Hello and welcome to Oh God What Now back with one of our increasingly frequent bonus

election episodes.

I'm Jacob Jarvis and joining me today is a man who needs little to know introduction,

but he'll get one.

What he doesn't know about British politics isn't worth knowing.

His analysis is always nuanced, incisive, and I would say pretty much

spot on most of the time too. Plus he's a fairly nice bloke as well which makes it a pleasure as always to be joined by

rock and roll politics host Steve Richards. Hi Steve

Hi Steve, thank you for having me. Steve you followed a lot of campaigns in your

time but this one particularly then how have you felt watching it and how did it

maybe feel different to ones of the past?

It's one of the oddest election campaigns I've covered.

I know a lot of people are saying it's a really dull campaign because the party leaders don't have great charisma.

We probably know the outcome, roughly.

The Oddity makes it actually darkly compelling. So there are so many sort of unexpected twists and turns.

Farage saying he wasn't going to stand. He then says he is going to stand. And you have this extraordinary situation of the

Conservative Party that has won elections with its eyes closed in Britain, you know,

from 1979 in power for 18 years and then from 2010,

14 years.

Now worried about whether it will even be the main opposition party. That's extraordinary.

And then you have the prospect if the polls are right and who knows of this massive

labor victory but imbued with quite a kind of cautious program.

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