Who will be the UK's next PM? 5 candidates, 5 things - BBC News

Five Conservative candidates, one of whom will be selected to be the UK's next Prime Minister have clashed in a live BBC TV debate.

Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove, Sajid Javid and Rory Stewart had a lot to say about Brexit, the backstop and a bit about sheep farming.

It was a noisy, lively debate - here are five things that stood out.

[brianparker]

Who cares? The vast majority of us have no say, just a handful of old tories.

[Aliali-crid]

Smart move Boris😂 his Muslim great grandfather 😂😂 this guy made my day

[TheReubstar]

The format failed unfortunately. The debate was incoherent.

[lavr]

What a joke 😂😂😂😂😂
I'm married to immigrany, I have three half Chinese baby, my great grandfather was a Muslim who migrated to work here, I used live with sheep's and but we are United because of islamaphobia...

[Charlie_Ses]

A hopeless debate. The host was extremely rude, inturupting those trying to answer without giving them a chance to respond. The questions were farsical, and were written to suit the agenda of the BBC, rather than to try and help the electorate in this case e.g. Tory members. The BBC loses more and more respectability as each day passes, it's a crying shame.

[TheBukkitListChannel]

Muslim parents, Muslim grandparents, Chinese children, Islamophobia investigations... Will there ever be a conservative leader who stands up for the English people and the indigenous British as a whole??

[moim]

I don't know much about UK politics, but from this video, I realized that BBC is making fun of Conservative.

[MrB]

Usual clown show.
'I thought parliament would be a well oiled machine. Turned out to be a clown show'. George Galloway.

[Janlizbar]

It was very obvious that they were all terrified of offending anyone and ended up sitting on the fence about everything.

[Rickiton]

My son is chinese, me wife is turkish, me brother is afghanistani, me mum is mongolo, me dad is asian, me grandmother is african american, me granddad is from chad, his chad blood flows through me.
#relatable

[featherbrain]

I thought a debate was where someone was heard in full and was then replied to in the same manner?

[DrDrnk]

It appears no one bloody hell knows how to deal with brexit.

[jackryder-swrk]

This shower of Shite will be running (or do I mean ruining?) my Country

[RichyDYupYup]

What is Islamaphobia and why do the BBC keep pushing it as some kind of talking point?

[mattjames]

My greatest of grandfathers was a Viking

[thebatman]

When did Willem Defoe get into politics

[paxion]

BORIS JOHNSON WILL BE OUR NEXT PRIME MINISTER !

[CommanderAlpharocks]

What kind of stuff do people love to buy when in Italy but struggle to actually find in the 🇬🇧??

[unvaccinatedAndPureBlood]

Two sides of the coin is still the same coin!

It's an illusion, just remember that

[antonnotna]

The Virtue Signaling is out of control