Electioncast: How Many More MPs Will Quit?
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Laura and Paddy are back in the Newscast studio as the party leaders spend the weekend campaigning.
Rishi Sunak met with veterans in his constituency in North Yorkshire as Sir Keir Starmer campaigned in the West Midlands.
Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg & Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Gray with Miranda Slade. The technical producer is Ricardo McCarthy. The social producer is Charlie Henry. 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 | Patrick, when you weren't here last week, abandoning me. |
| 0:07.2 | Well, it was much better last week, I thought. |
| 0:09.1 | Did you listen? |
| 0:10.1 | Then for many weeks. |
| 0:11.1 | I missed you very much. Henry and I talked about food and we talked about what |
| 0:14.8 | newscasters have on Sunday morning breakfast because Kieur Starma had been cooking breakfast |
| 0:19.6 | on a rival broadcast channel. So we were very happy to get newscasters suggestions of what |
| 0:24.6 | they had for breakfast and brunch. But would you like to know now we are in an election |
| 0:29.4 | campaign which also wasn't happening last week what the leaders have to keep going on the trail. |
| 0:35.2 | Yes, I know. I somehow know that Ritchie's certain it will have a sort of energy bar or a |
| 0:40.1 | musly thing. No, he eats cake. He drinks tea all day apparently lots and lots of tea and leaves the bag in. Oh, wow. So it's industrial strength. Kieosteamare apparently drinks coffee and then maybe a bit of tea later on in the day isn't a |
| 0:53.7 | snacker though apparently no sweet tooth just the occasional bag of crisps |
| 0:57.3 | so what do they eat in the height of it all in the middle of the day can't mean obviously |
| 1:02.0 | these people eat something. |
| 1:03.8 | Maybe anything they can get. |
| 1:05.1 | I mean, your summer admitted recently, actually, |
| 1:07.0 | even though he's a vegetarian. |
| 1:08.2 | He'd had a box of chicken at some point |
| 1:10.0 | at the end of a long day. |
| 1:12.2 | Well, whatever they're eating, we were wrong on this cast, this podcast, |
| 1:18.0 | with the date. I was at go long, you had various dates. |
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