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This is a global player original podcast. Now at some point in the second half of this year,

we will all go to the polls and make a choice, not just about Conservatives versus Labor, or Sunak versus Stama. It will be a choice

between the future and the past. Our country stands at a crossroads. Over the next few years, from our

democracy to our society, to our economy, to the hardest questions of war and peace, almost every aspect of our

lives is going to change. Rishi Sunak is making no bones about the fact he is properly on

the election warpath right now. And he's setting out the vision of a country which is a dangerous

place. This dangerous world of Rishi means just one thing.

You have to stick with what you know and vote Tory.

But how do you make the argument that you are the future when you have been the past 14 years?

And Rishi Sunak is trying to navigate

between the selective bits of the 14 years

that went okay and forgetting all the bits

that went horribly wrong.

Will that wash?

Welcome to the newsagents.

The Newsagents. It's Emily. It's John. And with everything that's going on right now in the world,

the protests in Tbilisi in Georgia or the circling of Kharkiv in Ukraine by Russia,

it would have been very easy, I think, for Rishi Sunak to get up, make a

speech about this dangerous world we're in and why he was the safer pair of hands.

But instead, we got this very freewheeling, electioneering speech, which tried to encumbers

everything from defence to a Zempec to education.

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