Electioncast: Trump's In Town

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Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

President Trump’s in the UK for the NATO summit, so we called up our favourite America-watcher Emily Maitlis to dissect what that means, if anything, for the election. Plus Jeremy Corbyn says sorry for anti-semitism in the Labour party, and we take a trip to Merseyside to find out what a “Southport Swinger” is. Producers: Harriet Noble and Frankie Tobi Editor: Dino Sofos

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0:00.0	BVC sounds, music, radio, podcast.
0:04.0	Oh, a phone call from producer Dino. Dino, you're on speaker.
0:08.0	Hi, what's this about Christmas decorations?
0:11.0	I just need to get approval from you for the Christmas decorations for the election cast studio.
0:16.0	The earlier things were missed.
0:19.0	It's the third of December. They should have been up two days ago, in my view.
0:25.0	Yeah, I don't think the BVC starts doing Christmas until about the 19th, so...
0:29.0	Yeah, well, okay.
0:31.0	We've got some shiny Christmas boxes empty, but full of potential.
0:37.0	Some Christmas crackers in a range of party colours. All the main parties are covered.
0:42.0	Oh, I got like a furry Christmas deer. That looks pretty nice.
0:48.0	Oh, why don't we start small? I've got some Christmas mugs for me and Chris.
0:53.0	They're like Santa mugs. How about them?
0:57.0	How about as a compromise, we just start with the mugs today and then I'll go to the director general and ask a voice.
1:03.0	Lord Hall, please, when does Christmas start? An election cast land.
1:08.0	Anyway, today's episode starts right now.
1:11.0	Election cast.
1:12.0	Election cast from the BVC. We are in this election because of Brexit.
1:16.0	We don't want to be thinking about flipping general election. We want to be getting out and buying up on Christmas presents.
1:20.0	If anyone comes up to you and says they know what's going to happen,
1:24.0	the cock an eyebrow, smile politely and turn you back.
1:28.0	Hello, it's Adam at Westminster.
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