Election 24 Special, Ep 10

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🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Beep beep! The Political Party battlebus stops off to meet five more political talents. Enjoy today's episode with a glass of rioja and a wooden spoon covered in elastic bands. It'll all make sense.

Today's candidates are:

Ed Davey, Liberal Democrats, Kingston and Surbiton

X: @EdwardJDavey

W: https://www.kingstonlibdems.org.uk/ge2024-eddavey/

Rosie Duffield, Labour, Canterbury

X: RosieDuffield1

W: https://www.rosieduffieldmp.co.uk/

James Cracknell, Conservatives,

Colchester

X: @jamescracknell

W: https://www.cracknell4colchester.com/

Tonia Antoniazzi, Labour, Gower

X: @ToniaAntoniazzi

W: https://www.toniaantoniazzi.co.uk/

Ellen Nicholson, Liberal Democrats, Runnymede and Weybridge

X: @EllzSummary

W: https://www.runnymedelibdems.org.uk/ellen4mp

If you are a candidate or know one who'd like to come on the show, email [email protected]

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0:00.0	BP is working to roll out EV charging hubs in the UK and we're keeping oil and gas
0:06.0	flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all that's how BP is backing Britain.
0:11.8	While today we're mostly in oil and gas. We increased the proportion
0:15.8	of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses
0:20.6	from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in 2023.
0:25.8	BP.com slash and not all. Hello and welcome to episode 10 of the political party election 24 special
0:48.8	series 650 candidates to get around at the start of today's show 619 remain by the end just
0:56.2	614 left wow tearing through them and today the political party battle bus rattles into five different
1:04.2	constituencies do get in touch if you're a candidate who would like to come on the
1:07.7	show I'm doing one per constituency so if your opponent beats you to it, you won't get on.
1:13.2	Political Party Podcast at gmail.com and if you know a candidate and you can put me in touch with them,
1:19.1	just put me in touch with them because lots of people very kindly are getting in touch saying would you like to
1:23.6	interview this person the answer is yes if you could just immediately
1:27.2	connect me that would be great because as you can imagine I'm recording a lot of these
1:30.7	every day around everything else and it is a wonderful
1:34.3	wonderful way to experience this election campaign because I don't need to keep saying
1:39.4	it but politics is about people and the different candidates in different seats give you a different
1:46.3	experience of this election because I do find sometimes the national conversation as much as I love
1:50.4	it and I'm fully addicted to it can be quite stressful.
1:55.0	Particularly the stress of, oh my God, is the side I want to win going to win and
2:01.0	when are their lies going to be exposed and why aren't people taking my side seriously or whatever it is on whatever issue?
2:07.5	As a political fan, elections are wonderful. There can also be quite anxiety-inducing.
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