Sky News' Beth Rigby was praised for her tough line of questioning on tonight's live Battle For Number 10 debate - which put Labour leader Keir Starmer on the spot.
The political editor, who will also interview Rishi Sunak as part of the 90-minute programme, won applauds on X when she started the grilling with a brutal question about why Mr Starmer supported previous Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, and whether voters could trust his word.
In response, the former boss of the Crown Prosecution Service admitted he was "certain" Labour would lose the 2019 election under Corbyn. Viewers were quick to celebrate Beth's questions, with one tweeting: "@BethRigby is a force to be reckoned with! Good luck Rishi Sunak..."
Another viewer said: "Bloody hell Beth, taking no prisoners tonight is the theme tonight... #BattleForNo10.""Why did Beth rigby go so hard like that," tweeted a third.
"Not Beth coming for BLOOD in the first question," wrote another. It comes after Rishi Sunak's widely mocked comment that he had to 'go without' as a child so that his parents could put him through private education.
Rishi Sunak must be a leader, not just a managerIn an interview with ITV's Paul Brand - the same one he left last week's D-Day commemorations in Normandy for - the Prime Minister claimed he had to sacrifice having Sky TV as a boy when pushed for an answer about how he stays in touch with the general public. The richest Prime Minister in history laughed awkwardly as he was pressed on exactly what he went without so his mum and dad could afford the staggering boarding fees at Winchester College.
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"Oh, we went without lots of things because my parents wanted to put everything into our education and that was a priority," he said. But when asked what sort of things had to be sacrificed, he could only say "lots of things" before laughing.
When pressed again, the PM awkwardly said: “All sorts of things like lots of people. There'll be all sorts of things that I would've wanted as a kid that I couldn't have.” He added: “ Famously, Sky TV, so that was something that we never had growing up, actually.”