The moment when the debate on TV between the UK’s Conservative candidates was interrupted by the presenter’s fainting

The second debate between the conservative candidates for the head of the British Government, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, was urgently interrupted this Tuesday due to a “medical problem” in the television studio. The presenter fainted and collapsed on the lectern she was using.

The debate, organized by the newspaper The Sun and the new channel TalkTV, faced Truss and Sunak to the questions of several readers of the newspaper and the moderator of the space, Kate McCann, when suddenly a loud noise was heard in the broadcast.

The foreign minister, who was being targeted by the camera, shouted “oh my God!” and she threw her hands to her face with a gesture of horror.

Then, the candidate to relieve the prime minister, Boris Johnson, approached the place where the presenter was, at which time the broadcast was cut off.

Newscaster Kate McCann

The debate immediately went off the air and a message appeared on the screen that read: “We regret the interruption of this program.

“We are working hard to fix the issue and will be back to normal scheduling soon.”

A group spokesperson News UK -owner of the “Sun” told the British media that the event was due to a “medical problem”, and expressed his hope that the face-to-face could be resumed soon.

According to BBCciting “a well-informed source,” the debate presenter fainted and collapsed on the lectern she was using.

A spokesman for TalkTV stated: “Kate McCann passed out on air tonight and while she is fine, the medical advice was that we should not continue the debate. We apologize to our viewers and listeners.”

McCann joined the TalkTV as a political editor after nearly four years as a political correspondent for Sky News. When he changed journalistic companies, he said that many colleagues, both on screen and behind the scenes, had “left a really good job” to join the company. News UK because they were “willing to take risks.”

At the time of the incident, both candidates were talking about Ukraine in this new duelafter yesterday’s acrimonious debate in the BBC.

It is still unknown if the broadcast will be able to continue after what happened.

(With information from EFE)

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