Electioncast: How SUPER is a Supermajority?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Today, in this podcast recorded live on Radio 4, we’re looking at warnings from Defence Secretary Grant Shapps about a big Labour majority.

Adam, Paddy and Laura also look at Reform UK, which one poll put a point ahead of the Conservatives for the first time.

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg, Adam Fleming and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Hanna Ward. The technical producers were Phil Bull and Frank McWeeny. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, Patty.
0:05.9	Hello, Adam, where are you?
0:07.1	I'm in BBC Radio Merseys, because I'm here to sing Taylor Swift.
0:10.1	Oh, that's exciting.
0:11.3	What are you going to wear?
0:12.3	Just normal clothes clothes I think.
0:14.0	I don't believe that. I don't believe that for you.
0:16.0	You're not going to Taylor Swift in a BBC suit with small checks.
0:21.0	The shirt with small checks. The shirt with small checks.
0:24.0	You'll be in a cowboy hat.
0:26.0	Sequence?
0:27.0	Fringing.
0:28.0	Fringing. What's amazing is how many American people are here
0:31.0	because it's cheaper for them to come and see Taylor Swift in
0:33.3	Liverpool that it is in America. That is bonkers. I mean that's interesting because
0:38.8	I know a little bit about ticket prices for theaters I've often heard Americans say to me when I've been in the
0:45.7	theatre, oh you know it's cheaper here. That's an American accent.
0:50.3	Was it? Taylor Swift, she's a phenomenon.
0:55.0	A phenomenon.
0:57.0	Should we just explain...
0:58.0	She was to explain to people...
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