Does this election campaign need to be a bit more dirty?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Election day is two weeks tomorrow. For some that can't come soon enough.
Today - with the help of former Tory Chairman and ad man Lord Maurice Saatchi we assess the state of the campaign and ask how politicians are communicating with the public, and what the public is saying back.
Is there such a thing as a campaign that's 'too nice'? And is this it?
Later, we have the latest The News Agents/More in Common MRP poll and ask what will happen to the SNP and whether the methodology of how pollsters ask questions has changed?
Editor: Tom Hughes
Senior Producer: Gabriel Radus
Producer: Zeynel Can Yuce
Social Media Editor: Georgia Foxwell
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.3 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:12.6 | Before we go to the first question, I have to put to you news that broke exactly an hour ago, Prime Minister, and say, welcome to the studio. |
| 0:17.8 | Thank you for coming in. |
| 0:18.5 | I apologize. Let me say thank you to that. |
| 0:20.0 | Morning, Nick. Nice to be here again. Good to see you, Prime Minister. Inflation returns to the 2% target to the studio. Thank you for coming in. Apologious. Let me say thank you to that. Morning, Nick. Nice to be here again. |
| 0:21.6 | Good to see you, Prime Minister. |
| 0:22.6 | Inflation returns to the 2% target for the first time in almost three years down from 2.3% in the preceding month, 2% in May. |
| 0:30.6 | A reaction on that, if you would, Prime Minister. |
| 0:32.5 | Well, thanks, first of all, for having me back, Nick. And, yeah, look, it's very good news because the last few years have been really tough for everybody. |
| 0:39.4 | I know that. |
| 0:40.1 | And we've had lots of... |
| 0:40.9 | Spare of thought for the Prime Minister this morning. |
| 0:43.0 | He is welcoming in the inflation news that the target has been reached now. |
| 0:48.7 | We are at 2%. |
| 0:50.7 | This longed-for target on inflation with two weeks to go to the election. |
| 0:55.8 | It should be a day for campaign celebration. |
| 0:58.9 | And yet, just an hour or so later, this happened. |
| 1:02.6 | Now, the government telling us that 882 migrants arrived in 12 boats across the channel yesterday. |
| 1:09.9 | That's the latest that we are hearing. |
| 1:11.7 | A massive number in one day, 882 migrants in 12 boats. The latest that we're hearing is a huge |
| 1:19.5 | percentage of those that have crossed the channel so far today are from Vietnam. |
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