Election battle lines drawn up
Political Fix
Financial Times
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🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Sir Keir Starmer has unveiled his party’s six core pledges ahead of the general election – in the same week that Rishi Sunak claimed the country would be less safe under a Labour government. As both parties kick off their election campaigns, the FT’s Whitehall editor Lucy Fisher is joined by Jim Pickard and Miranda Green to examine the battle lines being drawn up. Plus, the FT’s public policy editor Peter Foster outlines the dangers facing the UK’s university sector if the government decides to axe the graduate visa route that allows foreign students to stay on after graduation.
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Presented by Lucy Fisher. Produced by Audrey Tinline with Leah Quinn. Manuela Saragosa is the executive producer. Audio mix and original music by Breen Turner. The FT’s head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.
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| 1:18.0 | Welcome to a week of election battle lines. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm Lucy Fisher and this is political fix from the Financial |
| 1:24.6 | Times. Coming up, brace for a very long election campaign. We'll hear what each |
| 1:30.8 | side's proposing and to discuss it, I have here in the studio |
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