Electioncast: Chris' Pit Stop and Policy Station

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🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at the final days of campaigning and what the parties’ plans are for the NHS and cost of living.

Adam is joined by Chris Mason from the campaign trail as he’s been speaking to Sir Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak, and they chat about how to cover the final days of a General Election campaign.

And we take a look at some of the key policy areas that matter to voters with the BBC’s Health Editor Hugh Pym and Cost of Living correspondent Colletta Smith. You can search all the party positions on a number of topics on the BBC website here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxeez8271nvo

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Miranda Slade with Gemma Roper and Sam McLaren. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	With just a few hours of the election still to go,
0:07.3	Chris,
0:08.8	Hello, Chris.
0:09.8	Hello, hello from Norton Keynes in the West Midlands,
0:12.1	sort of roughly between Canock and
0:13.8	Litchfield and that's where we are and I'm so I've actually got pins and
0:17.6	needles on my backside we've just got out of our little car where there were three
0:20.8	of us sitting on the back seat and I was sitting in the middle seat.
0:23.6	You know that the middle seat's kind of slightly raised?
0:25.9	Yeah.
0:26.9	And a long stint in that particular position is not good for the posterior I've discovered.
0:32.2	Anyway, I'm now sat on a wall outside a community centre and blood is returning to all necessary parts
0:37.8	Chris, you're always doing the decent thing by other people whether it's taking the middle seat which no one likes doing or I
0:43.8	noticed on your piece on the 10 o'clock news along with loads of
0:46.7	users of social media carrying the tripod. Well you know I think we've all got to do
0:51.1	our fair share of looking about it you know and I we've all got to do our fair share of a looking about
0:52.6	haven't we you know and I quite like the middle seat so I didn't regard that as a
0:56.0	massive imposition although about an hour or a half feet no one likes the middle seat
1:00.8	I quite like it you get a good view straight out the front window. I quite
1:05.2	like that. But also you're sort of at the center of all the conversations because the
1:08.6	conversation is all happening around you so I quite like that although it probably didn't help
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