The non-debate of the non-leaders

As regards Brexit, at least, this week’s televised Leaders’ Debatelived up to its billing in every respect apart from the lack of any meaningful debate and the total absence of anything resembling leadership.As regards the former, some blame can be laid with the widely-criticised staging and format, which was lifeless and wooden, and encouraged – even forced – the participants to be confined to brief and largely unexamined slogans. Even so, the awful truth is that, whatever the format, we did ac