Electioncast: Conservative Defects Again (Again!)
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today, we discuss the latest defection by former Conservative MP Mark Logan.
Adam, Chris and Laura are joined by Jo Coburn, Politics Live presenter, to discuss the ongoing argument within the Labour party about Diane Abbott standing as a Labour candidate. They also discuss Rishi Sunak handling a question from a member of the public about Partygate.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Chris, I've lined up lots of people to keep us company tonight. |
| 0:07.2 | Excellent. |
| 0:08.2 | Joe Kohlburners here from Politics Live. |
| 0:09.5 | Yeah, delighted. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello. |
| 0:11.4 | Hello. Hello. Hello. |
| 0:12.4 | Hello. Hello. The evening. |
| 0:13.0 | I think of you as my lunchtime companion. As daytime. I hope I'm holding up all right in the evening. |
| 0:16.0 | And Laura's here too. |
| 0:17.0 | Hi Laura. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:19.0 | So Angela Rayner is back on the campaign trail |
| 0:22.0 | having been weirdly absent for reasons we can discuss later. |
| 0:26.0 | But she's revealed she's going to have our own Battle Bus. |
| 0:29.0 | So I thought this is an opportunity for us to share Battle Bus stories. |
| 0:32.0 | Everyone must have a Battle Bus story. One thing that has, I've noticed already |
| 0:35.8 | on the battle bus, Ioni Wells, our colleague, she actually delivered her, we call it a rant rant backwards. Actually it was quite queasy even to watch |
| 0:46.0 | never mind do. As she was sort of... |
| 0:50.3 | Laura happy memories of being on the battle buses. |
| 0:53.2 | Well I think I remember actually the first time anyone did alive from a moving bus because |
| 0:57.6 | the technology had moved on so much that was this huge excitement and now it's just |
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