Electioncast: Sunak v Starmer (How Do You Win A TV Debate?)
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Today, Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer face off in the first debate of the election.
Adam is joined by Henry Zeffman, former Boris Johnson adviser Jo Tanner and former Ed Miliband adviser Tom Hamilton to look ahead to the first head-to-head TV debate, and share their stories about how politicians prepare.
And James Cook gives the low-down from last night’s Scottish leaders’ debate.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, we're bringing you an extra episode of newscast to get you ready for tonight's big TV |
| 0:10.3 | event of the general election campaign, the first head-to-head between the two men who could possibly |
| 0:16.0 | be prime minister at the end of this, Ritchie Sunak and Kirstammer. They're going to be on I-TV, |
| 0:21.2 | it's going to be in the northwest of England and it will be quite a clash and there'll be loads |
| 0:26.8 | of cliches because actually even though TV debates are quite a new thing in this country that we've |
| 0:30.8 | only had since 2010, they do have quite a format so we will dig into what's going to be going on, what the challenge is facing the two candidates are, and yes, what cliches you can expect to see. |
| 0:43.2 | The good thing is though about this episode, |
| 0:45.0 | it's not just going to be kind of blow by blow politics. |
| 0:48.2 | We are going to give you the tools |
| 0:49.8 | to be able to watch this debate like a pro. All of that coming up on this episode of |
| 0:55.8 | Newscast. Newscast from the BBC. I agree with Nick where Nick and I are |
| 1:01.7 | agreed. I agree with that Nick I agree with Nick. |
| 1:03.0 | I agree with Nick. |
| 1:04.0 | You go into some dark room with Nick Clegg or someone else. |
| 1:06.0 | Am I tough enough? |
| 1:08.0 | Tough enough? Hell yes, I'm tough enough. |
| 1:09.0 | But there isn't a magic money tree that we can shake. |
| 1:11.0 | End the chaos, the deadlock, let's get Brexit done. |
| 1:14.4 | Well it's complete nonsense, and I may say so. |
| 1:16.8 | Hello, it's Adam in the studio. Very pleased myself that we managed to rustle up some new |
| 1:21.2 | last-minute newscast famous opening titles but with moments |
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