Novara REACTS To 7-Party General Election BBC Debate

welcome we are five minutes away from the first seven party debate of this general election hosted by the BBC I'm Michael Walker um you're going to be getting my reactions throughout the debate and we have wonk extraordinaire is what I'm going to call you James meway joining us I'll take that you'll take that host of course of macro do podcast former adviser to John McDonald um James how are you feeling about this are you excited for this seven way I mean it's it's surely going to be more interesting than the main leaders debate I mean like once the election looks pretty much like a forgone conclusion Richie Stak seems to be working quite hard to make it even more of a foreg gone conclusion that lab is going to win the real fight is what happens underneath that so this should be more interesting right there's there's seven parties there representing genuinely different strands of opinion I'd expect a little bit more interest and you know to fight your way through seven people you're going have to be quite competive so hope hopefully not such a snoozefest yeah I think that's um a good point I mean I think when you watch the one of the reasons why the k r soon at debate was so boring is because both of them are trying to well especially K St is trying to avoid sort of making mistakes so they're both super conservative with this one you're going to have a lot of smaller parties who see this as a massive opportunity to just get heard to be in any way recognized so it does have a lot of opportunity to be a bit more um interesting um not so many Party leaders um this time so the Tories have Penny Morant laor have Angela R and the libdems have Daisy Cooper the reason they're not putting up their leaders is because I think they're worried it's going to be a bit chaotic and it wouldn't be prime ministerial to be having sort of be be ganged up by all of these smaller parties the greens will have their leader kadena um s SMP Steven Flynn pleed cry and reup yor and then reform Nigel farage is he going to be the big player in this debate James well he's probably going to try to be ...