Campaign catch-up: election-eve predictions and verdicts
Political Fix
Financial Times
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🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Labour is heading for the biggest “landslide majority” Britain has ever seen. That’s the verdict from Mel Stride, one of prime minister Rishi Sunak’s closest ministerial allies, who has in effect conceded defeat ahead of Thursday’s UK general election. Host Lucy Fisher is joined by columnist Robert Shrimsley, political editor George Parker and political correspondent Anna Gross to discuss the campaign strategies of the various parties, and to look ahead to the results.
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Presented by Lucy Fisher. Produced by Manuela Saragosa with Leah Quinn. Audio mix and original music by Breen Turner. The FT’s head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.
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| 0:25.0 | This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. So Anna you've just come off 48 hours of the Tory bus including this 2 30 a.m. start to visit a |
| 0:38.0 | refrigerated warehouse. Thanks for Shih Tuna. How tired are you feeling? |
| 0:42.0 | It was a bizarre experience, quite surreal. |
| 0:44.4 | Robert George, how fatigued you feeling? Or how hyped up for the final sprint? |
| 0:48.6 | Well, we wouldn't be doing this job if we didn't love elections. |
| 0:51.2 | No, look, it's extremely exciting. |
| 0:53.0 | And even though many people think they know the result, |
| 0:55.0 | nobody knows quite what this is going to look like |
| 0:57.2 | and what's going to be remaining |
| 0:58.6 | of the Conservative Party on Friday morning. |
| 1:00.6 | Well, there's lots to pick over as we head into the final hours of the election campaign. |
| 1:06.1 | Welcome to Political Fix, I'm Lucy Fisher, and as you've heard there, we're joined in the studio |
| 1:10.7 | for a round-up of our campaign verdicts by my colleagues George |
| 1:14.4 | Hi George, Hi Lucy Anna, hi Anna, hi Lucy and Robert Shimsley hi Robert |
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