As many as eight million people are expected to tune into tonight’s BBC Brexit debate, where Boris Johnson, Sadiq Khan and Ruth Davidson will battle it out in their final attempt to win over voters ahead of the referendum. The last time Boris appeared in a TV debate, Remain’s ‘Operation batter Boris’ was mobilised in a misguided attempt to discredit the former Mayor of London. So can we expect more of the same tonight? On today’s Coffee House Shots, James Forsyth tells Fraser Nelson:
‘Ruth Davidson is a fierce debater. She is combative, she goes for people. It would be very surprising if she didn’t go for Boris. The one caution I would say is that there are senior figures in the ‘Remain’ campaign who accept that going for Boris as often as they did in the last debate didn’t actually work for them’.
The BBC debate kicks off tonight at 8pm, and you’ll be able to follow every word on our Spectator live blog later.
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