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Today in Focus

Election Extra: is it over?

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Conservatives appear to be close to conceding defeat the day before the election. And Archie Bland hands out his campaign awards. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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This is election extra with me Lucy Hoff.

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This evening, concessions of defeat normally come in the early hours on election night,

0:48.7

but this year they've come the day before.

0:51.4

All the polls are pointing to one very clear conclusion tomorrow, a Labour government with a

0:56.8

huge, huge majority.

0:59.3

And if Boris Johnson is the answer, you're probably asking the wrong question but the former

1:04.0

Prime Minister makes a surprise first appearance on the campaign trail. I was glad

1:08.8

when Rishi asked me to help, of course I couldn't say no. Plus we're on the red carpet for an exclusive

1:15.9

election extra award ceremony to honor the winners and losers of the campaign. Well with me is Archie Bland, editor of the election edition newsletter, hi Archie.

1:29.1

Hi Archie.

1:30.1

Well we will be coming to the very first editiones award ceremony very shortly, but first of all,

1:35.2

let's do a quick round up, as it is, unbelievably, the final day of full campaigning.

1:39.7

There has been, I think, the sense for a little while that the election has been over before

1:43.8

it's even begun and that has been compounded even more today.

1:47.4

Yes, notwithstanding a lot of people on the labour side, touching wood and doing every superstitious thing they can to avoid counting their chickens

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