Campaign catch-up: Farage is back!
Political Fix
Financial Times
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🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s troubled re-election bid has been dealt a fresh double blow, as Nigel Farage seized the reins of Reform UK and announced he would stand as a candidate, while a new poll showed Labour could win the biggest majority of any party in a century. Lucy Fisher picks over the implications with political editor George Parker and politics correspondent Anna Gross. Plus, they talk about the Liberal Democrats’ campaign and the party’s pledge to offer free personal care to older or disabled people at home.
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Presented by Lucy Fisher. Produced by Persis Love. Manuela Saragosa is the executive producer. Original music by Breen Turner. Mix by Simon Panayi. 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. Plot twist. Nigel Farage is back. |
| 0:38.0 | Hello and welcome to political fix from the Financial Times with me Lucy Fisher. I'm delighted to be joined today |
| 0:45.8 | for our first campaign catch-up of the election. We are going up to twice a week |
| 0:50.3 | so we'll be in your feeds on Tuesdays as well as Fridays with my |
| 0:54.2 | F.T colleagues George Parker, hi George, Hi Lucy and Anna cross, hi Hannah. |
| 0:58.9 | Hi Lucy. So Nigel Farage is back George dominated the airwaves the news bulletins the front pages |
| 1:07.4 | tell us your your assessment of the impact of him wading in and taking this role at the forefront of Reform UK's campaign. |
| 1:16.0 | Well, it's a detonative moment in the election campaign. |
| 1:21.0 | Just a few weeks after, or a couple of weeks after he said he wasn't going to be |
| 1:24.6 | taking a leading role in the campaign suddenly he's there at the forefront you know he |
| 1:29.2 | basically couldn't resist the limelight and an opportunity to stick it to the Conservative Party, |
| 1:35.0 | boasting that within a few weeks he thinks that Reform UK will be overtaking the Conservative Party |
| 1:39.8 | in the polls. |
| 1:40.8 | You know, it's an extraordinary moment and just when you thought the campaign couldn't get any the whole press pack of be down on Clackton Pier, the constituency he's going to be fighting. |
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