face TV questioning: In the program Mr Corbyn was quizzed about his Past campaigning in Northern Ireland, foreign policy views, and tax-raising plans.
Conversely Mrs May, defended the social care reforms initiated by her and was repeatedly asked if she had changed her mind on Brexit.
Earlier Mrs May had declined to take part in a head to head counter and the leaders did not appear together.
After winning a coin toss Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn chose to be first up in the Battle for Number 10 show.
During a Q&A session with the studio audience, a small business owner attacked Mr Corbyn’s “ruthless short-sighted policies” which included increasing corporation tax and putting VAT on private school fees. To this the labour leader replied that “This country is badly divided between the richest and the poorest” the Labour leader questioned the man and asked him whether he was “happy” that certain children were going school hungry and are being taught in “supersized” classrooms.
An audience member pressed Mr Corbyn on his earlier campaigning in Northern Ireland and an audience member accused him of attending commemoration for the members of IRA which is an Irish paramilitary group.
The Labour leader replied by saying that he had been seeking a “dialogue” in the 1970s and 1980s and the labour leader said that he had marked a minute’s silence “for everyone who died in Northern Ireland“.
He would not be drawn on whether he would order a drone strike against a terrorist plotting overseas to attack the UK.
The Labour leader replied that “I would want know the circumstances, You can’t answer a hypothetical question without the evidence. It is a completely hypothetical question.”
Jeremy Corbyn was also pressed on Brexit one from a Leave voter calling for immigration controls and another from an unhappy Remain supporter.
In answering to the first question, Mr Corbyn refused to set a target for migration numbers and said that Labour would act to prevent the undercutting of wages.
However he then told the Remain supporter Labour had to “accept the reality of the referendum.”
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