Electioncast: Pulling pints. And candidates

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BBC

Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

It’s week two of the campaign and we've decided we need to learn some election slang. Laura joins us to discuss Nigel Farage’s announcement that the Brexit Party won’t run in seats won by the Tories in 2017. And our Reality Check team look into the parties’ spending claims.

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:04.0	Hello, election casters.
0:06.2	Do I sound any different to you?
0:08.4	Perhaps more serious, more grown up, a bit more formal?
0:12.7	That's because I am actually wearing a suit jacket in election cast HQ
0:16.6	because we're going to put an edition of the podcast
0:19.9	on the television, live on the BBC news channel.
0:23.4	And we're going to do that most days of the election.
0:27.0	And I thought, seeing someone TV, I should maybe smart and up and wear a jacket.
0:31.4	I don't think it'll last.
0:32.8	Anyway, here's today's episode.
0:34.4	Election cast.
0:35.2	Election cast from the BBC.
0:36.9	We are in this election because of Brexit.
0:40.2	We don't want to be thinking about African-General Election.
0:42.0	We're going to be getting out and buying up some of the presents.
0:44.1	If anyone comes up to you and says they know what's going to happen,
0:47.7	cock an eyebrow, smile politely, and turn you back.
0:52.0	Yeah, welcome to your Monday edition of Alexa, Alexa Cast.
0:56.3	Oh, I've done too many podcasts.
0:58.4	Welcome to your Monday edition of Election Cast.
1:01.4	It's Adam here at Election Cast HQ, joined by Laura here in Westminster too.
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