Boris and Corbyn go head to head

Watching Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn hammering away at each other in tonight's TV debate makes you wish for the golden era - if there ever was one - when political leaders spoke with eloquence and intelligence and conducted themselves in a respectful and dignified way. There is little dignity these days, just a mish-mash of claims and counter-claims about policies which will probably never be implemented. The two men clearly don't like each other and watching them is painful. This country needs uplifting. After nearly four years of Brexit confrontations, the nation is weary. The last thing we want is to watch two candidates for Number 10 Downing Street arguing like overgrown schoolboys, each claiming to know how to run a country but neither sounding remotely convincing. But one way or the other the election in less than a week's time HAS to produce a clear result. This country needs a prime minister with a majority mandate to confront all the problems, not just Brexit, that are sitting in the in-tray. It has to be Boris although the more I watch him on the campaign trail the more fearful I get of the sort of leadership he is going to provide.