Electioncast: Billionaire Backs Labour

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Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at a billionaire former donor to the Conservative Party who has told Chris Mason he will vote Labour for the first time in his life. John Caudwell, the entrepreneur businessman who founded Phones 4U gave the Tories half a million pounds before the last general election. Caudwell has told Chris that Labour have undergone a “transformation” and that Rishi Sunak is an “absolute dud” in an exclusive interview. And Marianna is back in the studio to talk about the UK Undercover Voters and the political ads they’ve been seeing on their social media feeds. Apply to join us on election night: https://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/newscast-all-nighter You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Gemma Roper and Elliot Ryder. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, Chris.
0:05.6	Hi.
0:06.1	So last week we christened the week Manifestible
0:09.6	or The Many Festival or Manifestingbury
0:12.4	because there were so many party manifestos being launched.
0:14.7	I like manifestingbury. Yeah it's sort of festive isn't it? Yeah. You can imagine like they're being like an
0:19.2	overpriced burger truck. Yes. What should we call this week? Well we're not quite done with the
0:24.7	manifesto yet because we're awaiting the Scottish National Party on Wednesday, but
0:29.6	last week did have the feel of Manifesto Week, something as far as Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems and Greens for England and Wales
0:35.2	were concerned.
0:36.7	We now, I feel like Adam, were in a sort of a slightly odd kind of uh,
0:43.0	I before the storm, is it middle of something?
0:46.0	We're sort of between manifestos
0:48.0	and then what will be the hurdle towards polling day.
0:52.0	That's like the eye of the hurricane where it's all like
0:54.0	and then it's quiet and then it's quiet again. Yeah I think it is a bit I think it is a bit of that because now obviously
0:59.9	you know events nearby and all of that but you know if you're one of the political
1:03.9	parties that has already put out their manifest you can't really start saying a
1:08.3	a we've got a new policy let's announce that because hang on it was it not in that pamphlet you put out last week?
1:14.6	And you can't start saying we're gonna charge around the country
1:18.2	24-7 for the next fortnight because,
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