Catastrophe for Sunak from the jaws of defeat
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Sunak is isolated and facing certain defeat in a General Election as this week’s local results make clear. What is left for the embattled PM as he states catastrophe in the face? Should he go to the country now, or tough it out even as his own party plots against him? And what of Starmer… how much of this week’s election results is down to his political brilliance or the political incompetence of his opposite number? All this and more as the Matts dissect the agitated state of British politics today… enjoy!
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| 0:56.5 | journalism. Hello, I'm Matt Kelly. And I'm Matt Dancona. And this is the two mats for the week |
| 1:01.0 | ending Friday the 3rd of May. The podcast that excels at Southern American accents. The perfect |
| 1:06.9 | skill to have as local election results roll in. You wouldn't think so, but it's true. |
| 1:11.1 | That will all come clear later. |
| 1:12.9 | Or not. |
| 1:13.5 | What did we talk about? |
| 1:14.6 | Well, we had a heavily caffeinated discussion about the local election results, which |
| 1:20.6 | are still coming through, but I think we leapt over the kind of results in total to what they really mean in our opinion. |
| 1:29.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.4 | And we recorded this on Friday morning instead of our usual Thursday afternoon. |
| 1:33.9 | Just so we've got some detail on the level of the disaster. |
| 1:38.5 | So that's the basis of our discussion coming up. |
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