Hello and welcome to Outrage and optimism I'm Tom Riffic Carnac.

I'm Christina figures.

This week we talk about the general election in the UK called by Rishi Sunac for the 4th of July

and we speak to Tom Stier. Thanks for being here. Oh, So friends it is so nice to see we're in the room together for the first time in a long time

it's lovely to be together we're in London Christina's been in Europe for many weeks actually doing a whole variety of things.

So you came to London for a couple of days of recording.

We've been recording a special series that will be out later in the year. More on that later, but for now we're going to turn our attention

to what's been happening this week and there's been some fairly momentous news in the UK.

So for those of you who may not be aware, there has been a general election called in the UK and it was called by the current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last week

of listening to this when you're listening to this about a week ago and the UK Prime Minister is slightly unusual, has to call an election within five years of the previous general election.

So he has made a decision to call it now in the summer of 2024 and the UK electorate will be going to the polls in

July on July 4th to make a decision on the future of the country. Now the last

thing I'll say before we get into the analysis is that it's worth remembering

Rishi Sunak was not elected as

Prime Minister. The UK has a parliamentary system where the country, where the party with the

majority of members of Parliament, their leader gets to be the Prime Minister, and now there will be a choice between

Rishi Sunak and Kiea Starmat, the opposition leader of the Labour Party.

Now Rishi Sunak has been in office about 18 months, which sounds like not long, but it's actually

quite a long time for a

a British Prime Minister over recent years.

Time could go very slowly.

Time go very slowly.

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