May v Corbyn: debate tactics explained by former top Tory aides

As prime minister and Labour leader get ready to face a TV grilling, a Conservative former spin doctor and special adviser lay out what’s at stakeOn the evening of the 2 April 2015, you could have cut the tension with a knife in the Thatcher room at Conservative campaign headquarters. That was where we had assembled the “war room”, packed full of Tory spinners and several cabinet ministers for the first TV election debate.The stakes could not have been higher. We were neck and