Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer grilled live by readers in Sun election showdown

RISHI Sunak and Keir Starmer will be grilled live by readers in The Sun’s election showdown from 5.30pm this afternoon.

You can watch the clash live on thesun.co.uk, our YouTube channel and on our social media accounts.

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Rishi Sunak is first up in tonight’s Never Mind the Ballots clash[/caption]

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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will also face a grilling[/caption]

Our Political Editor Harry Cole is grilling the PM first before taking on Labour leader Sir Keir.

Both Rishi and Keir are facing the questions YOU care about on the Never Mind The Ballots Election Showdown.

The back-to-back interviews will be among the final chances for both sides to set out their stalls and defend their manifesto pledges.

Tonight’s clash comes after Rishi’s hopes of the betting scandal dying down were shattered.

Yesterday the Gambling Commission fingered another top Tory for allegedly putting a flutter on the timing of the General Election.

The party’s chief data officer Nick Mason became the fourth Tory probed by the watchdog.

It is also understood the commission has widened its inquiries to investigate whether party insiders used third parties to place bets.

Sources claim the Gambling commission has identified more persons of interest.

Mason, Tory official Tony Lee and candidates Craig Williams and Laura Saunders are already under investigation.

The latter pair are still on the election campaign trail as official Tory parliamentary hopefuls, while Mason and Lee are on leave.

Shadow Education Secretary ­Bridget Phillipson told the BBC there was “genuine disgust” among voters over the allegations.

Meanwhile, the Lib Dems called on Mr Sunak to intervene personally, by ordering a Cabinet Office inquiry into the reports.

A spokesman for the Gambling Commission said: “This is an ­ongoing investigation and we cannot provide any further details at this time.”