Another leaders debate to be live streamed at 7 pm tonight.
Stuff: Jacinda Ardern and Judith Collins go round three in The Press Leaders Debate tonight
Jacinda Ardern and Judith Collins are in Christchurch tonight for the South Island’s only election debate, live on Stuff from 7pm.
It will be moderated on Tuesday evening by The Press editor Kamala Hayman and Stuff’s political editor Luke Malpass. The Press is part of the Stuff family of newspapers.
The Press Leaders Debate will be held with a lively sold-out audience of 750 at the James Hay Theatre.
The debate will be split in half with a 15-minute intermission, when Stuff’s head of video Carol Hirschfeld will discuss the debate with Canterbury Employers Chamber of Commerce CEO Leeann Watson and Canterbury University senior political lecturer Dr Lindsey Te Ata o Tu MacDonald.
Henry Cooke will also live blog the debate here.
Casting the live stream worked for a short time but them went wonky so i mostly just listened to it streaming on my PC.
Ardern was generally very good. There was plenty of under-achievements she could have been challenged on but that wasn’t done very well.
This was Collins’ worst debate. She started too shouty, and then she seemed to fluctuate between loud and weak with a bit too much smarmy thrown in. Her repeated reference to her opponent as Miss Ardern sounds out of whack this century. Generally I think she didn’t come across very well for a lot of the debate.
Ardern attacked much less but when she did she made it count.
This won’t have anywhere near the audience as the televised debates, which is probably just as well for Collins and for National. Especially with their ongoing ructions in the party I don’t see how they can get close to Labour.