UK voters grill May, Corbyn in last TV event of election

Bloomberg

The final television event of Britain’s general election campaign saw both Prime Minister Theresa May and her main challenger, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, take a pummeling from angry voters.
May has refused to directly debate Corbyn, and so the BBC’s “Question Time” featured the two leaders consecutively, with the prime minister going first. There was no gentle warming up, with the opening questioner accusing her of “broken promises and backtracking.”
It was the toughest audience May has faced in a campaign where her appearances have been tightly controlled, and it got a rise out of the prime minister. “I had the balls to call an election,” she retorted at one point, using distinctly unparliamentary language. May’s campaign has stumbled as the date of the election approaches, with Corbyn’s Labour Party closing in on her in the polls.
The prime minister is worried enough to have allowed Defense Secretary Michael Fallon to give an interview ruling out tax rises for higher earners, a promise that was left out of the election manifesto.
“We’re not in the business of punishing people for getting on, on the contrary we want people to keep more of their earnings,” Fallon told the Telegraph newspaper in an interview. “The only way they can be sure their taxes won’t rise is to vote Conservative.”