Election Special: "by and large, the country has moved against the government"
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
It has been a terrible night for the Conservatives who have lost councillors, constituencies, and new Mayoral positions to Labour. Keir Starmer has called this result a sign to move on and for Rishi Sunak to call a general election.
So far the Tories have held onto the Tees Valley mayoral position but Labour have won in Rishi Sunak's backyard. So as the rest of the results continue to trickle in, Rachel Cunliffe, associate political editor, and Ben Walker, senior data journalist, as they analyse what yesterday's elections, and today’s results, tell us about the UK wants from its leadership.
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| 0:35.0 | It has been a terrible night for the Conservatives who have lost councillors, a constituency, and new |
| 0:44.4 | Merrill positions to Labour. Kirstarma has called this result a sign to |
| 0:48.9 | move on and for Ritchie Sunak to call a general election. |
| 0:52.8 | So far, the Tories have held on to the Tees Valley Merrill position |
| 0:56.4 | that Labour have won in Brishly-Sunak's backyard of York and North Yorkshire. |
| 1:00.9 | So as the rest of the results continue to trickle in, join us as we analyze what |
| 1:05.0 | yesterday's elections and today's results tell us about what the UK wants from |
| 1:09.3 | its leadership. Hello and welcome to the new statesman podcast I'm Rachel |
| 1:19.3 | Kunliff associate political editor and joining me down the line is our senior data journalist and |
| 1:24.2 | polling expert Ben Walker Ben welcome. Thank you for having me. We're recording |
| 1:28.9 | this podcast at about 3 p.m. on Friday the 3rd of May so results are continuing to come in but there |
| 1:34.7 | was already so much for us to discuss. Ben how much sleep did you get last night? |
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