TV REVIEW: Heated debate over. Who lost their cool?

SKETCH HARD week at work? Fancied curling up in front of something light? Well, you were out of luck last night as BBC1 cleared its early evening schedule for a two hour Question Time special with the main party leaders. Had this been the usual QT set-up, Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn, Nicola Sturgeon and Jo Swinson would have sat at one table and the show could have been wrapped up in an hour. But because these four do not, in the parlance of the pre-school teacher, "play well together", each was given a separate session before the Sheffield audience. First up was Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. He had the toughest time on anti-Semitism within his party, and groans greeted his initially clear as borscht position on which side he would back in a second EU referendum. But what was this? Suddenly, he took a position. He took a position of having no position, ie of neutrality. Jezza, the Switzerland of Brexit. Next came a barrage of questions from Scots about indyref2. Had a charabanc been organised? Someone commented on Twitter that there were more Scots in the Sheffield audience than in the QT audiences in Scotland. Host Fiona Bruce, announcing that she had "unexpectedly" hit on a seam of Scottish questioners, said enough was enough and moved the debate on. That will go down well. Nicola Sturgeon set about correcting what Jeremy Corbyn said on indyref2, that there would be no green light for at least two years. He won't stick to that in reality, she maintained. If this was a glimpse of how a Labour-SNP relationship would operate, Mr Corbyn is in for some interesting times. "Two down, two to go!" yelled Bruce as Ms Sturgeon exited stage right. Jo Swinson bounded on, to be asked by a fellow Scot if she regretted saying at the start of the campaign t