Electioncast: IT’S ON!
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Rishi Sunak has called the UK General Election for the 4th July.
Adam is joined by Laura Kuenssberg, Faisal Islam and Alex Forsyth to discuss the surprise announcement by the Prime Minister this afternoon.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Earlier today, I spoke with His Majesty the King to request the dissolution of Parliament. |
| 0:10.0 | The King has granted this request and we will have a general election on the 4th of July. |
| 0:17.0 | This election will take place at a time. |
| 0:18.0 | That was the Prime Minister in Downing Street, getting reined on, getting drowned out by protesters playing music but calling a general |
| 0:26.1 | election in the UK so for the last few months British politics we've tried to not |
| 0:31.3 | talk about when the general election is going to be, but let's be honest, it has kind of dominated the conversation, that guessing game. |
| 0:39.0 | The guessing is over now, which means the focus is entirely on the choice that you have on the 4th of July. |
| 0:47.0 | Now the complete irony is earlier on today I was at a podcasting festival with a load of like podcasting fans and also some industry big wigs and |
| 0:56.5 | it was about how the BBC is going to cover the general election in podcasts and all |
| 1:01.2 | morning I was thinking I better come up with like some special |
| 1:04.0 | magic formula for how we're gonna do it what's this how are we gonna do it how we gonna do it and |
| 1:07.7 | then I realize there isn't a magic formula we're just gonna do what we do anyway |
| 1:10.9 | which is you me friends of the podcast the best experts just |
| 1:16.9 | chatting through and working out what has been happening today so that's what we're going to do on this election cast coming to you from |
| 1:26.0 | newscast. |
| 1:26.7 | Newsscast. |
| 1:30.0 | Newsscast from the BBC. Hello, it's Adam in the studio. |
| 1:37.0 | And it's Laura at home. |
| 1:39.0 | Oh Laura, it's how many years that's not true, so yeah. |
| 1:45.0 | Four and four and half. |
| 1:50.0 | And also to help us out, we're joined from Westminster by our friend |
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