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The TalkRADIO host questioned whether anyone who was "running scared" of facing BBC's Andrew Neil ahead of the election would be fit to run the country. She asked the Tory candidate: “Is anyone who is not willing to face tough questions from one of Britain’s toughest interviewer, is that person fit to be Prime Minister?” Mr Duncan Smith argued Boris Johnson would do "very well" facing whoever was as tough as Andrew Neil or the man himself.

He replied: “Look, I have no doubt at all that Boris Johnson would perform incredibly well whoever he is up against and when he’s up against them. “But the reality is we still got two weeks to go and I’m sure all these things will be dealt with in the course of the next two weeks.” He added his constituents were very much "fed up" by political debates on TV anyway, but Ms Hartley-Brewer blasted: “I’m sorry but I still think it’s important that people who want to be Prime Minister of this country will take to tough questioning over a period of time and lay out their arguments. “Otherwise, I’m sorry, but then they’re frit.” READ MORE: Election poll WARNING: How poll result is DANGEROUS for Boris Johnson

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Election 2019: Andrew Neil grilled Jeremy Corbyn on tax plans and anti-Semitism

Andrew Neil has been grilling political leaders this week ahead of the election. So far, both Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon have suffered excruciating interviews with tough questions from the BBC host. But Boris Johnson is yet to confirm a date of his appearance or whether he would face Mr Neil at all before December 12. The clash between the former Conservative leader and the TalkRADIO host comes after the latest YouGov poll put Boris Johnson in a 68 seats lead on Wednesday.

The seat-by-seat poll indicated Boris Johnson’s Tories are on course to end up with 359 seats, securing a hefty majority of 68, with Labour slumping to 211, losing 68 seats in the process. If accurate, the result would be Labour’s second-worst since World War 2, only eclipsed by the 1983 disaster which saw them pick up 209, with Margaret Thatcher’s Tories winning 397. The BBC, citing insiders, suggested Labour was poised to “reshape” its election strategy, having “overestimated” the threat posed by the Liberal Democrats, and “underestimated” the willingness of Leave-backing Labour voters to switch the Conservatives. Consequently, more prominence will be given to shadow cabinet ministers who back a Leave deal rather than those who would prefer to reverse Brexit. DON'T MISS:

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